Yikes!! :O
But Lebedev’s eye socket being pretty much reshaped, with the 33-year-old all the while pretty clearly unable to properly see out of either eye, makes even such an ardent fight sports fanatic as myself think maybe the politically-correct protesters have a bit of a point.
Referee Stanley Christodoulou, an experienced referee, should know better – a lot better – than to take so many looks at the defeated fighter and allow him to box on, whether he runs the risk of disappointing the partisan crowd in Moscow or not.
Worse still, Kostya Tszyu – the man who quit on his stool in another hard-hitting war against Britain’s own Ricky Hatton in 2005 – was right there, in Lebedev’s corner, and allowed his charge to go to the penultimate round having spent half the fight in such a bad way.
well said i think.