Both guys hit opponents who were already on the canvas, very hard. Barrera hit JMM. Abraham hit....oh, yeah, Dirrell. Whose was worse?
I was going to put a youtube link of Lennox Lewis holding Mike Acey and hitting him three times when he was down, but I see it's off youtube now.
well both fighters were knocked down when it happened. dirrell had slipped when abraham clipped him. either way, both were intentional and shitty.
That could be it. I never did get around to seeing that fight so if that was his point that would be why I missed it. On the other hand, we're dealing with Double L here so it's probably not so much a point he was making as opposed to just an outlet to vent.
Hitting downed opponents happens all the time. Usually refs don't do shit. Sometimes they warn them or take a point away, but pretty much the only time it ends in a DQ or no-contest is when the guy who gets hit either can't or won't continue. Bowe-Mathis, Jones-Griffin 1, Dirrell-Abraham, Norris-Walker. As I said above, Lewis-Acey was more blatant than any of those DQs (or no contest for Bowe-Mathis), Lewis actually held his neck and then hit him three times when he was down, but since Acey didn't do an acting job like Griffin, the fight went on, and all Lewis got was a warning. Norris on Leonard was more blatant too, Norris basically ran across the ring at a falling Leonard and hit him when he was down. All he got was a warning too.
I'm pretty sure that Carlos Maussa hit somebody not only when they were down but flat on their back and he punched him flush in the face again. I don't even think he got any kind of a warning because the fight was over. I'm pretty sure it was against Vivian Harris.
This was pretty brutal. He was lying on his side and Maussa hit him in the side of the head. I can't believe the ref didn't do shit about this one. :notallthere: <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l1yDt4c_fIg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l1yDt4c_fIg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
I think the point here is that referees, as they do with holding (and the enforcement of just about every other rule), are inconsistent at best, biased and crooked at the worst. With enforcement of the rules like this it's no wonder that fighters fake injury from low-blows and from being hit while they're down. The bottom line is, if referees were consistent, we wouldn't have fighters manipulating outcomes - since the outcome of the foul would be predictable regardless of the injury sustained from the foul. Ultimately, this would lead to a more consistent adherence to the rules. But, referees, being the stupid products of nepotism and political favors that they are, will continue, at least in the near future, to contribute to the absurdity of this sport.
Yep. I mean if you look at that affair in Mexico recently, it seemed to be taking forever for them to arrive at the correct decision, and the fucking son of Sulaiman seemed to be announcing the outcome before the referee......
