SKY Box Ofice - FROCH V GROVES 2 - Unfinished Business -Saturday Night Chat Thread

[Gandalf]

The man was up quickly and could well have seen out the round. At least Zab was allowed to show us the chicken dance. Groves meanwhile was hurt, but he was up. If Smoger was refeering that it would have continued and rightly so as the fans want to see an ending, and me personally, I like to see if a fighter can show something. Fighters seldom get seriously hurt from a few seconds more to show something and the ref can jump in when he sees nothing is left. You can't tell much by jumping on a fighter and trying to pin him down like it is wrestling. Let the man get up and appraise the situation with a count and then a few seconds more and jump in as soon as you see it's a lost cause. I'm not advocating manslaughter, but simply saying fights are stopped too quickly in the UK. At least allow a few seconds to consider things instead of stopping things at the first opportunity as they do. Marquez would have been jumped on in the first round by a referee had Pac/Marquez 1 been in the UK.

[Silkeyjoe]

The man was up quickly and could well have seen out the round. At least Zab was allowed to show us the chicken dance. Groves meanwhile was hurt, but he was up. If Smoger was refeering that it would have continued and rightly so as the fans want to see an ending, and me personally, I like to see if a fighter can show something. Fighters seldom get seriously hurt from a few seconds more to show something and the ref can jump in when he sees nothing is left. You can't tell much by jumping on a fighter and trying to pin him down like it is wrestling. Let the man get up and appraise the situation with a count and then a few seconds more and jump in as soon as you see it's a lost cause. I'm not advocating manslaughter, but simply saying fights are stopped too quickly in the UK. At least allow a few seconds to consider things instead of stopping things at the first opportunity as they do. Marquez would have been jumped on in the first round by a referee had Pac/Marquez 1 been in the UK.

Stupid post. Fighters get seriously hurt from taking clean shots which usually happen when u are hurt and cant defend yourself properly. It looked like Groves was clean out and when he woke he tried to get up. No way should a fighter be allowed to continue if thats the case.