It irritates the **** out of me if it someone I'm rooting for....if it isn't I don't really care.:good
I want to make a poll but there's a technical problem occuring. So my options are : 1. I really hate it since it doesn't worth my money. 2. I don't really like it since eveyone expects to have a lot of fun watching boxing but the referee spoils it. 3. Those referees who always do it should be banned. 4. I support it since it can save the boxer's life.
Depends on the situation. If a fighter is clearly out on his feet, absorbing a ton of punches, not answering back then I'm for the stoppage. See Pascal vs Kovalev or: If a fighter is clearly being pummelled and is looking for a way to end the fight on his own, and the referee waves the fight off I'm good with the decision. But: If its a case where a fighter gets dropped, gets back up and gets hit a couple times and the referee immediately jumps in and stops it, I don't care for it. See Lopez vs. Berto or: If a fighter gets hit and stunned and the referee immediately stops the fight, then I don't care for it. See Manfredo vs. Calzaghe I always want to err on the side of caution. No need to see a boxer suffer a life-altering injury...!!!
in the old days the thinking was if the guy wasn't on his back he was still OK i see early stoppages but i also see a lot of stoppages that others claim are horrible when i don't think they are that bad,,,,,, take the Kov Pascal fight, i am not being a Kov Fan boy, from what i saw Pascal was in big trouble and Kov was not in big trouble,,,It looked like Kov had Pascal hurt big time even before he slipped and the ref then went to check Pascal before restarting the fight,,, Pascal nearly fell over before the ref went to check on him, he was confused and in a state of shock in my opinion, then he was not clear when the Ref asked him if he was ready to go, ok yes he agreed but he had the classic signs of a fighter that does not completely know what is going on because they have just been badly stunned, in my opinion, thus i think the Ref let the fight go but was already not trusting Pascal was "ok" to continue because he agreed to fight on but looked confused at the same time, then as soon as Kov starts scoring on Pascal so freely i think he called it being convinced that Pascal was about to take even more shots without being able to stop them then again, i have read on here people saying this was a garbage stoppage, its not freaking easy to figure out, lol
I think they do a much better job stopping fights than in the past. When I look at old footage of some fights I'm shocked to see that the corner/the ref let the fight continue. It seemed like they had zero respect for the well being of the fighters or the fighters' families. Unfortunately, they do stop some fights early but overall I think they do a good job.
And right after that there was a similar stoppage in Berto-Lopez but that was viewed as an early stoppage. Both Lopes and Pascal were hurt before they went down. Pascal got up and took one punch before the referee stopped it. Same thing with Lopez but he went down again.
I'm all for the early stoppage if it protects the boxer's long term health, particularly if he's already soaked up a beating getting to that point and is losing the fight. However, on the other hand, rounds like the one below are a part of what makes boxing the sport we all love. [yt]feDnIAWjD_o[/yt]
Depends on the situation. If a fighter is clearly out on his feet, absorbing a ton of punches, not answering back then I'm for the stoppage. See Pascal vs Kovalev or: If a fighter is clearly being pummelled and is looking for a way to end the fight on his own, and the referee waves the fight off I'm good with the decision. But: If its a case where a fighter gets dropped, gets back up and gets hit a couple times and the referee immediately jumps in and stops it, I don't care for it. See Lopez vs. Berto or: If a fighter gets hit and stunned and the referee immediately stops the fight, then I don't care for it. See Manfredo vs. Calzaghe I always want to err on the side of caution. No need to see a boxer suffer a life-altering injury...!!!
