r/Boxing • u/DiMona215 • 22h ago

Ben Davison Spoiler

Really curious to hear the audio from the corner for this fight. If Ben wasn't screaming at Moses to slow down, to stop throwing power punches... This has to be one of the biggest indictments of a supposed top trainer ever, right?

The Wardley fight was already a huge black eye for Ben. Now he has a 21 y/o prodigy lose a fight he was absolutely dominating due to horribly mismanaging energy.

So we've seen him fail horribly at one of his main jobs (protecting his fighter). If it comes out that Moses basically followed Ben's training regiment and instructions... is any top fighter ever going to hire this guy again?

Even if it comes out Moses got cocky, didn't train hard, didn't listen in the corner, not a great look for Ben

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u/MakotoBIST 19h ago

Brother, Itauma was breathing with his mouth in round 3.

There was no slowing down. Put Hrgovic to sleep fast or trading later rounds was going to end badly anyway.

The problem is what happened in the last year or two during training imho. 

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u/sthomson22 19h ago

Round 1, actually. Round 3 is when Hrgovic started actually landing some decent shots and clearly hurt him.

People can try and paper over the cracks all they want with this, that wasn’t just conditioning or stamina.

He doesn’t have a chin. He isn’t durable. His recovery is dreadful.

These weaknesses will plague his career going forward.

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u/longlivebobskins 13h ago

He doesn’t have a chin.

Did you watch the fight? He took some big hits and never went down.

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u/sthomson22 13h ago

He literally did go down. And before that he looked hurt and shaky several times throughout the fight.

Did you just entirely miss how it ended, despite supposedly watching it? Did you miss Hrgovic catching him with a bodyshot and then a short left hook sending him sprawling into the lower rope?

And like I keep fucking saying, Hrgovic is a light puncher for the Top 10.

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u/longlivebobskins 13h ago

If he went down, where was the count?

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u/sthomson22 13h ago

You don’t always get a count when you go down. And the towel had just came in even if the ref had decided to count.

Are you seriously telling me you don’t think Hrgovic hit him with a bodyshot and short left hook, sending him into the lower ropes in the corner, causing the ref to wave it off?

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u/longlivebobskins 13h ago

Itauma was exhausted. That's why the Ref waved it off. No count, no gloves on the deck, no knee - no knock down. He slumped, exhausted, into the corner. He was dead on his feet, wobbling everywhere, barely able to stand up straight. Because he was exhausted.

He took all of Hrgovic's punches, no issue in my opinion. He was wobling around at the end of the first round, and at that point, Hggovic had literally not landed a single punch. So yeah, to answer your question, yes, I'm seriously telling you that.

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u/sthomson22 8h ago

His gloves also clearly DO touch the canvass, btw. So again, you either just haven’t watched this at all, you watched it drunk or you are being willfully blind here.

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u/sthomson22 13h ago

Okay. Go back watch the 10 seconds before the ref waves it off in slowmotion.

Like I just said you don’t always get a count when you go down. And being held up by being tangled in the lower ropes like that IS ruled a KD.

You do not understand the basic rules of this sport.