Realistic wrote:You sir are an idiot. The plan was always to make JB work hard in the first 6 rounds and break him which is exactly what happened. There was very little wrong with the elbow which he was using fine all night afterwards (only put the ice pack on it when there was press or cameras around) He was taking left hooks to the body and winced a few times. He brought his elbow down to protect his body and one punch hit his elbow. Dead elbow worse case. Look at NC during the Fonfara fight - thats how not to quit and JB knew he was going to get stopped. Go educate yourself and learnTheLeprechaun wrote:Braehmer was much better than Cleverly tonight.
However, pulling out like that raises some questions.
I don't think it's fair to jump to a conclusion and say that Braehmer was on his way out and was breaking down. He was happy to stand in the pocket with Cleverly - he was deciding to do that and getting the better of it by a long way. So it strikes me as anti-Braehmer/pro-Clev bias to say that Braehmer was on his way out.
He did quit though. But I tend to believe that he was injured. I had him winning most of the rounds and he didn''t look like he was wilting at all to me. He took his foot off the gas for sure but it's ridiculous to assume that is because he was wilting when it could have been from the injury.
If he wasn't winning the fight clearly and to be fair - pretty comfortably, then I'd see it but due to how the fight was going, I think Braehmer genuinely was injured and Clev caught a very lucky break.
Lets see what happens in the rematch.
