Rios's chin is cracked.

Not just his chin, his body has given up. Years of in ring punishment, hard training and bad nutrition have done their job.

 

Yeah I'm glad we had that ref who is "quick" to stop fights. If Smoger was in there the fight wouldve continued, leaving Rios KO'd clean unconscious.

Hopefully Rios still has enough to fight Ortiz

 

Rios needs to fight Ortiz and call it a day.

 

His slurred speech last night didn’t sound right either.

 

Ortiz would KO him.

 

If Grandpa Garcia really cares about Bam Bam, he’ll BEG him to retire. If he can’t convince him to retire, he’ll do the honorable thing and leave him to someone else. Under no circumstance should he accept any money from Bam Bam.

 

His chin is as strong as it has ever been. How many solid punches did Garcia land that would have fell other opponents much earlier? Believe me, if the ref would have let that fight continue, Rios would have pushed the pace even more.

Rios' brain damage ... that's more worrying. If his manager/promoter is any kind of friend he should implore Rios to retire.

 

That's a good fight...... Can't expect these guys to hang the gloves up and you'd be lying if a CTE inducing matchup like that doesn't pique your interests just a tad bit.

 

Smoger is the guy who stopped Khan-Malignaggi where some other refs would've let the death by a thouand jabs play out. I wouldn't characterize him as a gratuitous violence guy. He likes to give guys a chance, but his discernment in determining where to draw the line in each matchup is plenty keen enough. I'm quite sure he would've stopped Garcia-Rios at the same point Bayless did, with Rios unable to walk forward steadily.

 

He's one of the modern/active poster boys for a chin betraying a fighter after years of hard abuse, weight draining and ballooning, with weight jumping to really compound it all.

 

Did it really betray him, though? He spent 8 rounds walking through right hands and left hooks with a jack-o'-lantern grin, particularly right hands (and Danny's right has always been a somewhat underrated punch, stuck in the shadow of his signature left hook).

When I think of a fighter's punch resistance betraying him, I think of examples like Coyle-Katsidis, where a guy is badly hurt by a shot he once would've absorbed without so much as a grimace. Rios shook off a lot of good, hard shots with barely a halt in his tracks. And I'd say body shots had as much to do with the finish as anything, slowing him right up by the 9th and bringing on the proverbial laziness that allowed Danny to dollop all his mustard onto that final home run right.

 

Yeah...I'm now worried for the first time ever that he might actually lose the grudge match with Ortiz.

 

He would definitely lose the grudge match with Ortiz. Best not to take that fight as a loss to such a hated rival is a bitter pill to have to swallow. Think Vargas vs DLH

 

He still has enough left to beat Jeff Horn IMO