Quote Originally Posted by Diane View Post
And it's not irrelevent, because Wright failed to check Bute properly to see if he was able to continue. Even though the round was over, after giving the count, Wright was supposed to make Bute take a few steps forward, to see if Bute would be able to continue to fight, but he did not do that. Wright let the ropes continue to hold Bute up. If Bute would have step forward, it would have been obvious to everyone that he would not have been able to continue, thus it should have gone as a TKO.

The ropes saved Bute from going outside of the ring at least 2 times prior to the knock down, and he stopped defending himself with 35 seconds left! He was done!

I like Bute, don't get me wrong, and he was clearly winning the fight until the 12th round, but I'm not going to be blind to what occurred, just because I like a fighter.
That was definitely a glaring omission, Wright should have definitely made him do that. I still don't think it was a horrible call not to stop it before Bute went down (although like I've said its not like it would have been unjustified to do so, I just think that late in the fight he should at least be put down before you stop it or be completely out on his feet) but even though I think it would have been harsh to stop it after he got up and the time ran out still there's no saving a fighter by the bell and he should have made him walk forward and checked him more carefully.

Maybe the outrage seems a bit excessive to me because I didn't see the whole fight and apparently Wright was coddlinig Bute the whole way. Just as far as the end goes, it was bad but I've definitely seen worse.