matthysse vs corley... when would you have stopped this

He didn't look like he was hurt too bad.
A lot of times he was complaining about being pushed down instead of actually going down from a punch.

 

I would have stopped the fight at the moment signatures were just about to be written . No point in Corley fighting anymore , he is at least 5 years past his prime.

 

The stoppage was fine where it was.

Corley never really went down from a clean brain-scrambling headshot, so he was able to recover and beat the count fairly easily each time. With the heart he showed doing so you have to give him the benefit of the doubt to some extent. Those body shots clearly hurt like a son of a *****, though. At a certain point it was just the merciful thing to do calling an end to the beating.

As for being "pushed" down...whatever. There are a couple times he just went down to his hands and knees under a barrage of fistic hailstones rather than a single punch but at no point did Matthysse push him to the canvas. Besides, there were still half a dozen knockdowns where you could clearly identify the one punch that caused it - a vicious left hook to the body.

Of the 9 knockdowns in the fight maybe 2 or 3 were Corley simply going down while cornered or trapped without taking a flush left hook to the body (these are the ones people are interpreting incorrectly as "pushes" - see the one at the start of round 7 where Corley is already going down and Matthysse pushes down on the back of his neck. That was ALREADY a knockdown before the pushing started.)

Then there are times where Corley went down from physicality but weren't ruled knockdowns as they weren't from punches, that don't even count among that official 9 (see where he goes down at the beginning of round 6; it's ruled a slip).