Im not saying "dont protect the fighter". Sure there need to be rules in place to protect the fighter. But for it to be different for the guy in his first fight and a guy in his 200th ruond is wrong. If nothing else the guy with the experience gets hurt then he is in just as much danger as the other, because of the experience of their perspective opponent. Im not implying that we just let the guys kill eachother. And if the guy is hurt and can't defend himself stop the fight, or give him the standing eight count.
Maybe my problem is this. And this just dawned on me. Alot of the fights that Im bitching about are fights that have no standing eightcount. And that system favors k.o.'s, and I think that that gives a faulse impression on some fighters records. So when a fighter gets into in this type of bout, he can win every round get into trouble in the last and lose without ever being knocked out. Do you see what im saying. When I boxed there was this fighter from ST.Louis that I fought, I threw a streight right, he sliped it and hit me on the right kidney so hard I almost shat myself. I was able to defend myself for halph a round but wasent able to come up with any offence untill the next round. I won the fight. But only because the ref didn't stop it prematurly. I was hurt and in trouble, but I delt with it. But now I see too many fights that end just because a fighter gets hurt and in trouble, but isnt done. How many times have we seen a guy punch himself out because he stung someone.Then ends up KTFO.