Howard Foster - At It Again - Another Poor Stoppage.

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Adam Etches Vs Sergey Khomitsky

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This fight was the chief support on undercard to the Brook - Jo Jo Dan contest last night. Some of you will disagree but it's got to the point where I'm not sure we will ever see another knockout where the ref counts to ten, in a UK ring again.

Do the ten count - Howard. First Groves - Froch 1. Now this ? How does this guy keep on getting these gigs ? Why be so over-dramatic ? And get his gum shield out and then every1 all rushing to the ring. It's almost like he wants every1 to know "Look at how safe I'm being !! I'm just so safe !! I don't want the Boxers to get hurt !!" Which no-one does. But putting a speed limit on the Indy 500, means that's it not the Indy 500.

This knock down was not as bad as it looked. It's not like Hatton - Pac Man. Where Hatton was still. Etches raised his head at the count of 3. It's almost like UK officials are just so full of their own importance that they want a bit of the spotlight. You would NEVER have a Gatti - Ward 1 or a Corrales - Castillio fight in a UK ring. They would have been stopped long before.

I speak as a person who has boxed. I have seen guys in the gym, knocked down hard, sometimes in a face first, Roberto Duran - Tommy Hearns style, but then because of their fitness right back up at the count of seven.

Give him a chance to beat the count and if he does'nt then by all means rush in with the medical staff. Don't get me wrong I thought Etches fought a poor fight and (IMO) on that showing he does not have what it takes to get to the very top level. But I still feel that was a bad stoppage.

I mean - No one wants to see this



Nor do we want to see George Forman - Joe Frazier 1, where Frazier was bounced round the ring, lifted up in the air b4 Eddie Futch said enough is enough. Nor do we want to go back to the 40's and 50's in the Louis, Marciano and Ray Robinson era were a fighter had to be literally beaten unconciouss on the ropes before the ref would stop it (And often even then it was the fighters corner who stopped it by throwing in the towel)

But there has to be point were we say enough is enough.