Coach Robert Garcia is crucial of the nook’s failure to cease the struggle within the second spherical after Tim Tszyu suffered a minimize in his struggle towards Sebastian Fundora final Saturday night time.
Robert says that the cutman was unable to cease the bleeding from Tszyu’s scalp wound. the match ought to have been stopped and it could have been a no contest.
The followers on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas would have been sad, clearly, however Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) would nonetheless be the WBO junior middleweight champion.
Lots of the followers that got here to the occasion had been there to see Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz, not Tszyu or Fundora. So far as the followers had been involved, Cruz was the one they got here to see, so he’d received his struggle, the principle occasion between Tszyu and Fundora was much less vital.
So, if Tszyu had pulled out after two rounds due to his minimize, lots of the followers wouldn’t thoughts.
Early Stoppage Most popular
“Instantly, second spherical, I’d have stopped it,” stated coach Robert Garcia to ESNEWS about Tim Tszyu’s minimize final Saturday night time in his struggle towards Sebastian Fundora.
“‘My fighter can’t proceed with all that blood popping out,’” stated Robert, describing what he would have stated as the rationale to drag Tszyu out within the second spherical if he had been his coach. “All that blood popping out to weaken the fighter.
Defending the Fighter
“The ref and the physician, they don’t know. So, they must go by what the fighter says. They’ve to guard the fighter. So, they might cease it and that might make it a no contest. Who cares if 10,000 individuals are going to be mad? They already had a superb efficiency from Pitbull, so that they had been completely happy already.
“Tim Tszyu nonetheless would have been a champion proper now. If it occurs earlier than the fourth spherical and it’s that dangerous, you don’t want a cutman. Cease the struggle. It was a minimize that they couldn’t cease,” stated Robert.
We’ll see if Tszyu chooses to stick with his coach and cutman after final weekend’s fiasco. He appears loyal, so he could select to maintain them on. If Tszyu suffers an analogous minimize sooner or later, his nook should cease the struggle moderately than go away him on the market to bleed throughout creation.
“It wasn’t that that they had a foul cutman. They didn’t want a cutman. It occurred earlier than the fourth spherical. Cease the struggle, and he’d be residence because the champion. Now, he misplaced and now he has to start out throughout. Now his pay might be going to drop. The nook ought to have accomplished it as a result of the fighters need to struggle,” stated Garcia.
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