Tony Tubbs LKO1 Jimmy Ellis - was it fixed or real?

I don't know if it was fixed or not.. Frankly I don't see any profitable reason for Tubbs to throw that fight, and given that Ellis showed no trajectory of a man who was going anywhere, there doesn't seem to be much motive for a fix. I saw Tubbs KO'd in one round fairly close to that same time frame by Lionel Butler who caught him legitimately and no apparent signs of a fix were evident. I think it comes down to Tony never really having the greatest chin and occasionally getting careless.. That and he was also past his prime for the Butler and Ellis fights....

SIDENOTE: - I saw Tubbs' fight with Alexander Zolkin live on TV back in the day.. Zolkin was robbed in that match to the extent where viewers called in to the network with their displeasure over the decision.

 

clearly fixed,this one was a ***** punch

 

I don't know.. If you turn up the volume, you can actually hear that shot land.. Ellis was a very hard puncher and it certainly wasn't the first time Tubbs had been knocked out with a hard left hook.

 

Actually looks legit. Mike Tyson eat your heart out.

 

Watching it off the bat looked like a dive but on the replay looks like he took an okay shot went down and said F it

 

First question is who would benefit from a fix here? It was a nothing fight between a washed up Tubbs and Ellis, a fringe journeyman going nowhere.

 

Legit ko.

 

If betting were involved l, there could be motive.

 

A very hard left hook landed flush. Tubbs dropped hard like a sack of potatoes.

 

No way to know for sure. The left hook did land solidly in the temple region.

 

I don't know anything about this particular fight.
I will say that a lot more fights are fixed than we realize.

 

I've watched it several times,...looks like a real ko to me.

 

Getting hit hard in the temple will f*ck you up.

That said, one can't really tell from the footage how hard Tubbs is trying to rise from the canvas.