Well Rodriguez has a home for the right hand all night, he landed a lot of them. But Diaz kept coming through them. But to answer, no, I didn't think about this. As late as the 7th round I thought Rodriguez was gassed and if Oscar kept applying pressure that he could take the fight. Then the eye of Diaz really worsened and that's when he started moving backwards more and more like you said and he kept taking right hands. At that point it probably could have been stopped simply because the eye. They probably checked out the eye a round or two to late but not sure what difference it would have made to be honest.

Definitely wasn't worrying for his safety because like I said he was coming forward and he was even having success with his own right hand but Rodriguez is a sharp shooter, very accurate. Diaz took a lot of very clean blows and fought right through them. It wasn't anything similar to the Leavander Johnson fight which I saw live too. Johnson was taking a very long and drawn out beating in that one and not offering up much in return, Diaz was still in the fight as late as the 7th or 8th round.