Why would dirrel need to act, he was going to win anyway...

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You can't even compare the two incidents. For a start one was a real injury, the other one wasn't.

So now Dirrell taking that shot flush unexpectedly on the canvas isn't a real injury? Please tell me I'm not hearing this

No, because it wasn't all that flush and it was an arm shot at best. He looked back at him and then touched his face like it physically hurt him. Seriously, i've never ever seen someone wince from pain, take a second to think about it and then flop. Especially when the shot wasn't anything special.

You can point out at a thousand similar incidents, but i know what i saw. I saw a man taking the easy way out.

Nothing adds up. Hel felt the pain of the shot, and he was cleary annoyed with the shot, then he paused, then he went down. He rolled in and out of the ring, before he started twitching his leg. He wouldn't let the Dr look into his eyes.

When he came round he acted like he thought he'd lost, but as soon as someone mentioned he'd won, his memory came back in a flash, which wouldn't happen, and his recollection of the knockout blow would in all probability not come back to him, certainly not that quickly. He was also coherent enough to hear somebody ringside questioning the knockout, which again is strange. He then got upset at what he'd heard. Again, bizarre behaviour for somebody who had been out cold for a while.

But what's even more bizarre is that despite apparently being unconscious for a good while and despite suffering a convulsion, no sign of even the mildest concussion showed up on the scans.

I see you're a neurologist. Regardless, any boxer who has been a pro longer than a year knows it's an automatic DQ when you hit an opponent while he is down. So, if Dirrell 'thought about it' as you say, why go through the embarrassment and subject himself to scrutiny by falling onto his back, flopping around and endanger his career by presenting himself as completely disoriented during the post-fight interview. None of these things engender themselves to prolonging one's career. For the next half dozen or so fights, definitely for the remainder of this tourney, people are going to be questioning if Dirrell should be in this tourney, if his head is right, if he has the ability to be effective. Fighters sometimes fake being hurt, but they don't fake discombobulation. It calls into question too many things they need to have established in order to be considered elite.