Raymond Ford Delivered!

under some rules a fighter cannot be saved by the bell in any round

 

One of the best live fights I’ve ever seen. Kholmatov and Ford delivered last night.

 

You are right, my bad. I reversed it.

I scored it 9-2 prior to the 12th. Even if that round had been a 10-7, I'd have had Kholmatov winning 115-111.

 

What's your point

 

It was a fine call plenty of fights get stopped for turned fighters

 

No, it was not.

 

Agree to disagree, dude was done

 

We agree to disagree, yes, but the guy was not done, since he should have been count 8 and there were only 7 seconds left. The guy had won the fight and was robbed.

 

No standing 8 count

 

It was not a standing count, since the ropes stopped him from falling. It was a legit KD. He should have been counted, and the referee robbed him.

 

It's rarely called. Probably could've been called when ford's jab sent him hard into the ropes prior to the slip call

That said dude staggered across the ring had his back turn and was getting hit. He didn't give the ref much choice. Should have taken the knee

 

It is not rarely called. It is the rules, simple as that. The only thing that the referee had to do was to apply the rules: when a fighter is hit and the only reason why he is standing is the ropes holding him, then it is considered a KD. In a KD he has to count 8 and see if the fighter respods properly.

Instead of that (applying the rules) what he did was to rob him the fight. It is quite disgusting to witness, tbh.

It was very easy, as I said, "apply the rules". It was THAT simple.

 

Standing knockdowns with the ropes holding a guy up are rarely called. Kind of like a 10-10 round or a 10-8 no knockdown round

All I'm saying is the guys back was turned after being staggered and defenseless hardly a bad call at that point. Maybe the ref could have counted but he didn't

People are pretending like this is some crazy call and I just don't see it that way.

You are a good poster you make good points we just disagree no biggie

 

There was only one legitimate KD in the fight, and the ref didn't call it. It was before Ford threw Kholmatov to the canvas. The ropes held Kholmatov up.

The only thing the ropes did when Kholmatov was running was keep him from running off the ring. Yes he was hurt, and yes he was stumbling, but he was not falling down.

Good call on the ref.

 

Ofc he was falling down, if not for the ropes he would have fallen. And that's a legit KD, whether you guys like it or not.