Diego Chaves got what he deserved

[Rantcatrat]

It shouldn't have been stopped. Rios is looking more and more limited as he goes higher in weight. He bodied guys earlier in his career at 135. At 147, he's not having the same effect and he looks slow and one dimensional. He's a dead man walking.

[IamInuit]

They should have tanked the whole fight on a technical call and made it a no contest not punish the visitor.

[ykdadamaja]

It shouldn't have been stopped. Rios is looking more and more limited as he goes higher in weight. He bodied guys earlier in his career at 135. At 147, he's not having the same effect and he looks slow and one dimensional. He's a dead man walking.

This is what I feel ticked Drakulich off: Chaves didn't need to resort to such nonsense in the fight. If he had stuck to boxing, he was winning the clean exchanges. He had the fight to win.

Drakulich probably sensed, as we did, that this fight was on a slow roll to becoming a fiasco. It didn't look too safe after the fight was called either- I was thinking a brawl would ensure, or something really dreadful.

Drakulich saw the air in the room, during the fight and saw the extent to which Chaves was trying to take it- knowing full well Rios is the kind of fighter that becomes frustrated too and responds to stuff like that- and tried to deflate some of this before it escalated and we all had a fight we really didn't want to see.

Drakulich, even though the fight could have been better, averted a near disaster.

[IamInuit]

My Lord. Leave the subjectivity at the door. This is boxing not tiddly winks ffs. Why not just change the sport and wrap every fighter in bubble wrap. People who called that travesty a fair call might want to choose another sport to watch.

[Spicoli]

The ref let this devolve into a quintessential clusterfuck of a mess and lost control. I think both fighters were equally to blame...he 'warned' Rios about eight times and there was no clear authority figure in there but rather a scattered lil ol' lady waving a broom around trying to break up drunk uncles in the backyard. He tried to play catch up at the end and repair missed calls, half hearted "hey knock it offs" and lack of official clear warnings and called DQ because he had walked himself into irrelevance and made it personal.

[Ron Swanson]

I think it's quite clear men have no business reffing boxing matches.

[Spicoli]

I think it's quite clear men have no business reffing boxing matches.

Weird isn't it. He'll slowly fad away in memory on this one because we'll see Drakulich 101 more times. I was wishing Sparkle Lee was in there by the 3rd round ha!

[beenKOed]

I think it's quite clear men have no business reffing boxing matches.

Weird isn't it. He'll slowly fad away in memory on this one because we'll see Drakulich 101 more times. I was wishing Sparkle Lee was in there by the 3rd round ha!

Sparkle did do a good job!
Chaves cut his own throat, all he had to do was cooperate with the ref.
Three point deductions and then a DQ. How do you figure the ref let the whole thing become a clusterfuck?
Truthfully, I didn't see why the DQ happened when it did, but I figure Rios outsmarted Chaves by picking the perfect moment to pitch a bitch, good for him. Piss on Chaves, hoping I don't see that arrogant little prick again.

[Dia bando]

The ref let this devolve into a quintessential clusterfuck of a mess and lost control. I think both fighters were equally to blame...he 'warned' Rios about eight times and there was no clear authority figure in there but rather a scattered lil ol' lady waving a broom around trying to break up drunk uncles in the backyard. He tried to play catch up at the end and repair missed calls, half hearted "hey knock it offs" and lack of official clear warnings and called DQ because he had walked himself into irrelevance and made it personal.

Say it again you have a way with words.

[ykdadamaja]

The ref let this devolve into a quintessential clusterfuck of a mess and lost control. I think both fighters were equally to blame...he 'warned' Rios about eight times and there was no clear authority figure in there but rather a scattered lil ol' lady waving a broom around trying to break up drunk uncles in the backyard. He tried to play catch up at the end and repair missed calls, half hearted "hey knock it offs" and lack of official clear warnings and called DQ because he had walked himself into irrelevance and made it personal.

Drak could have done nothing to prevent this from boiling over. Both were committed to be what they were last night... reminds me of the Richard Steele tough assignments he was given over the course of his years.

Looking back at Steele's record, he was given some powder keg's of fights and we blamed him. But it wasn't him. The atmosphere and sentiment around the fight was bigger than anyone could have handled... anyone else would have let some of the same things Steele was involved in turn into all out brawls resulting in deaths.

Can you imagine that numb-nuts Mercante Jr. involved in a Bowe/Golota matchup??

[holmcall]

Yes, Chaves is a sneaky cunt