Richard Steele or mills lane might have stopped that before Gomez had a chance. I quit because I had refs stop my fights and on the replay, you could see the guy was missing by an inch. Even if punches land, as long as someone is rolling away or has their guard up, at worse the ref should give an 8 count. This is why. 90% of the refs would have stopped the fight before gomez knocked hill out
Agree with your point. Sometimes, reasonable doubts can be left, other times less so. This time the referee and Gomez were lucky, if the same knockout blow had been thrown by Hill, Gomez,already shaken, probably could have suffered permanent damage.
@LaGrandeBoxe as a fighter, you train hard, you sacrifice 1000s of hours on a lot of training. Not only that, you are asking family to make sacrifices. Your trainers and coaches making sacrifices. And mostly none of them receiving much of a reward. For me, I'd rather take the chance of getting hurt than having a fight stopped early. I never got hurt in an actual boxing match. I was hurt 1 time in sparring a guy that was 147 pounds and 3 weight classes above me. But i received 8 counts over missed punches. And had a fight stopped over 4 punches that missed me by an inch. I was like an iron Chin, 6 foot, 126 pound Thomas hearns. But those refs drove me away. I'd fight today, but I would have to have a great fighter to fight to be worth my time. But that won't happen. So I just have to let ot go.
@@chrislucastheprotestantview Thanks for your testimony. I was a boxer too, many years ago (in the 90's) and I know what you mean. But life always presents us with new and unexpected challenges. Those are the hardest blows that we have to take and be ready to get up and keep fighting.
@LaGrandeBoxe I boxed in the 90s also. I still wish I could fight 1 more time. I am trying to figure out how UA-cam influence a 130-pound champ to fight me. I want to break the record for oldest boxer to win a title. It's the only way I would fight, I am just too busy to try to work my way to the top. It eats at me that I had all this talent and never really got to show it. The thing that really messed me up to where I quit training, was when I was going to fight in the national Police Athletic League tournament in Michigan and I was going to face the #1 guy in the nation. Dan Duva and many big name promoters were in the audience. I never trained harder for anything, and I always trained hard. And when we get there, my trainer "forgot" my passport. I think he did it intentionally. He remembered everyone else's. And a month later he pulled a similar stunt. I was only 19. And I started training like crap. I didn't realize at the time he did that on purpose. Then I lost a fight where I knocked the other guy down, dominated the fight, and lost. And I just felt frustrated and lost interest and quit.
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Richard Steele or mills lane might have stopped that before Gomez had a chance.
I quit because I had refs stop my fights and on the replay, you could see the guy was missing by an inch. Even if punches land, as long as someone is rolling away or has their guard up, at worse the ref should give an 8 count.
This is why. 90% of the refs would have stopped the fight before gomez knocked hill out
Agree with your point. Sometimes, reasonable doubts can be left, other times less so. This time the referee and Gomez were lucky, if the same knockout blow had been thrown by Hill, Gomez,already shaken, probably could have suffered permanent damage.
@LaGrandeBoxe as a fighter, you train hard, you sacrifice 1000s of hours on a lot of training. Not only that, you are asking family to make sacrifices. Your trainers and coaches making sacrifices. And mostly none of them receiving much of a reward.
For me, I'd rather take the chance of getting hurt than having a fight stopped early.
I never got hurt in an actual boxing match. I was hurt 1 time in sparring a guy that was 147 pounds and 3 weight classes above me. But i received 8 counts over missed punches. And had a fight stopped over 4 punches that missed me by an inch.
I was like an iron Chin, 6 foot, 126 pound Thomas hearns. But those refs drove me away. I'd fight today, but I would have to have a great fighter to fight to be worth my time. But that won't happen. So I just have to let ot go.
@@chrislucastheprotestantview Thanks for your testimony. I was a boxer too, many years ago (in the 90's) and I know what you mean. But life always presents us with new and unexpected challenges. Those are the hardest blows that we have to take and be ready to get up and keep fighting.
@LaGrandeBoxe I boxed in the 90s also. I still wish I could fight 1 more time. I am trying to figure out how UA-cam influence a 130-pound champ to fight me. I want to break the record for oldest boxer to win a title. It's the only way I would fight, I am just too busy to try to work my way to the top.
It eats at me that I had all this talent and never really got to show it. The thing that really messed me up to where I quit training, was when I was going to fight in the national Police Athletic League tournament in Michigan and I was going to face the #1 guy in the nation. Dan Duva and many big name promoters were in the audience. I never trained harder for anything, and I always trained hard.
And when we get there, my trainer "forgot" my passport. I think he did it intentionally. He remembered everyone else's. And a month later he pulled a similar stunt. I was only 19. And I started training like crap. I didn't realize at the time he did that on purpose. Then I lost a fight where I knocked the other guy down, dominated the fight, and lost. And I just felt frustrated and lost interest and quit.
@@chrislucastheprotestantview Nice story. Thanks for sharing it.