Team Uzcategui stunned by Maryland Commission decision

The Maryland commission must be a real joke then, there is no reason to ever lift that jokers ban. They should then reverse the decision of a DQ loss against Uzacategui to a no contest.

 

Boxing is justified as it's a terrific way of promoting 'respect' and 'discipline'.

He showed none of those two things that night!


Such a bizarre and bad decision.....One that only brings negative press to the sport.

 

I spoke up on this the day it happened. We don't know the entire story and how can we completely pin the blame on him when it was Uzcategui who repeatedly hit Dirrell after the bell. He thought his nephew was being assaulted so that's why he reacted the way he did.

What he did was wrong, don't get me wrong. However, it does NOT warrant a permanent ban. Perhaps a 1 year suspension was the right call.

 

Something tells me you wouldn't be saying this if the perpetrator was Loma's uncle, instead of Dirrell's, am I right?

 

Now I could understand this argument if Dirrell was still being 'Assaulted'.....But he wasn't.

It was a cowardly cheap shot.

 

The punch landed after the bell, and he had hit after the bell a couple times prior to that as well. That has no bearing on Lawson though. The suspension shouldn't be lifted.

 

"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."

(Cistatey gets that, anyone else?)

 

I rest my case which is actually your case, but I was thinking it

 

I disagree, he clearly hit him twice 1-2 secs after the bell (Although it was in combination). Uncle Lawson treats his nephew like his own son, so can you really blame him? If you had a daughter or a son and you saw someone hitting after the bell, I doubt you would sit ringside and do nothing.

It was very similar to Mayweather/Judah when Roger walked through the ropes in the ring. It's that kind of love.

 

Trust me, I'm not. I've been saying what he did was 100% wrong and Uzcategui's punch after the bell was in combination so it was hard to really pull it back because it was in the heat of the moment. I get that.

He already got charged, isn't that enough? IMO, there's really no need to take the man's means of making a living away from him, he did it because of his love for his nephew, and as someone who loves his family - I can kind of see it in his perspective as well.

I don't think a permaban is necessary in that case. He got charged, served a lengthy suspension, and I think that should be the end of it.

 

There will always be people defending pieces of **** like Leon Lawson and their actions, I remember some people in the boxing community also defending James Butler not long after his assault on Richard Grant, I bet they would never admit to it nowadays. And no, those attacks weren't much different, both were cowardly bare knuckle sucker punches on an unsuspecting person.