Referee Tony Weeks authored the worst early stoppage in current reminiscence just a few weeks again when he gave Rolando Romero a TKO win over Ismael Barroso regardless of Barroso touchdown extra and heavier punches than Romero within the remaining alternate. Although the Nevada State Athletic Fee has predictably refused to deal with the difficulty, Weeks lastly broke his silence in an interview with NY Fights.
If something, his clarification makes issues worse.
“What was in my thoughts was, a 40 yr previous fighter, in a younger man’s sport,” Tony Weeks informed me. “Any official will let you know, you get a combat, and a fighter is at a complicated age, you’re going to have a look at him just a little tougher than the opposite fighter…After I have a look at a fighter who’s up there in age, there’s two issues I have a look at: his response when he takes his first hit, and his stamina within the later rounds. Up till the stoppage, Romero didn’t actually land flush, he landed flush in that final spherical. When he landed flush, Barroso went down. It informed me proper then and there, I don’t know if he can take it.”
As Luke Thomas factors out, that’s full nonsense. Barroso didn’t go down when Romero landed flush; he obtained rattled by a left hook, however Romero whiffed on the follow-up, planted his glove in opposition to the aspect of Barroso’s head, and shoved him to the mat. The one one that “went down” after getting hit flush in that combat was Romero within the third.
Weeks goes on to say that he wouldn’t have stopped the combat if he’d been in a greater place to see that none of Romero’s punches have been touchdown and Barroso solely “doubled over” to slide the photographs and are available again with proper hooks, however that’s inappropriate. The actual fact is that Weeks, with no trace of disgrace, admits that he gave one fighter preferential therapy.
Even when it gained’t get anyplace, Romero’s workforce couldn’t have requested for higher ammunition in the event that they decide to a protest.
