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I agree a fresher Johenneson would have prevailed. A hard career of taking shots plus all the shots he had already walked through in this one, added together and he had just hot his bolt by the 9th. After he walked onto that left hook his legs just went and the ref was correct to pull him out.

Deserter wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:CJ was robbed of a stoppage which was a shame.

Why do you say that James?

Sorry, meant to say knockdown, not stoppage.

Fantastic fight - Johanneson is one guttsy so and so.

Impressed with the way Mitchell stuck at it and never gave up.

steve689 wrote:I agree a fresher Johenneson would have prevailed. A hard career of taking shots plus all the shots he had already walked through in this one, added together and he had just hot his bolt by the 9th. After he walked onto that left hook his legs just went and the ref was correct to pull him out.

I think people are discrediting the boxing lesson that Mitchell was giving in the opening 3 rounds. I think the pummelling he took in those rounds, were more damaging than the pummelling he took throughout his career - for this particular contest.

steve689 wrote:I agree a fresher Johenneson would have prevailed. A hard career of taking shots plus all the shots he had already walked through in this one, added together and he had just hot his bolt by the 9th. After he walked onto that left hook his legs just went and the ref was correct to pull him out.

Disagree - I actually thought Johanesson performed better in this fight than many others - until that final round he was taking a lot of punches on the gloves and his defence was credible considering the amount of shots Mitchell was throwing.

I think Mitchell could have actually won the fight a lot earlier if he had boxed the way he was instructed to do - at stages he looked bloody good - to be honest I thought the fight was very similar to Haye/Thompson - where you saw Haye come out blasting and almost punching himself to a standstill - this in my view almost happened to Mitchell - and I think it is a credit to Mitchell and the corner work that Mitchell dug deep into the reserves by beating a very good operator in Johanesson.

Deserter wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:CJ was robbed of a stoppage which was a shame.

Why do you say that James?

I'd had a few by the time CJ and Mitchell were fighting, and I was half watching, but was the CJ under any more pressure at the time of stoppage that Mitchell in the 6th? Had the ref jumped in would everyone be screaming a farce? Also, how did the knockdown not get counted - shocking.