Regardless of an obvious injury, and a retirement of an exciting fighter, props to Austin for coming in shape like a professional. I still think he would have been drained if the fight would have lasted (just too much weight loss), hopefully this will signal the other heavies to treat it like a job.
Guys are ******s calling Austin a bum. Guy has fought competitively with decent fighters by today's standards. So unless S Ibragimov is a bum, Austin ain't. Austin is a fringe contender/contender in today's era and a journeyman in another era.
Any word on how or when he hurt his arm? He starts looking at his arm :38 into the fight, but I didn't see anything prior to that where noticably injured it.
You need to just leave the trolls and morons to themselves. Because of the ease that Wlad disposed of Austin, he is then branded as terrible when the fact remains Austin is just as good as any heavyweight contender but will never be champ from the past 20 years.
Well, my friend, giving Austin credit as a good fighter would be indirectly giving Wlad credit as an excellent fighter. The Wlad haters on this board just won't let that happen.
It must have been, though there was no apparent trauma. I guess it's just the old man's body breaking down.
Austin start his boxing career 1998 and his 20th fight was 2002 so he was no neither journeyman or contender before that. Definetly his not real world champ material...