Wood was out of it, don’t think he’d have recovered in the minute or so he’d have had in the corner - think Davison made the smart decision for his fighter
What a fighter Lara is by the way, 24 years old & has TKO’d both Wood & Josh Warrington
Ben Davidson should not have thrown the towel in there, these guys are featherweights, world level fighters and there was about 10 seconds left in the round then a minute to recover.
Lara is a banger, absolutely decimated Josh Warrington in their first fight and whilst he was looking very ragged he had his feet planted as firm as they go into the canvas when that hook landed
What's interesting is that a number of pros have come out today to defend Davidson's decision. 10 seconds fighting essentially undefended against Lara could have been dangerous.
Easy for us to say it's early but that doesn't seem to be the consensus from those who know best.
Such a tough one, at first I thought it was ridiculous, I didn’t expect him to be able to recover in the corner but at least there would be more time to assess properly. But then thinking about it, if the trainer was certain he’d pull him out anyway, why risk further damage pointlessly.
What's interesting is that a number of pros have come out today to defend Davidson's decision. 10 seconds fighting essentially undefended against Lara could have been dangerous.
Easy for us to say it's early but that doesn't seem to be the consensus from those who know best.
Then I don’t think we are too far off fights being over on a knockdown. Literally thousands of fights and careers wouldn’t have progressed if a boxer wasn’t given the ability to shake off a wobble. This was a world title fight, that he was winning, with 10 secs to a bell and reset.
I get why Davidson did it, and you have a split second to make those decisions. I’ve seen loads of fights a responsible trainer should have thrown in a towel and stopped his boxer taking further punishment, but it was no where near that point last night.
I will never criticise a corner throwing the towel in - nobody knows the fighter better than the trainer and the trainer's primary concern during a fight is the safety and well being of his fighter.
What's interesting is that a number of pros have come out today to defend Davidson's decision. 10 seconds fighting essentially undefended against Lara could have been dangerous.
Easy for us to say it's early but that doesn't seem to be the consensus from those who know best.
Then I don’t think we are too far off fights being over on a knockdown. Literally thousands of fights and careers wouldn’t have progressed if a boxer wasn’t given the ability to shake off a wobble. This was a world title fight, that he was winning, with 10 secs to a bell and reset.
I get why Davidson did it, and you have a split second to make those decisions. I’ve seen loads of fights a responsible trainer should have thrown in a towel and stopped his boxer taking further punishment, but it was no where near that point last night.
I'd say that's a bit of an exaggeration. If you watch it back and watch the entire 8 count, he didn't know where he was to lift his gloves at the first time of asking. He's got a rematch clause, why risk getting hurt?
There isn't really a right nor wrong here, Carl Froch upon looking back at the situation said it was stopped prematurely which made me chuckle as it was Howard Foster who has previous for some generous stoppages in favour of ticket sellers and Carl had been the very famous recipient of one such stoppage
@AFKABartram is right as is @Croydon and @bobmunro my personal opinion of the fight last night was that is was stopped early given all the factors that me and Afka described, world title fight, light weight fighters, 10 seconds of the round left but I wasn't in there and its easy for me to be brave sat on a chat forum
Bixing is a brutal, brutal sport and whilst I want to see good, competitive, exciting fights and knockouts I hypocritically dont want anyone getting seriously hurt and getting repeatedly punched by someone trained to an elite level to do just that is a dangerous way to make a living
Obviously that "script" that was online early was rubbish how can you script an eye swelling up 🤣
But some people clearly believing it, Paul to win in round 8 has gone from 33/1 this morning to 12/1 now 🤣
If you let Mike Tyson give you a whack maybe you can find out...
Exactly my point Jake Paul is not Mike Tyson accuracy or power
You can't script a eye swelling
However it can happen if he gets hit by a great punch in the perfect spot, but the fact people are believing its scripted to happen is ridiculous
How many fights have you watched where people have taken punch after punch and not had any swelling especially enough for the ringside doctor to get involved 🤣
Obviously that "script" that was online early was rubbish how can you script an eye swelling up 🤣
But some people clearly believing it, Paul to win in round 8 has gone from 33/1 this morning to 12/1 now 🤣
If you let Mike Tyson give you a whack maybe you can find out...
Exactly my point Jake Paul is not Mike Tyson accuracy or power
You can't script a eye swelling
However it can happen if he gets hit by a great punch in the perfect spot, but the fact people are believing its scripted to happen is ridiculous
How many fights have you watched where people have taken punch after punch and not had any swelling especially enough for the ringside doctor to get involved 🤣
You could easily stage manage a clash of heads, this guy is a scourge of modern media. He has clearly made a phenomenal amount of money to be staging this sack of tits tonight and got so many people on board but in boxing money is the only language that means anything, ticket sellers have always got wonky decisions and where a promoter holds a monopoly like Hearn does in the UK people want to ensure his big expe side showboat is kept afloat, this won't be any different. The amount of money that has been invested into tonight will soon wipe any indignity off a member of the Fury family's mind. David Haye didn't seem too bothered about surrendering his legacy in 2 absolute bullshit fights with Tony Bellew.
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What a fighter Lara is by the way, 24 years old & has TKO’d both Wood & Josh Warrington
Lara is a banger, absolutely decimated Josh Warrington in their first fight and whilst he was looking very ragged he had his feet planted as firm as they go into the canvas when that hook landed
Easy for us to say it's early but that doesn't seem to be the consensus from those who know best.
@AFKABartram is right as is @Croydon and @bobmunro my personal opinion of the fight last night was that is was stopped early given all the factors that me and Afka described, world title fight, light weight fighters, 10 seconds of the round left but I wasn't in there and its easy for me to be brave sat on a chat forum
Bixing is a brutal, brutal sport and whilst I want to see good, competitive, exciting fights and knockouts I hypocritically dont want anyone getting seriously hurt and getting repeatedly punched by someone trained to an elite level to do just that is a dangerous way to make a living
I'm pleased to see people voting with their feet for these things. They are farcical & i have very little interest in them.
Looks like a lot of people feel the same
But some people clearly believing it, Paul to win in round 8 has gone from 33/1 this morning to 12/1 now 🤣
Can't believe I've been sucked in by this... Crolla has had a mare, what's going on with that barnet
You can't script a eye swelling
However it can happen if he gets hit by a great punch in the perfect spot, but the fact people are believing its scripted to happen is ridiculous
How many fights have you watched where people have taken punch after punch and not had any swelling especially enough for the ringside doctor to get involved 🤣