preme wot the hell are you talking about? eastman wanted to make a fight out of it when he faught hopkins and was chasing him around the ring all night. the crowd started booing because hopkins was running away on the back foot all night and just picking howard off as he charged in. hopkins was just thinking about getting his 20th tittle defence in and had no intentions of putting howard away.
eastman showed loads of heart in that tittle shot the same as he did in his other attempt against william joppy. howard could have showed a bit more urgency in the later rounds but he was probably knackared from chasing b hop round all night.