Mayol is a cheating scumbag

This is in response to the Mayol congratulations thread:

Controversy over Mayol win
Sosa camp cries foul

“The only way Rodel Mayol could beat me was by intentionally fouling me. He should have been disqualified,” says disconsolate former champion Edgar Sosa who lost his WBC belt on Saturday in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico by a very controversial TKO in the second round to Filipino challenger Rodel Mayol. Sosa, who was making his 11th defense, is in the hospital with a fractured cheekbone, the result of a clear head-butt on the part Mayol. Although Sosa, now (37-6, 21 KOs), was bleeding and clearly dazed, ring doctor Ibarra allowed the fight to continue and the Filipino boxer took full advantage of the situation, scoring two subsequent knockdowns that forced Referee Robert Ramirez to stop the fight and declare Mayol (26-4-1, 20 KOs) the winner.

Sosa manager Jacques Deschamps had this to say about the outcome: “This is the third fight in a row which Mayol is involved in that ends in a controversial manner, with injuries to his opponent provoked by his head. The fact is that referee Ramirez took a point away from Mayol, which proves that it was an intentional, vicious, head-butt.”

About his condition after the head-butt, the former champion commented: “I was really out on my feet and I couldn’t breathe. I had no time to recuperate.”

The Sosa camp is adamant about their intention to file a protest with the WBC: “The result has to be changed to a non-contest because the intentional head-butt clearly provoked the final outcome. We are calling for a rematch once Edgar recuperates and, I assure you, Sosa will demonstrate who is the real champion. We have in our hands the videos and photos to show the un-sports-man-like actions of the challenger,” adds Deschamps.

 

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I’m still in shock over the ending to the Edgar Sosa-Rodel Mayol light-flyweight title fight in Mexico tonight.

When you talk about travesties in boxing, this was one of the worst you will ever see — and it happened on Sosa’s home ground in Tuxtla Gutierrez.

Everyone will have read about this crazy ending by now. For those who didn’t see it, let me briefly set the scene.

Mayol was fighting strongly and confidently but Sosa, always a somewhat slow starter, was boxing in his usual cool, measured manner when suddenly, in round two, Mayol came in with head lowered and the top of his crewcut skull smashed into Sosa’s face, sending the champion to the canvas on hands and knees.

The fight should have been waved over immediately and ruled a no decision. It would have been disappointing to the crowd and viewers watching on Televisa in Mexico and worldwide on the internet, but it would have been the appropriate decision.

Yet the Puerto Rican referee Roberto Ramirez Jr., after deducting a point from Mayol, waved the boxers to continue.

Of course, the Filipino Mayol, a very good puncher, steamed right through the still-shaken Sosa and overwhelmed him with a barrage of blows to bring the referee’s intervention.

This was absolute madness. Where was the five-minute break to which a boxer is entitled after being fouled (accidentally or otherwise)? Why didn’t Sosa’s corner remonstrate with the referee and seek to buy some time for their fighter? In this situation a quick-thinking and experienced cornerman can save the day. Of course, I can think of a few fighters who would surely have bailed out had they been in Sosa’s position, who would have said they could not continue — and no one could have blamed them.

I think that Sosa was too proud (or maybe too dazed) to comprehend fully what was going on. His trainer should have been screaming at the referee, doing everything possible to get the fighter some desperately needed minutes of recovery time.

Let me tell you, I was astonished to the point of disbelief when Ramirez gave the signal to box on. Sosa’s ability to fight had been seriously compromised. As soon as I saw his legs as he tried to move away from Mayol, I knew he had no chance of getting through the round — the collision had taken him completely out of the contest.

How can incidents such as this be allowed to happen in boxing? WBC president Jose Sulaiman and his son Mauricio were at ringside. Shouldn’t they have called over the referee as soon as Mayol’s head had hammered Sosa to the floor and conferred with the official? Trust me, that is what Larry Hazzard would have done when he was New Jersey boxing commissioner and that’s what Marc Ratner would have done when he was executive director of the Nevada commission.

Why can’t boxing get things right?

For Sosa, getting knocked down by a full-impact head butt was worse than if he had been dropped by a punch — he might even have been mildly concussed.

I can’t blame Mayol for seizing the moment and going in to finish off his stricken opponent — that’s his job.

However, I do blame Sosa’s corner, the referee and the WBC for allowing a fighter to continue when clearly he was in no position to defend himself.

Had the fight taken place in Manila, the Mexican faction would have been protesting loud and long about being victims of a fiasco in the Philippines, yet this farce occurred in their own country.

Seeing is believing, but I still can’t believe what I witnessed in that Mexican ring this Saturday night. Poor Sosa. Poor boxing, come to that. Only in boxing can this sort of thing happen so consistently.

A great British comedian of years ago, Arthur Askey, had a famous catch phrase that was once in wide currency in the U.K. and which sums up my feelings about tonight's fight. In Arthur's immortal words: “Doesn’t it make you want to spit?”

 

It's a coincidence that Mayol's head is responsible for stopping 3 straight fights? That has to be a record.

 

Thanks for posting the video Cash.

Watch at 2:10 of the video. Mayol ducks his head low to the point he's staring at the ground, and THEN throws a punch while lunging forward. He pivots his head in a full swivel like a punch.

An accident? Give me a ****ing break.

 

Oh god *******s are apparently ******ed about everything involving the Phillipines, not just Pacquiao himself.

Mayol's punch went nowhere and hit nothing. His head was actually ahead of his arms! He had a long reach with his head than his arm. He pivoted full force into Sosa.

God you people are ****ing stupid. And you have small penises.