HBO, Fire Lennox.

Apart from having almost no punching power to stop Hatton - he was doing **** all! McGirt, rightfully, let him know between rounds that if he didn't show something, he'd stop the fight.

The 11th starts, and what happens? Pauli runs backward, gets low, covers up, still is 100% survival mode and shows no initiative no throws any punch. So McGirt stopped the fight as he said he would.

I can understand Malinnagni's anger, but it was a sensible decision.

 

Agreed. It's not just that Paulie lacked the firepower to turn it around, it's that mentally he didn't seem to be able to dig himself out of the hole.

He was plenty pissed when it was stopped but really, he'd stopped a few rounds before. He still had the chance in his hands to continue but had ran out of ideas apart from "hang on for dear life".

 

Uh..... a smart one.:good

 

idiot, why suffer further neuronal damage when the fight is dead in the water??

u may have balls in ur underwear, but no brains in ur head!

 

I don't remember many people saying that when Bute fought Andrade. In fact, many people protested the fight wasn't stopped with Bute still on his feet in the last 30 seconds of the fight, after he dominated the whole fight and was miles ahead on the scorecards.

 

Pauline quit. He was given the choice of fighting back or having it stopped and chose the later.

 

You sound like a ******.

 

If Maliganngi hadn't STOPPED FIGHTING then his corner wouldn't have thrown in the towell. This has nothing to do with Lennox Lewis.

 

u dumb, dumb ****

ur post is so dumb i just felt like posting again....

 

I agree with Lennox, Paulie was in survival mode and had no chance in hell of knocking Hatton out and Hatton was hitting at will.

Brian Vera's corner should of done the same, after a while it was just Vera getting beat up for a few rounds.

 

Actually Lennox was right,it was the right thing to do.

 

Lennox was spot on, Buddy was spot on. Malignaggi's fate was firmly in his own hands, he was told several times the fight would be stopped if he kept getting hit and not returning anything back. I never heard Paulie say not to or anything remotely like.
The Cotto fight he got his ass bust up more yeah, but he was winning rounds, this however was about as 1 sided as it gets and Hatton was coming on strong, he wasn't fading and looking to get stopped, he was pressing to close the show.
Consider the alternative that he fights on and Paulie gets hurt bad... then what? It's McGirts fault for letting him. Even if he made the final bell he'd have suffered an embarrassing 1 sided beat down against someone who he'd had zero respect for in the buildup (going as far as calling him a vlub fighter), but now attention can be shifted from Hatton's impressive win to how the fight should or should have not been stopped. I think 119-109 on all the cards. A 'Lacying'

 

Lewis is entitled to his opinion but personally I think it was a terrible & utterly disgraceful stoppage.


Botswana :smoke

 

This is outrageous. How dare you Lennox Lewis.

I would like to have seen both fighters given spears after the 11th round to gouge each others ****ing eyes out. Just like real men.

When theyve stabbed each other to death I wanted to see Joe Frazier and George Foreman get into the ring with handguns and try to take each other out.
No bullets.
This should be done like men! Men with balls! Pistol whipping each other into bloody pulps while we watch with our popcorn.

The winner must then get his balls out to prove he hasnt got a *****.

That is what I would have like to have seen.

And if that wimp Lennox Lewis dares suggest the referee/corner should step in I will go mental!!!

(Oh yes. All commentators should be able to do 100 press ups. Like men.)

 

I disagree with this, as well as the original poster.

Boxing is NOT like other sports. This isn't a game where an injury can merely sideline you for a bit or at worst, end your career...boxing kills people, and a good number of them. This is literally a sport of organized fistfighting.

For Tyson 2005 to suggest that Buddy McGirt is a *** for letting his fighter...a guy who cannot punch on the elite level and stands no chance of taking anything but further beating from a respected puncher...sit there for 2 extra rounds of punishment is just an immature opinion from someone who must not box.

Boxing HURTS. If you haven't stepped in that ring and realized just how hard these guys punch, and how much any single punch actually takes out of you in there, then you cannot have an educated opinion on what constitutes bravery. Anyone, even first-timers, who steps in the ring has bravery, moreso than your average man and certainly more than the average keyboard warrior.

And as brave as the fighters are...their cornermen possibly moreso! They are the guys who have to live with the guilt of what they COULD have done to save a fighter, if he does in fact get hurt, if he ends up brain damaged, punch-drunk, or dead afterwards. They are the ones must deal with breaking a guy like Paulie's heart and pride because they didn't want to see him take damage that could end his career.

Boxing is a hurt business, and Lennox Lewis was right on this.

If you question this...do a little test at home...punch yourself in the face, just once, as hard as you can, right on the nose. Now imagine that x10, and roughly 200 times over the course of 30 minutes.