Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
I had a debate yesterday with @imp who had the opinion that Rosado and Matthysse did not deserve rematches. His point was cuts/eye closing are part of boxing and if they lost because of the cuts/eye closing, there is no reason to grant them rematches. Besides the fact that people would be interested in the rematches, do you agree that when the outcome of a fight is changed due to a cut or an eye closing, there is no reason for the victor to grant the loser a rematch? A win is a win.

In this context, keep in mind that Garcia gave Morales a rematch when the fight was not as close as the Matthysse fight and that Quillin was looking to make a statement at middleweight because of the comparisons with GGG.

By the way, sour grapes on my part over the plight of Matthysse and Rosado? Yes, perhaps.

Interesting question not sour grapes.


I tend to agree with @imp. This is the hurt business and cuts are part of it obviously. To me its a bit of a slippery slope. Not only that but neither fight was all that close. This brings back memories of the talk after another fight between heavies where the loser on cuts was actually ahead on the cards prior to its ending. That scenario has also played out throughout history. Its part of the risk. More often then not, they allow the fighter to continue when it should be stopped. Its up to the fighter who is cut to go change the outcome at that point. Marciano was about to have his fight stopped in the second Charles fight.

In addition there are those fighters who are cut often and many times in the same area. The opponents will of course learn of this and target that area and if they manage to open something up they will then target the cut. Certain places for example on Gatti's face had scar tissue that was about as thick as rice paper. A cut would open up if he got hit by a random hot dog bun thrown into the ring. He had a bad gash in the Ruelas fight and was behind and took it into his own hands. And even in Rosado's case, I'm pretty sure he was cut in the same spot in the 3G fight. I'd bet it opens up again.

Cut caused by a clash of heads in a close fight sure.