It was defo a paper cut but bashing Khan for it? Really??
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You think that was a good stoppage probably. Whew we didnt have to go through another Maidana incident is probably what your thinking. The doctor comes in and immediately start shaking his head for that lil cut, also what the fuck is he doing jumping in the ring so fast, doctors supposed to stay outside. This shit stinks, I feel sorry for anyone that paid for that shit.
I like Khan, I really do but I'm no fan boy. I just sense that it's somehow far too easy to hate on the guy.
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So are saying that the referee and doctor were both Khan fans, saw him win the first six rounds but sensed he might unravel and so stopped the fight to protect his record and career?
Is that what is meant by hometown cooking?
It's just that to my clearly uneducated mind, that Khan's team, who see him as a business would probably want entertaining fights that draw crowds and get them wanting to see him again rather than unsatisfactary endings like this which may only harm his chances of staging another big PPV fight in Britain on Sky any time soon..
But you are saying it was stopped deliberately to keep Khan's unbeaten run going, because after hanging 12 rounds and winning against the divisions biggest puncher they were understandably worried about his surviving the distance against a relatively light punching Irishman who Khan had pitched a shutout against up to that point?
Hometown cooking refers to a fight being stopped on an extremely insignificant cut. Barrera was able to fight for 4 more rounds whilst being cut to the bone and yet McCloskey was not even able to see out the round and have his cut worked on.
Once again it is rather dodgy hometown officiating and that is what I mean by hometown cooking.
Do you not think the fight was relatively minor and that McCloskey was game to continue. There was no good reason to stop the fight.
I agree the stoppage was awfully premature. I don't think it was done to favour Amir Khan.
If anything it's just taken away from his win. He had pitched a shut out and now thanks to the extremely soft stoppage McKloskey and his team can claim they were always going to stop him late and that he was tiring.
McKloskey gets out of suffering a legitimate defeat and Khan's big homecoming ends in a farce. Sky drop his PPV, he loses a million, and then the referee robs him of an impressively one sided win.
I expect Khan can't wait to get in a plane and back to the USA where he's a more appreciated star.
It was an awful stoppage and this seems to happen far too often when Khan is fighting in the UK. It was the opposite of the Barrera one. That needed to be stopped as it was the worst cut in living memory. This was nothing. The man was game to continue, it could have been fixed by the corner.
Pathetic and a dire reflection once again on British officiating.![]()
Watching it again on HBO think McKloskey actually quit. He even hinted as much when he said the way the doctor was looking at his eye he thought it was really bad. Looking at the footage it seems to me that the doctor asked him if would impair his vision, and he didn't give an enthusiastic response. I mean like the HBO team called watching the interaction, Mckloskey quit.
Also I love Larry's summay, 'Khan did ok against an ameoba level opponent but I'm not calling him King Khan yet'..![]()
The cut wasnt even bleeding, once they interviewed it was already stopped. What a huge gash he cant go on....![]()
Larry Merchant was bang on the money with his comments.
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