Was there a knockdown in the 11th round? (unrelated to controversial ending)

Personally if a punch landed and he wasn't already on the way down its a knockdown. Nothing against Dirrell thats just how I interpret boxing.

 

anyone who voted a knockdown or borderline knockdown is ******ed and extremely biased.

 

Honestly though, this thread is pretty much pointless. That was obviously a slip. You can clearly see his feet sliding. If you hit someone and then they trip over your foot and fall down, is that ruled a knockdown? Of course not. Dirrell went down due to the slippery surface(the same surface he slipped on earlier). Whether or not Abraham landed a grazing jab at about the same time(which it looks like he may not have even done) is irrelevant.

 

In the top down angle, its hard to tell whether his foot was on the ground when he got punched, or he was about to step down - bad angle

It actually looks like dirrell was trying to lean foward to regain balance, but got popped with a jab, and this was unable to regain balance, and went down.... But, you cant see the feet, - another bad angle

From these angles, you cant be sure of much

The ref should have been there sooner tho, thats without a question

 

Get ready for a breakdown from a ******, then.

The ref was right there in the center of the ring and couldn't make the call one way or the other. That's why he didn't step in- he didn't know what to call it and froze.

Personally, I consider it borderline because it would've been a ***** of a call to make in real time, to be fair to Cole. A grazing punch and a slip could easily be interpreted either way, especially when the two happened close to simultaneously. Hell, we've got slo-mo instant replays from angles he couldn't even see posted in this thread and there's still not a consensus on the right call.

 

Clicked the wrong option.

Slip.

 

It is that simple. I've seen plenty of guys clearly get hit and then trip over the other guys foot and it's not ruled a knock down. The slip is what ultimately caused him to go down, not the punch. Unless you're going to seriously argue that he would've went down from that punch, even if he hadn't slipped, then it's an easy call. I just think people aren't familiar with the rules.

 

It was a slip, but the one in the previous round was a legit KD.

 

the 11th & 10th round situations were both slips

11= dirrell slipping off the logo which happened earlier in teh fight as well (2nd or 3rd round)

10= dirrell's left heel gets caught on the front portion of aa's right foot (right where the adidas logo is located) dirrell clearly tries to lift up his left foot but it was trapped by aa's shoe

 

I think it could had been ruled a kd since he wasn't all
the way down.. That's my opinion and if they had ruled it a slip
then I would be good with that too..

 

A slip.

 

Only a incompident ref would call it a KD. We have seen many of them in the past.