Monday, August 8, 2011

In HOLYFIELD vs RAHMAN: With the "Majority of Dangerous Growth" due to punches should Evander have got a TKO W?

That fight should have been stopped as soon as that second head started growing out of Rahman's original head, regardless of how the thing was caused, it was just cause for stoppage. Just as in any other situation where an injury causes one fighter to be unable to continue, if the rules call for a TKO (like in a low blow situation where the fighter cannot continue after the allotted recovery time) it should end that way. If the rules call for going to the score cards pre-maturely, that it goes into the books as a decisoin for whom ever is ahead at the time of stoppage. If I was the ref, I would have called it a TKO for Holyfield, the merciless and repeated shots to the swelling that Holyfield delivered were unnecessary and could have been avoided with the ref stepping in earlier, and I said then, and still hold to the opinion that it should have been stopped due to the freakish injury.

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