Something was just off about this fight. And when Mercante stepped in and stopped the fight with 30 seconds left when Akavov wasn't even hurt and then he kept trying to grab Akavov around the neck. It was though he trying to get Akavov to throw a shot at him. The commentators kept saying throughout the fight how Andrade hasn't been able to stop average fighters, that he needs to up his game if he wants to take it to the next level, and then you have Mercante step in and deliver a stoppage for Andrade. At times things just stink in boxing. Mercante should be carefully scrutinized over his behavior tonight.
You can already hear the rhetoric Mercante created due to his ridiculous stoppage. "And in his last fight Andrade stopped a tough Russian who had never been stopped before." What a bunch of crap.