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It's a fair point, but what is a ref to do in the case that a guy keeps flopping to his knees before a clinch even starts though? That in itself doesn't warrant a point deduction in the rules but it certainly should, and calling the KD really just equated to the same thing. How many fights is it really a regular occurance in anyways? I don't think it's a terrible precident to set at all.
I think calling a knockdown when there is no knockdown just because the guy has fucked you off is a dangerous precedent to set, even if it is quite funny.
I understand really, I just can't really agree with that since it's so rare to actually see a fighter going down like that without taking punches or legitimately slipping. Was the standing 8 count in effect for this fight also? I imagine it wasn't or else that would have been a better call technically, but that's besides the point. Haye was deliberately throwing himself to the canvas repeatedly towards the end of that fight, I think it had to cost him somehow, he had been warned repeatedly. It wasn't just the ref he was fucking about with, Haye was really spoiling any potential action and making it a shit fight to watch from about the halfway point. All this would really do is discourage fighters from using such theatrics in the future. And obviously it was really funny.