Toney Rahman decision was terrible

[Lance Uppercut]

I liked the decision. Rahman was clearly trying to quit.

The Doctor said that cut was not bad enough to stop the fight, but only stopped it because of Rahman's complaints.

After an accident, it shouldn't be the fighters choice whether he wants to quit, unless he is willing to take the KO loss. Rahman should have sucked it up like other great warriors and fought on.

[Kev]

I liked the decision. Rahman was clearly trying to quit.

The Doctor said that cut was not bad enough to stop the fight, but only stopped it because of Rahman's complaints.

After an accident, it shouldn't be the fighters choice whether he wants to quit, unless he is willing to take the KO loss. Rahman should have sucked it up like other great warriors and fought on.

The doctor never said that at all. He said that Hasim informed him he couldn't see due to the blood in his eye and he therefore recommended to the referee that the fight be stopped.

He said that the cut itself was not inspected but that the referee waived the fight off on his recommendation that Rahman's vision was being impaired.

Hasim didn't quit, he didn't refuse to fight. He said he couldn't see and based on that fact the referee stopped the fight.

That's a no contest according to the rules. Now the referee could have asked the doctor to examine the cut and the doctor could have said he felt it was not severe enough to stop the fight and ordered Hasim to fight on or else forfeit the fight. This however was not done, the referee made the decision to stop the fight and Hasim was not given the option of fighting on.

In such circumstances how can anyone think it's fair to award a TKO win to Toney? If the ref thought the cut was not severe enough to warrant a stoppage then he should have ordered Hasim to continue fighting. Instead he simply stopped the fight not allowing him the opportunity. As it was a headbutt that caused the damage it HAS to be a no contest under those rules.

As I said before, it will be overturned.