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Bad Stoppage

Miles
VD
SlimTrae
Brock

Good Stoppage

Spicoli
Amat
Julius Rain
Kirkland Laing
TitoFan
Walrus
TigerFan
MrBig1
beenKOed
Dia bando
Beanflicker
Greenbeanz
Nameless
J_Undisputed
AdamGB

On the fence

armin
swice

I guess I could use the same word as Brock (early) For me it was looking at Pascal @ the stoppage. When a fighter can question the ref, doesn't wobble around, then it tells me he had his faculties.

It's not in my book of all time bad stoppages, but gotta wonder fellaz...if that had been Steve Smoger, do we think he would have stopped it like that? Aren't those moments what a standing 8 can come into play?

No complaints from me, not a bad stoppage, but premature; probably.

Well at least you and Brock said "early", not "horrible" like VD, which is par for the course as far as he's concerned.
Slim, did you not see Pascal stumbling from one corner to the other like a drunkard while Kovalev was getting up from his trip and fall?

I hate to disagree with you, buddy... but more often than not, even boxers who have definitely had enough complain about the stoppage to the referee. It's a natural reaction. There's a lot of pride involved, remember. Look at the recent ring deaths, in particular the 23-year old Australian fighter who just died. Like I said in a previous post, we as fans watching an exciting, riveting fight... will always want to see it continue. So when the stoppage comes there is naturally a certain degree of disappointment. But IMO, we can't let that disappointment color our judgment on whether a stoppage is premature or not.