Suspicious Endings to fights

[erics44]

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

ignoring history and your opinions of the fighters going in to the fight, if that was the first time you had seen both fighters, Im not sure you would have had the opinion that froch would have stopped him anyway

froch looked much more likely to be stopped

Calazaghe Manfedo was bad, I don't remember andy lee v brain vera being bad tho

[erics44]

ill click the links when I get home

nice touch by the way

[Master]

Seldon v Tyson

[Sleepwalker]

Seldon is lucky his dive didn't take place in this internet, social/multimedia driven era. He would have been completely ostracized.

[SlimTrae]

Seldon is lucky his dive didn't take place in this internet, social/multimedia driven era. He would have been completely ostracized.

Man that wasn't even suspicious, it was blatant

An undefeated Travis Walker vs TJ Wilson. Suspicious or just a sorry job by the referee? 17 seconds...

I'm not sure McCallum had Julian Jackson out on his feet. I think Julian deserved the benefit of the doubt.

[Spicoli]

Lonnie Beasley vs Green always comes to mind. Ref 'backs off' Beasley who falls down in 12th..ref kneels over him and waves it off tko. Fight even on cards. Dude was hurt, but at least issue a count

Remember Mills knocking Hopkins out of ring, still think that was legit. Bowe vs Mathis was crappy. Kid took a knee, got clocked on knee with blatant late shot and ref, commission and judge huddle ring center...yelling at camera and "hey its on us" and rule NC.

[SlimTrae]

It's easy for me to go from suspicious ending to crappy refereeing. So I guess I can't name fights with a suspicious ending.