Quote Originally Posted by Diane View Post
And it's not irrelevent, because Wright failed to check Bute properly to see if he was able to continue. Even though the round was over, after giving the count, Wright was supposed to make Bute take a few steps forward, to see if Bute would be able to continue to fight, but he did not do that. Wright let the ropes continue to hold Bute up. If Bute would have step forward, it would have been obvious to everyone that he would not have been able to continue, thus it should have gone as a TKO.

The ropes saved Bute from going outside of the ring at least 2 times prior to the knock down, and he stopped defending himself with 35 seconds left! He was done!

I like Bute, don't get me wrong, and he was clearly winning the fight until the 12th round, but I'm not going to be blind to what occurred, just because I like a fighter.
Diane to my knowledge there is nothing in the rules, that states you cannot lean against the ropes after getting up from a knockdown. Also after the fight was finished Bute clearly walked forward to his corner. With no real trouble from my memory so i don't understand what your getting at ?

Bute was in real trouble before the knockdown but Andrade was still struggling, to land clean punches until the last 19 seconds. And in no way shape or form should any ref of stopped the fight before the knockdown.

To answer your other question i believe in the rules, it states that you have to check the other fighter is in the neutral corner. This is where Richard Steele made a mistake in the Taylor vs Chavez fight, because Chavez wasn't in the neutral corner and he didn't bother checking.