should referees just let the fight continue on a close 10 count?

rapscalion · Oct 19, 2014

If you're knees are off the canvas at 10, even if you are not completely up I think you should be able to continue. He would have got knocked out later and I think he purposely took that long to get up to get out of the fight

iceman71 · Oct 19, 2014

BlueBottle said: ↑

Ok, I wanted to see more of the fight but the referee counted Rubio out tonight. It seems to happen quite often now where the fighter who isn't that hurt tries to time the 10 count, but the referee seems to not give the benefit of the doubt and count them out. To me this scenarios is similar to a football game when you see the play clock reaching zero and simultaneously the ball is snapped. It seems to me a football referee always give the benefit of the doubt to the team and not calling a penalty.

So for tonight, Rubio was down but OK so he tried to take as much time as possible and the referee should have recognized the situation and let the fight continue and really no one would have complained or questioned the referee's judgement.
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yeah for the love of god use some common sense and let the guy go one more time....this isnt some 4 round prelim

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