Quote Originally Posted by ICB View Post
I watched the fight last night despite feeling like sh**, and Paul McCloskey was never in the fight. He was quite slick and Amir Khan didn't land many clean punches, but Paul McCloskey wasn't throwing any punches himself, except the odd jab and straight left hand. But never in combinations just one punch at a time.

I agree with what Bilbo said in the other thread, the way the fight ended was the best Paul McCloskey could of hoped for. Because he would of just gone on to lose a very wide decision, or possibly worse because Amir Khan was landing a bit more frequently.

Even the BBC were of the opinion he quit. This is from their report

'At first the previously unbeaten McCloskey offered little in the way of a protest, perhaps sensing the tide in the fight was turning, although when interviewed afterwards he toed the party line that he had in fact been cheated'.

Even during the post fight interview he was trying to justify why he didn't ask to carry saying that the way the referee was looking at him made him think it was really bad.

Just watching his interaction with the doctor he was clearly not make any attempts to say he wanted to fight on.

I think from the referee's point of view he just saw a guy losing every round, who was now cut, didn't seem impassioned about fighting on and so stopped the fight.

It was a premature stoppage certainly, but no conspiracy. Alexander did the same against Tim Bradley and couldn't continue because of a headbutt in a fight he was losing. But because people don't detest Bradley the same way as they do Khan they didn't start creating silly threads saying how Alexander was on the verge of turning it all around and would have knocked Bradley out had that not happened.

Easy win for Khan, lack lustre effort from McKloskey who was out of his depth, move on to the Tim Bradley in the summer. As a Khan fan even I'm sceptical of his ability to win this fight however, Bradley is going to be one hell of a tough opponent for him.