**Good stoppage by Smoger...**

If you watch closely, Taylor was caught with a left hook right right before the ref jumped in. At that point his hands dropped and he started to slump toward the canvas. Taylor was no longer defending himself at this point. Pavlik threw another left hook right as the ref dove in between them, so it hard to tell if it connected. Also there was no standing 8 count in the rules, when the ref intervened, Taylor was still standing but slowly sinking to the canvas and once there he made no attemp to get up. When Pavlick was knocked down, he was still defending himself and got knocked on his a$$, and immediately got up and acknowledged the ref. Taylor just sat there with a glaze look over his eyes.

I hope I'm making some sense to the people who thought Taylor didn't get the benefit of the doubt when the fight was stopped.

 

Actually it was that last left hook, he was still defending himself after the uppercut. When the left hook connected, his hands just dropped and he started to sink to the canvas. Watch it closely.

 

smoger did an excellent job. if you waych him when taylor got pinned in the corner, he was focused completely on taylor, and you could tell that he wanted to give taylor the opportunity to show that he was still there. he stepped in at the perfect point. he did not see what he wanted from taylor, and he responded like a good referee should. he stopped the fight after taylor was clearly done, but before he was seriously hurt.

 

Smoker did a fablous job of not interfering with REALITY:good

Fanatastic Job and thats REAL:yep

 

I think Taylor didn't go down easy. The damage done to his face showed that he took some really bad ****. I thought that one of his cheekbones may have been broken.

Smoger is a spartan type referee and he's going to let the fight go on as long as possible. He saw something that made him wave it off. Smoger was close enough to the action where he could see pupil size, eye movement etc. that I can only guess at.

 

IMO that was a good stoppage, if u look at the replay in slow motion when taylor got hot with that last left hook while goin down u can see his hands just slump down, kind of reminded me when green ko'ed jadon codrington. his hands just dropped and he was not able to defend himself...smogler will let fighters fight till the end or until he can clearly see that a fighter is done...

 

I did, his hands were already up and stayed up after the uppercut in defense. But after the left, hands came down and his slow decent began to the canvas. The uppercut hurt him, but it wasn't the finishing punch.

 

what's there to count for? he obviously wasnt standing even if you gave a 50 count..and he didnt have that state of mind to even think of taking a knee...nice job by the ref.

 

it was a good stoppage

 

Yes Taylor was totally out of it and was not getting up.

 

I hate to say it, but :good