Bear Hugger Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 So was the knock down in the fifth round legit, or was it low? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ledhed1 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Low blow for me. Bottom edge of the waistband = low. Square on the line is not below so fine. We all know the low blow rule; the fighter has up to 5 minutes to recover. We never see a fighter take much more than 30-60 seconds. Some buzz that Usyk milked it but 5 minutes is the rule; he was entitled. Dubois's punch resistance one of the lowest in the division. Quit vs Joyce when had he sucked it up, he'd have won. 3x down vs Lerena who should have finished him off. Now this. Lerena and Usyk both blown up cruisers who don't hit particularly hard. Not a performance that engenders much hope for Usyk vs Fury but it's the fight that's got to happen. Between the two of them, they've beaten every one else of note in the division. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 That punch might technically have been just a hair low, but not low enough to cause the pain Usyk showed. Puhleez. That's why boxers wear cups. I never realized until now what a pussy Usyk is. ------------- - And why is no one talking about the bullshit stoppage? That's a classic move from Pabon, the most corrupt referee in all of boxing. I'm not a Dubuois fan, but he fought surprisingly well against Usyk (or maybe Usyk was a little off) and who knows what might have happened if he turned it up in the last 2 rounds. That stoppage was enough BS to fertilize an entire Iowa cornfield. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Hugger Posted August 28 Author Share Posted August 28 So what happens to the WBA regular title now? Since Usyk Is super champion, is it vacant? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 --- Classic example of why Boxing is in the dumps when folks can't understand a simple event resulting in near every big fight being a controversy Seen several replays, most of which are useless because the impact is hidden, but it was an uppercut tweener that caught the legal lower part of the beltling, but most tellingly, "pay attention," the knuckles catching underneath the beltline that would not only be the main illegal impact area, but may have lifted the protector up as well. Pabon not having instant replay makes a safe decision in ruling the punch was not intended to be a foul, so no deduction is my understanding, but gives Usyk time to recover. I did not see the fight and only comment on what I did see. Duboi won a single round on two judges' card, and two rounds on the other, and that's it, as near a shutout as can be had. https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Oleksandr_Usyk_vs._Daniel_Dubois Boxrec fans score it even wider, a complete shutout. Oleksandr Usyk W-KO Daniel Dubois Judges 78-73 | 79-72 | 79-72 Fans 80-71 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 I thought the punch was ok. It certainly took the wind out of Usyk's sails. He wasn't getting up if a count had been administered. The debate is raging all over the net - many knowledgeable posters on either side of that debate. The fight was a pretty decent spectacle though the rain soaked ring didn't help. It was a tame ending from Dubois, he seems to lack the steadfast resolve to overcome the rough patches. There can be no doubting the low blows in the Ajagba vs. Zhan Kossobutskiy fight, later that night. Boxing has found a new Andrew Golota. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 (edited) Back on Top after the win replacing Joshua. Think Boxrec needs to employ AI or even a human to tweak the rankings. Edited August 28 by WelshDevilRob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 9 hours ago, Bear Hugger said: So what happens to the WBA regular title now? Since Usyk Is super champion, is it vacant? WBA have just announced that they're scrapping having more than one champion at Heavyweight. Which is a long time coming. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 58 minutes ago, WelshDevilRob said: WBA have just announced that they're scrapping having more than one champion at Heavyweight. Which is a long time coming. Wow ! I think I'd better start keeping a close watch on my butt from now on, because bats could start flying out of it any day now.... I don't care if pigs start flying. As long as they don't poop on my truck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mofo2 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 (edited) I just dont see it as a low blow, bang on the line for me, anything below the belly button, but his was covered with the groin guard and his shorts were slightly high; a poor decision! Edited August 30 by mofo2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Hugger Posted September 1 Author Share Posted September 1 On 8/28/2023 at 9:07 PM, WelshDevilRob said: WBA have just announced that they're scrapping having more than one champion at Heavyweight. Which is a long time coming. Mahmoud Charr has returned to his previous secondary title status. A legal settlement between parties has forced the WBA to abandon its own title reduction campaign and reinstate Charr as its ‘Regular’ heavyweight titlist. The ruling was made less than a week after the sanctioning body eliminated the title following Daniel Dubois’ ninth-round knockout loss to unified WBA ‘Super’/IBF/WBO titlist Oleksandr Usyk (22-0, 14KOs) on August 26 in Wroclaw, Poland. source: https://www.boxingscene.com/mahmoud-charr-reinstated-wba-regular-heavyweight-titlist-ordered-next-face-jarrell-miller--177390 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 On 8/30/2023 at 4:46 PM, mofo2 said: I just dont see it as a low blow, bang on the line for me, anything below the belly button, but his was covered with the groin guard and his shorts were slightly high; a poor decision! Exactly my view of it. Technically it could be called low, if you follow the WBC rules that state below the naval (but the unified rules say it's below the waistline) and it does hurt when your cup gets driven into your torso, but there's no way it cause the kind of pain Usyk was pretending to be in. - And yes I've been hit there plenty of times. And not for nothing, but Usyk pulled the exact same stunt in the second AJ fight. I mean EXACTLY the same. We all gave Usyk the benefit of the doubt then, but now I'm thinking that maybe AJ deserved to win that fight after all. And mind you, I've been a huge Usyk fan from when he stated rising through the CW division. But what's right is right. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshDevilRob Posted September 4 Share Posted September 4 On 9/1/2023 at 7:19 PM, Bear Hugger said: Mahmoud Charr has returned to his previous secondary title status. A legal settlement between parties has forced the WBA to abandon its own title reduction campaign and reinstate Charr as its ‘Regular’ heavyweight titlist. The ruling was made less than a week after the sanctioning body eliminated the title following Daniel Dubois’ ninth-round knockout loss to unified WBA ‘Super’/IBF/WBO titlist Oleksandr Usyk (22-0, 14KOs) on August 26 in Wroclaw, Poland. source: https://www.boxingscene.com/mahmoud-charr-reinstated-wba-regular-heavyweight-titlist-ordered-next-face-jarrell-miller--177390 Yeah, I seen that. Boxing never ceases to amaze. Charr vs Miller for a 'World title'. They better have VADA testing for this one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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