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Quote Originally Posted by Hunter View Post
I think Bute won the fight as the ref indicated...It was close at the end and the ref had to make a split second decision and the outcome is the outcome....

If the ref had stopped the fight I am sure there would have been a contingent that said he should not have stepped in and stopped the fight ala taylor/chavez...........Bute did get up before a count of 10...

In close fights I am not going to sit here and nit pick a decision by the refs, the fighters need to take the fight out of the refs hands, if they dont do that than they cant complain about the decision....
That's how I feel, by the letter of the law (the IBF championship rules), the ref did the right thing. I really don't understand the outcry about it. The long count doesn't matter because Bute was up before a regular 10 count anyways, and the rules state that if a fighter is KD'd at the end of a fight, with less than 10 seconds remaining, all that has to happen is his gloves must both be off the canvas by a count of ten.
Hi mate,
I watch this fight about 3 or 4 times and the final round more than 10 times and I think that the referee had to stop it somewhere between 2’20” – 2’40” of the 12th. Like Killersheep said the referee was not doing any favors to Bute, allowing so much punishment and mostly the last punch it was really crime; and that was happening just a few days after one young Mexican fighter(I forgot his name) died because of a KO.
All the discussions about what were happening after, how long the count was or if Bute was capable to continue after the count, I think are pointless.
I do agree with you that people overreacting and by the letter of the law M.B.R. didn’t do anything completely wrong, I think he just use the regulation and he walk on the edge of it to help Bute but in my eyes Lucian lost this fight. And believe me, I’m a big Bute fan.