Boxing commentator Tim Bradley reports that former WBO junior middleweight champion Tim Tzu's corner was unable to stop the fight after four rounds due to an injury sustained in his title defense against Sebastian Fundora last Saturday. Night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas wondering if they didn't know what they were doing.
If the corner had stopped the fight due to the cut, it would have been reflected on the scorecards and Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) would have won, as he was still in the lead at the time.
Instead, Tszyu's corner allowed the fight to continue, and he fought with blood leaking from his eyes and unable to see clearly. Bradley feels Tszyu's corner was ignorant and their pride was also in control.
Bradley's take on the severity of the cut
“The cut was spot on and non-life-threatening. Usually when a fight is stopped it's above an eye cut,” boxing expert Tim Bradley said on the Probox TV YouTube channel last Saturday. He talked about the controversy over why the Tim Tzu vs. Sebastian Fundora match wasn't stopped after Tzu's bad cut. In the second round.
“This was on the top of his head. What he sustained was not a life-threatening injury. [Tszyu] It was in pain, but the doctors didn't think it would get any bigger because of where it was,” Bradley said.
It was surprising that a ringside doctor did not intervene and stop the match due to the amount of blood leaking from Tszyu's cut. The amount of blood leaked should have been enough to stop the contest, even though he told doctors multiple times that he “still can see.”
The role of doctors and Tszyu's determination
“The question you have to ask is, I went back and looked. Every time the doctors brought Tim Tzu in, they asked, 'Can you see?' You know what Tim Tze said? “Yes, I understand.'' “Can you see, Tim Tse?'' “Yes, I understand.'' At that point, it's out of the doctor's hands,'' Bradley said.
Tszyu was not the type to quit over a problem like a cut, so he was proud. It's probably part of his upbringing and something uniquely Australian. Australians are tough people and will not give up even if they get injured.
“Whenever a fighter says he can see, that's when doctors can't help him,” Bradley said. “The bad guys were the ones who didn't know the rules, and that's the problem. There were people in the corner who had no idea what the hell they were doing. There was a little bit of pride involved, and they didn't know the rules. The fact that I didn't know about it had a lot to do with it.
when bradley was stopping the fight
“I would have stopped the fight after the third round. If I hadn't stopped it in the third round, I would have stopped it in the fourth round, maybe the fifth round,” Bradley said.
“If I was coaching him and thought maybe I had a chance to knock this guy out, I would have said, 'Give me two more tough rounds.'” This round was decisive. If we win, we'll pick ourselves up from here,''' Bradley said.
If Bradley had been Tse's coach and he had pulled him, he might not have been too happy with such an action. You have to imagine that Tszyu's trainer was talking to him about cuts between rounds, and if he said he wanted the fight to continue, no wonder the fight wasn't stopped.
