HBO Tonight: Kovalev vs Caparello and Rios vs Chaves

[p4pking]

Unbelievable. THat ref should never work again.

[ruthless rocco]

WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

A good ref leaves his ego outside the ring. What a piece of shit!!!!!

[Violent Demise]

Vic needs to not be a ref any more

[Spicoli]

Yeh, that was a horseshit DQ. I think it was mutual instigation, almost like ref punked out and just wanted it over because he had already walked up to the brink...FUGLY ugly fight,

[La Cucaracha]

Bad refereeing

[Kirkland Laing]

Drakulich fucked that fight up.

[Spicoli]

" Drakabitch"... Maybe Rios is sharper than we think

[Violent Demise]

Rios looks like he's daring Lampley to say he didn't foul him

[p4pking]

Possibly the most I've ever seen a referee ruin a fight..What the hell did he even call the final stoppage for, it was Rios trying to hit on the break at that point and he just DQ'ed Chaves!! THat's after not even taking a point for pulling him down just seconds earlier mind you, compared to what he did penalize both guys for early. In his only defense, both guy were being really dirty, but it's hard blame anyone but him for that either. They were both getting away with way nastier stuff than whatever had points taken early, so it's not like he was even being firm, he had no control of the action and just acted randomly. Terrible.

[Gandalf]

I take back my bad language, but the sentiments remain. There was only 5 minutes to go and Brandon was just as much up to no good in that final round. What was the point in stopping it. The ref lost his composure and he did that repeatedly in the fight. There should probably be a rematch and Smoger with his rubber gloves should be the referee.

[Ron Swanson]

That card was a fucking disgrace in the end. The referee lost that fight. Ban the stupid vampiric old bastard.

I don't think it was just a disgrace in the end. It was a disgrace from the set up. We keep getting worse and worse match ups. These "headliners" wouldn't even be the fight before the main event 30 years ago. They'd be lucky to be the fight before the fight before the main event.

Seriously, two gate keeper quality fighters as a main event? A champ against a nobody as co-main? The product gets ever worse. We get maybe 5 quality fights a year anymore. Sure there are plenty of action fights and fights that end up good but those are almost by accident. If they aren't by accident they are by guys on the way up because once anyone gets any standing they make shit fights. I'm losing my cool over this garbage. Back in the day better fights than those were on free friction TV, now this garbage is what we get from premium?! I really don't know how much longer I can watch this sport eat itself.

[Violent Demise]

That card was a fucking disgrace in the end. The referee lost that fight. Ban the stupid vampiric old bastard.

I don't think it was just a disgrace in the end. It was a disgrace from the set up. We keep getting worse and worse match ups. These "headliners" wouldn't even be the fight before the main event 30 years ago. They'd be lucky to be the fight before the fight before the main event.

Seriously, two gate keeper quality fighters as a main event? A champ against a nobody as co-main? The product gets ever worse. We get maybe 5 quality fights a year anymore. Sure there are plenty of action fights and fights that end up good but those are almost by accident. If they aren't by accident they are by guys on the way up because once anyone gets any standing they make shit fights. I'm losing my cool over this garbage. Back in the day better fights than those were on free friction TV, now this garbage is what we get from premium?! I really don't know how much longer I can watch this sport eat itself.

Rios-Chaves was expected to be a good fight from the day it was signed. It wasn't by accident. The 1940's are over. And they have been over for awhile. The era of great fights on free TV is long gone. It sucks. But that's the way it is.

[Lineal]

[beenKOed]

That card was a fucking disgrace in the end. The referee lost that fight. Ban the stupid vampiric old bastard.

I don't think it was just a disgrace in the end. It was a disgrace from the set up. We keep getting worse and worse match ups. These "headliners" wouldn't even be the fight before the main event 30 years ago. They'd be lucky to be the fight before the fight before the main event.

Seriously, two gate keeper quality fighters as a main event? A champ against a nobody as co-main? The product gets ever worse. We get maybe 5 quality fights a year anymore. Sure there are plenty of action fights and fights that end up good but those are almost by accident. If they aren't by accident they are by guys on the way up because once anyone gets any standing they make shit fights. I'm losing my cool over this garbage. Back in the day better fights than those were on free friction TV, now this garbage is what we get from premium?! I really don't know how much longer I can watch this sport eat itself.

I don't think the matchup was bad at all, it was a hard fought, dirty, and close?! fight. Co-main would have been a better way to describe it.
I wish it had gone the distance just so I could have heard the judge's score cards. I was thinking very close, but who can say with the point deductions.
I'm not going to second guess the ref this time, he had trouble with them both from beginning to end, plus he was in the ring with them.
I dislike DQs the same as everyone else.

[Beanflicker]

Kovalev once again proved that he has the kind of power that makes his opponent start looking for a comfy place to fall. You can see them lose their heart when he lands clean.

What a fucking mess Vic turned Rios/Chavez into, and one of the worst DQs I've ever seen in boxing. Both guys were up to no good, and Chavez was doing a bit of acting to try to get