Has anyone noticed HBO announers...

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Lately seem to always want to stop fights really early ?

I mean tonight with Caballero and Yordan, Caballero gets ahead and is throwing tons of shots but not really hurting Yordan, and by the 6th round Lampley and Merchant want it stopped ?

I guess its good to error on the side of caution and I agree by the 10th round the corner shoulda thrown in the towell but Yordan was landing some flush left hooks and overhand rights every round on Caballero and protecting his head will with his gloves.

I agree with you. But you have to keep remembering that they've never been in the ring before and may think its worse than what it really is. They were going on about it too early and too much and I wasn't seeing it like they were. Yordan was fine enough to continue.

ummm i'm pretty sure Emmanuel Steward knows what he's talking about, and i agreed that they should have stopped the fight, i'd rather have the guy live to fight for another day than end up dying from complications or end up in a coma like Oscar Diaz

You're the only one who mentioned Steward. He was talking about Merchant and Lampley. And it was mainly Merchant. Merchant even asked one of the commissioners why this fight isn't stopped. And they were talking about the body punches. Not a lot of guys going comatose due to volume body punches. And Merchant was acting like the fight should be stopped in the first half. Did you really agree with that? Were you calling for early ends to head shots fights like Gatti/Ward, Marquez/Vasquez, Lacy/Calzaghe, Castillo/Corrales, etc. Even if you were okay with it being stopped later into the fight you have to admit Merchant had jumped the gun...then kept going on about it.