Much too cavalier like it was a sparring match. It may have looked like good boxing, but he let his man hang around and he paid the price for it. Next time he'll think better of carrying his man and go for the KO with more on his shots. And for the love of all things holy, somebody teach the man what to do when you get hurt. He looked like a rag doll up against the ropes getting pummeled. 11-1 favorite....sheesh.
Grachev telegraphed it all and never moved his head Atlas was right Sillakah could have stepped in and beat him to the punch but backed up rather than capitalized
I agree with everything you said...... Good post. But what ever happened to giving a downed fighter an 8-count.... then if he's still on ***** street, call it off. I'm not trying to say Sillahk would have recovered... I don't think he would have. But too many refs are way too quick to end a fight without at least starting a count. I'm sickened with the state of boxing nowadays, mainly due to inept regs and shitty judges.
In regard to the 8-count, the ref probably thought he had taken too much punishment along the ropes. Smoger would've let it continue, but he's in the Ukraine right now for the Malignaggi fight. I agree with your thoughts on the state of boxing, but last night's ESPN fights are what make it great and interesting.
He probably did take too much punishment already....... and I guess I'm more pissed off with the state of boxing right now than the actual stoppage. If all refs were so quick to stop fights, we would never have great comebacks, like Corrales-Castillo or Maidana-Ortiz.
I saw it now and even though I usually don't take it from Teddy, I am gonna follow what he said correctly - he had a statement to produce yesterday in Texas and he showed his skills as a NABF former Champ but too thoughful, too careful, too selective and basically not on the top level technically, picked his punches against a former kickboxer who couldn't jab but telegraphed his punches and left that chin up there like one messenger foretold high up there like in a flagpole so he got caught and worst than that, could not deal with the assault, duck, slide, tie him up, nothing, a sitting duck and I am sorry to say another hypejob.
And the Gatti Ward fights all wouldve been stopped in the first rds. I hate it too. I don't like to see guys seriously hurt for the most part, but a young fighter like Sillahk needs to have his recovery skills tested and it's not like he's taken very many beatings in his career for the ref to think he's at risk. Back in the day, the ref would've started an eight count when he was taking unanswered shots. If he was incoherent or unfit to continue after the count, he'd then wave it off before he ever went down.
Agree 100%. Sillakh seemed to be going through the motions and was content to coast to an easy UD instead of stepping on the gas and getting his guy out of there. He paid the price for it too, hopefully he learned from this.
And it hurts him even more than just losing because now his opponents know he doesn't have much of a chin and will test him by coming forward throwing more shots. I think a lot of his opponents didn't want to risk doing that before but now that may change. Had he won by impressive KO (which I believe he could've done), he'd be in line for a pretty big fight. Now he's basically starting over.
