Did public scoring cause the ending?

i think he was too busy getting beaten up.

 

If it did it was good for his health because he had no chance of winning by KO or on points.

 

I think the repeated power punches concussing his brain is what did him in. That and being utterly dominated for 8 straight rounds, that might have been a factor also

 

Nope, he just wasn't in the fight, Klitschko was completely dominating that Peter didn't even land a single solid punch to convince his self he's in this. He was just fighting totally crap, Peter would usually follow and throw punches, he would do whatever it takes to land some and show he's still in there as he did against Wladimir. He just did nothing tonight and was standing on the outside, somewhere he ISN'T supposed to be, he needs to keep it close yet instead he kept doing the same thing over and over, Vitali just took advantage of it and the result was clear.

 

Every time he tried to land he walked right into that jab or left hook though that just completely put him off balance, and unlike Wlad who would tie him up Vitali just kept throwing whenever he tried to walk him down.

That must have been so disheartening... i felt sorry for Peter there.

 

Peter was losing round after round, I think Vitali just took all the fight out of him.

 

If Peter was deluded enough to think he was actually in the fight before hearing the scorecards, he was already screwed.

 

peter had mentally lost the fight two months ago

 

No, Sam Peter's vaginal bleeding caused the ending.

 

And Peter was supposed to be the savior of the HW division...

 

I see your point, but I think deep down in a situation like that a fighter already knows he'll need a KO to win. In theory, it should make for better fights because the losing fighter should fight more urgently. When a fighter chooses not to continue after hearing the scorecards, I think that that's just a sign of lack of heart or that he's already so demoralized, there's no self confidence he can actually come back and win. So he just says "screw it".

Peter felt that he didn't have a good enough of a chance for the KO to justify the beating he took and just didn't want to be there. I can't say I disagree with his assessment, but it would've been nice to see him go out on his shield and at least go balls out for 1 or 2 rounds to at least try to win first.

 

I see your point, but I think deep down in a situation like that a fighter already knows he'll need a KO to win. In theory, it should make for better fights because the losing fighter should fight more urgently. When a fighter chooses not to continue after hearing the scorecards, I think that that's just a sign of lack of heart or that he's already so demoralized, there's no self confidence he can actually come back and win. So he just says "screw it".

Peter felt that he didn't have a good enough of a chance for the KO to justify the beating he took and just didn't want to be there. I can't say I disagree with his assessment, but it would've been nice to see him go out on his shield and at least go balls out for 1 or 2 rounds to at least try to win first.

 

open scoring totally killed that fight ... i'm pretty sure that Peter wouldn't have been discouraged if he didn't know what the official scoring was.

its bad on both sides ... its not good that vitali knew what the score was either.