Refs who stop fights to early : The most annoying thing in boxing ?

[JazMerkin]

Watched this a few times.Difficult to call. Maybe we should change the quistion.

A fight should be stopped when a fighter is deemed "unable to protect himself"

Did cook look unable to protect himself when he got up?

He looked ok to continue to me.And this is hardly one of them Cotto VS Gomes match-ups.I'd give the champ a proper chance to defend his title

If your down for two 9 counts in a row,you are unable to protect yourself

No you arent

Marquez stumbled up to 2 very lazy larthargic 8 counts
Buster Douglas barely made the 10 count and was all over the place
Eubank was completely gone against watson and even at 8 was all over the place
Benn needed a good 20 seconds to climb himself through the ropes and back into the ring to knock out gerald mcClellan

Theres no mercy rule in a sport such as boxing, the only time a fighter should not be allowed to continue is if the ref feels he is completely unable to protect himself!!!

Which the ref, and most of the posters on here, clearly felt he was unable to do. The way he stumbled back into the second knockdown showed he was done.

[Mark TKO]

The hardest job in the world at times.

I had no complaints about the Cook stoppage to be fair - was just one of those.

Two that always stand out to me are Tyson Ruddock I and Lewis v McCall I.

[Macho]

The big Question is what is the job of Refs , to Protect the Boxers or be a Model into the Ring ? , cmon....Cook was hurt very badly twice , if Refs would not stopped that fight what you think would happen then ? , that is the big problems of most of fighters that doesnt recognize when is badly hurts , prefer to died in the line , to me that is not Healthy.......

[ono]

I suppose Cook had his chance to hold after the first kd, and he didn't so there is nothing to suggest that he would have survived getting kd again in that round.

At the time i thought he probably could continue but i can't fault the ref for stepping in and calling it. It did seem however, that Bradley Pryce was given more of an opportunity to get back into the fight earlier on in the night. Maybe the brutality of his KO played on the ref's mind slightly. Had the potential to be a cracker aswell seen as though they both clearly were capable of rocking eachother.

Cook should have tried to hold on at least instead of trying to fight back. Ah well i never thought he was good enough to be a world champ and at least now we don't have to watch a Cook, Arthur, Mitchell, Foster Jnr WBO title merry-go-round.