Again, I was going by YOUR logic. You've yet to convincingly explain how it's different - and I take it it's because you can't. Admit defeat, you're a laughing stock.
Well, what about Nigel Benn? What does he have to do with the price of tea in China? We weren't talking about Nigel Benn, we were talking about how the Hopkins-Johnson fight isn't the best parallel to draw with the Rubio-Lemieux fight. For a number of reasons.
Stop embarrassing yourself Lemieux got stopped in his first real test,and you compare Lemieux to Glen Johnson Glen Johnson was never stopped on his first real shot.:hi:
And I accepted that it may not be the best reference, which is why I used the Benn example. My debate isn't with you.
First real shot? So are you actually saying that Lemieux had never before taking any sort of punch before in 25 fights until the 7th round of the Rubio fight. I just need to clarify that you're actually that stupid. And what about Nigel Benn then, also stopped with his first step up. There are tons of examples out there of it happening, it means **** all right now.
Nah, AL is kinda right here. Losing for the first time doesn't necessarily **** up one's career. Indeed, it's often that losing ends up being a good experience, so long as the losing fighter can learn from his mistakes and come back. Giving up on a fighter, or calling him a "hypejob" or "exposed" or what have you, is just silly. The best fighters ever lost fights, lost a lot of them, and were still great. I think it's silly to just up and give up on David Lemieux at this point. I mean, look at Amir Khan. KO1by Prescott, and he's gone on to do some pretty good stuff so far. Lemieux's career isn't over, not so long as he can learn from this fight and take what he learned into his next fight, he'll be fine. I mean, let's face it; MW isn't exactly the hottest division ATM or for the forseeable future...
Lemieux has the power but Martinez is a boxer; Lemieux would never land on Martinez at this point; thing with Lemieux is that he has another 13-14 years till he has Martinez's age.