Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
just wanted to discuss fights with suspicious endings

I watched Froch Groves one last night again and I know there was controversy around the stoppage at the time but having rewatched it, it really was a shocking stoppage

there is absolutely no way on earth that anyone can convince me that that fight should have been stopped, groves didn't actually look particularly hurt

reasons Howard Foster did what he did?

- on one hand you could just say he got it wrong, it was an intense fight and he just made the wrong decision
- on another hand you could say he saw something that everyone else didn't, being very close to the action
- and on another you could say that the matchroom cash-cow was losing and should have been well behind on the scorecards, and so foster acted to for financial reasons on behalf of the promotion
Calzaghe-Manfredo takes some beating. I also thought the Qullin-Jacobs was a bad stoppage. Lucas Maythesse-Vivian Harris was bad too. Andy Lee-Brian Vera was just terrible. The dumbass referee stopped the fight when Andy Lee was still landing shots and trading with Vera.

Groves - Froch was bad...but I think Froch would have stopped Groves anyway