When should a fighter be pulled out ?

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Barker was bang on when he pulled purdy out. He was getting hit and not throwing back.


In my opinion, even if the fighter has 95% stamina left, if he is getting beaten down without returns should be pulled.

this is key and so is knowing your fighter, reading the fight etc. IF your guy is well behind on the cards and shows zero sign of winning you could within your rights pull the guy out to save his brain for another day.

If he's getting beat down BUT has the power to land a one punch ko you're more likely to let it continue a little while longer.

Then no journey men should be allowed fight. Ogogos fight at the weekend should have been stopped after the 1st by this logic, it's bullshit. Purdy was weight drained and had no chance of winnin, everyone knew that, particularly after the 1st round.

Fighters should only be pulled out if they are clearly hurt, Lebedevs for example was a clear example, Purdys was not.

The thing is Purdy was clearly not himself. As limited as he may be he sees himself as a banger and does not make a habit of just standing in front of fighters and letting them tee off with no reply. It is not as if he was throwing and Devon was just dodging and slipping everything that came his way. He was gun shy to the point of inertia and his trainer Simms has a responsibility to not let his fighter take unnecessary punishment. What would have been gained by letting him become further dehydrated and stay in for more rounds doing nothing? If there was a chance of him pulling a big shot out of the bag and disheartening Alexander he would have shown clear signs earlier in the fight of being able to do so.

You keep saying Simms but he wasn't there, Darren Barker was his leader in the corner, and he made the call to pull him.

Purdy would have lost at his best

Take away the fact he had only 4 weeks notice for the biggest fight of his career.

Take away the fact that his trainer wasn't in his corner.

Take away the fact that he failed to make weight and probably drained himself just before the fight.

The outcome would have been the same.