Froch Off!

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Ridiculous.....

Ref bottled that......

[The Central Scrutinizer]

No he didn’t. Watch it more closely. That is a very flippant remark. It’s not the first punch that does the damage in that type of position it’s the punches that follow. Look what happened to Gerald McLellan when he fought Nigel Benn and Michael Watson a few years earlier. The ref has a duty to ensure the safety of the boxer and in this case he was spot on. It was late into the fight with both boxers beginning to tire. He was correct. I spoke to Mickey Vann yesterday and he said the ref was right. My lad is a pro boxer and I wouldn’t want him to get hurt. The referee’s primary responsibility is the safety and welfare of the boxers at all times. If he thought Groves was in trouble then he has no other option but to stop the fight. Half the boozed up oinks at Manchester on Saturday were there baying for blood. Booing Froch out of the ring was classless – he didn’t stop the fight.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Scott Quigg thinks the ref got it wrong. Opinions eh?

[No2politics]

No he didn’t. Watch it more closely. That is a very flippant remark. It’s not the first punch that does the damage in that type of position it’s the punches that follow. Look what happened to Gerald McLellan when he fought Nigel Benn and Michael Watson a few years earlier. The ref has a duty to ensure the safety of the boxer and in this case he was spot on. It was late into the fight with both boxers beginning to tire. He was correct. I spoke to Mickey Vann yesterday and he said the ref was right. My lad is a pro boxer and I wouldn’t want him to get hurt. The referee’s primary responsibility is the safety and welfare of the boxers at all times. If he thought Groves was in trouble then he has no other option but to stop the fight. Half the boozed up oinks at Manchester on Saturday were there baying for blood. Booing Froch out of the ring was classless – he didn’t stop the fight.

How come all the ex boxers (haye, glen,khan, nelson etc) think it got stopped too quickly. It's a world title fight ! I smell fix

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How come all the ex boxers (haye, glen,khan, nelson etc) think it got stopped too quickly. It's a world title fight ! I smell fix

And Froch was well rocking when put down in the first, there's no doubt in my mind the ref attempted to judge the fighters, Froch is hard, he can get up, Groves not sure, better stop the fight. It's not his job to do that.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Opinions. IMHO I think he got it right. Froch can bang and he may have hit him once too much and caused damage which we don't want to see. I saw Barry mcGuigan fight Young Ali a few years ago. Tragic

[Doggy Styles]

It was late in the fight, the fighters were tired, and it looked for a second or two as if Groves had stopped defending himself. We'll never know what would have happened if the ref had let Froch continue banging him in that attack.

Groves wasn't happy with the ref stopping it, but what he wants an enquiry about is that the judges only had him one round ahead when it happened.

It was a good scrap though, wasn't it.