Alright... In regards to the Tsurkan Angulo bout. This didn't piss anyone else off?

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I'm going to have to disagree with pretty much everyone here.

I just watched the fight, and that kind of beating can have a very long lasting impact on a person. Tsurkan was taking flush power shots all night. It was clear relatively early on that he had NO chance to win. None, he landed his best shots and Angulo didn't even blink. The ref, ringside doctor, or the corner should have stopped the fight long before it inspired memories of fighters dying in the ring. It wasn't just Lampley either, every member of the HBO team was adamant that the fight should be stopped. Lampley has seen people die in the ring, and for what, pride (no pun intended)? Pride doesn't mean sweet fuck all when you're laying on a steel table in a morgue. Tsurkan took 400 punches, 296 of which were power shots and I didn't see too many glancing blows.

Not that it should matter, it sometimes does unfortunately, but it's not as if Tsurkan was an undefeated fighter or even one that had never been knocked out, speaking from a purely financial standpoint, a stoppage loss wasn't going to really hurt his career.

Hell, I wouldn't have been overly pissed off if Lampley had climbed in the ring to get the fight stopped.

Good post, nice points. I think there's a lot to be said for the fact that Lampley has seen fighters die in the ring before. This was as brutal a prolonged beating as you really ever need to see before a fight is stopped, he was maybe even thinking along the lines of some pre-emptive damage control. How does it look to the casual fan if a fighter does get seriously hurt in the ring and noone was bringing light to the possibility of this while he was being brutally beaten?

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I'm going to have to disagree with pretty much everyone here.

I just watched the fight, and that kind of beating can have a very long lasting impact on a person. Tsurkan was taking flush power shots all night. It was clear relatively early on that he had NO chance to win. None, he landed his best shots and Angulo didn't even blink. The ref, ringside doctor, or the corner should have stopped the fight long before it inspired memories of fighters dying in the ring. It wasn't just Lampley either, every member of the HBO team was adamant that the fight should be stopped. Lampley has seen people die in the ring, and for what, pride (no pun intended)? Pride doesn't mean sweet fuck all when you're laying on a steel table in a morgue. Tsurkan took 400 punches, 296 of which were power shots and I didn't see too many glancing blows.

Not that it should matter, it sometimes does unfortunately, but it's not as if Tsurkan was an undefeated fighter or even one that had never been knocked out, speaking from a purely financial standpoint, a stoppage loss wasn't going to really hurt his career.

Hell, I wouldn't have been overly pissed off if Lampley had climbed in the ring to get the fight stopped.

Good post, nice points. I think there's a lot to be said for the fact that Lampley has seen fighters die in the ring before. This was as brutal a prolonged beating as you really ever need to see before a fight is stopped, he was maybe even thinking along the lines of some pre-emptive damage control. How does it look to the casual fan if a fighter does get seriously hurt in the ring and noone was bringing light to the possibility of this while he was being brutally beaten?

People are missing the point of my post... I wholeheartedly agreed and said that the fight could have been stopped anytime in the last two rounds...

Lanpley was over the top and the ringdeath talk was helping no one... I think it's safe to say that MOST of us have seen fights where people have died/gone into comas/brain bleeds ect. This is boxing...

His corner should have stopped the fight but Lampley loses it and looks like a dick all the time and please... All the ominous ringdeath talk was just rediculous... I've seen fights where guys have been beaten down as bad if not worse then that...

The entire last two rounds is purely on his corner's shoulders as they should be quicker to pull the trigger then the ref. But Lampley legit yelling "GO DOWN! GO DOWN!" to a fighter in the ring... unnecessary!