Quote Originally Posted by IamInuit View Post
For those that have never seen a fix unfold before their eyes w/o going to the score cards well this fight serves as empirical evidence that such things exist. Nobody shuts off like that. That goes way beyond letting the fight slip away. Banks was getting dangerously close to being Wlads mandatory after the first fight.

You may well be right, only I'm not to sure that isn't just the way Banks fights big men? He was hardly guns blazing in the first fight either, just cashed in on Mitchell trying to bull him around without having a clue. The main reason I'd doubt this at all is that Mitchell can potentially make golden boy a bit of cash down the line, and Wlad would clearly ruin him. Really think they arre trying to line that up right away? Is Banks a golden boy fighter as well Just can't see how its really doing Wlad a favour to let that transpire.