Stevie Johnston Was Just Knocked Out BADLY

Somewhat sloppy prospect? Cherry has been around for quite some time and is a decent enough fighter. Sad to see Johnston laid out like that. I hope he is ok and calls it quits at this point. I hate to see faded fighters hang around to get hurt further.

 

I wouldn't say Cherry is a "sloppy prospect," he's been around awhile and isn't bad.

Johnston, however, is completely shot, has been for awhile, and is yet another sad story in the sport. Great fighter in his day--those days are long gone.

 

Cherry is a good fighter, and has proved that. John stop appears to be o.k., but his head banged off the mat very hard and it was a scary sight. I hope Johnston finally calls it a career.

 

johnston should call it quits. cherry isnt sloppy at all. he was never unconscious. he was just really out of it. he should keep his health and call it a career. he had a great run

 

Am I the only one angry at both Stevie's corner and Cherry for the way that fight ended? Johnston had nothing left after the beating he took in the ninth. The fight should have been stopped between rounds. Then after backpedaling and giving every impression he's running out the clock, Edner throws the 1-2 he should have thrown in round 2, and almost causes a ring emergency.

At that point in the fight with the way he'd been fighting, that punch wasn't necessary. And as for the "he's a young fighter making a name for himself" argument, you don't make a statement by letting a shot old warhorse take you ten rounds, so the opportunity was gone in any case.

That KO was about one half step short of a ***** move in my book.

 

I understand wat ur sayin but its not cherrys fault. he had him in front of him and hit him with the left jab and right as he was doing the whole fight.

 

Huh??? Are you serious? Johnston's corner or the ref could have stopped the fight at anytime. Cherry's responsibility is to fight. The punch was vicious but it was clean. In the ring, you get the opponent out of there any way you can.

No one wants to see Johnston down like that, but it sure as hell wasn't Cherry's fault the fight continued.

 

I know... I actually like Cherry's story, plus he always comes to fight, so I won't hold it against him or anything. But the end to that fight was handled badly all the way around.

 

pretty much. its up to cherry to end the fight if the opponent is in front of him. end of story

 

Nah, and it's not his fault Johnston is shot and went down the way he did. But 24 seconds left in a fight he's winning nine rounds to one, then that happens. No judge was going to rob him after seeing that fight. If Johnston had been seriously hurt on national TV behind a KO at that meaningless point in the fight, it's bad all around for everyone involved, including Edner.

Of course a huge portion of what happened comes back to Stevie's condition and a bad decision from the corner. In the end, the only point I'm trying to make here is that situations like that are very dangerous for the sport.

 

You can blame the promotional aspect and TV primarily for that. And then the corner. They never take enough blame for those situations.

From an American perspective, Leavander Johnson and Jeff Lacy both should have been pulled out of fights by their corner in the past few years. And Carlos Quintana had to basically beg his corner to let him quit against Cotto.

And sure enough, he didn't take any more punishment and now is a titlist.

I was afraid Stevie was going to get dealt with tonight, which is why I couldn't work up enough enthusiasm to drive to the fight.

 

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Corners need to remember it's their fighters' responsibility to fight balls to the wall round after round, not theirs. It's the corner's responsibility to say when he's had enough and protect him from career (and tragically in Johnson's case, life) ending beatings like that. You can't have your guy be a warrior with no quit in him if you're not going to look out for him when the going gets ugly.

 

its boxing, get over it. i pay to see KOs.