Hey Jorj,
No, it wasn't the best night for boxing. But a bad night of boxing is better than a good night of ice skating anyday. Unless it's a good hockey game, of course.
Ok, onto my spiel. I'm glad - while always looking for a friendly, sports-related fracas :) - that someone else thought as I did on Derrick Jefferson's leg. I heard they amputated it immediately after the fight, but the doctors labeled the procedure a "heart transplant." <ggg>
It's no big secret that many corner/boxer teams have or had codes set up such that they can "coordinate" a throw (i.e., "when I say, 'That water tastes funny,' it means, 'I'm not going to win this one, we need to get it no contested.' Thus, they begin talking up the knee/shoulder/thumbed eye/etc.
Not saying that Jefferson did this, of course. But I don't think that his leg was hurt - or not as bad as he indicated with that stiff-legged walking and grimacing - and I blanched at the "courage" the commentators gushed about.
Now that - in the past 10 months or so - we've had Orlin Norris, Derrick Jefferson, and less but still, (big) Klitschko quit fights or have them stopped because of some grandly displayed, fight-incurred "injuries," I'm going to be on the lookout for more of this.
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