Told You That Hitchins Would Be Tested - NOT A Robbery

[00:00:00] Richard said Hitchens escapes with a robbery that's what the online saying Combat Talk.FFM my name is Leicester

[00:00:06] I said in my preview that Hitchens was gonna be tested

[00:00:10] I said that Lemos was more active. I said that he had he had just been busier

[00:00:15] You know, he was in the ring more there was more from him and so I figured he was you know

[00:00:20] The Hitchens is gonna be tested. He damn sure was tested as you know Lemos took everything

[00:00:25] Everything he had and the big criticism was really around the holding and I wanted to talk about that

[00:00:30] I think that's worth discussing here's the problem that you know some people don't understand but

[00:00:38] The bottom line of the whole holding situation

[00:00:41] Paulie Melonagi once said

[00:00:43] It's legal if the ref let you get away with it. This goes back to the you know Jeff Horn and many pack you out and then Brisbane

[00:00:50] and time immemorial

[00:00:52] You know Tony weeks and may weather my down-to-one

[00:00:56] It goes to whatever the ref get let you get away with it's legal

[00:01:00] And so what Hitchens did was legal people keep going but Rubo excessive clinch excessive

[00:01:06] It's legal if the ref lets you do it and so your job Paulie said it your job as a fighter is to

[00:01:12] Test that limit test what the ref let you get away with and then go after it

[00:01:16] I mean jeez do we do we forget about subtle Lorenzo right one

[00:01:20] A brutal freaking fight do we do we forget about Norwood gainer you know dirty is all hell

[00:01:26] I mean there's just fights all way back that that's what it is

[00:01:30] So I'm not excusing anything. I'm saying Hitchens is gonna be tested

[00:01:34] I told everybody Hitchens is gonna be tested. I knew he was gonna be tested because obviously it's gonna be tested

[00:01:39] And so seeing him get tested like he did

[00:01:42] You know, this is the guy talked about he was gonna smash Devon Haney and all that. I mean you need to quiet that noise down but

[00:01:47] You know the robbery claims. I mean some people said and

[00:01:52] Unfortunately, they're they're scoring again. Okay power punches only thing that matters and whatever no

[00:01:56] I I felt like two of the score cards were fine

[00:02:00] You're always gonna have that third judge because of where they sit. That's whatever the f right

[00:02:04] I felt two of the score cards, right? It's like I said

[00:02:07] I said I thought Lemus would get a close win or be a draw

[00:02:12] That's my call

[00:02:14] Goes close arguably close for Hitchens on the cards. Well, you know

[00:02:18] I I'd suspected that Lemus is gonna have to do something to get in and that's what we saw

[00:02:24] So I didn't have any problems necessarily what I saw

[00:02:27] I know some people just again. They're all about the clenches

[00:02:29] That's what they don't like and that's cool

[00:02:30] It's fine to not like the clenches

[00:02:32] There's nothing wrong with being angry about the clenches

[00:02:34] I'm just simply saying what I saw was not the robbery people are claiming

[00:02:38] I think it was unfortunately a close fight because Hitchens knew he had to nullify an overly aggressive fighter

[00:02:44] Because Lemus is gonna bring everything he had

[00:02:47] So maybe Hitchens listen to the show because that's exactly it went down exactly like I said

[00:02:52] I said Lemus is just he's been more active. He's been busier. He's been in there and kudos to him for Hitchens for doing what arguably

[00:03:01] Helped him eat out of wind now

[00:03:04] It can justify a rematch if they choose to do a rematch

[00:03:07] I doubt they do a rematch. I think Hitchens runs with that wind

[00:03:10] And I know people are pissed off and I understand I did not see a robbery. I saw a close fight

[00:03:16] I saw that Hitchens did do a lot of clenching not I'm not saying no

[00:03:20] I'm saying you did do a lot of clenching

[00:03:22] It's whatever the ref let you get away with the ref let you get away with it

[00:03:24] So you're gonna bang on somebody bang on the ref

[00:03:27] Farza third judge

[00:03:28] Whatever happens every fight depends on what they sit

[00:03:31] It's fine because you had two close cards. Okay, they're close

[00:03:34] It's not like it was a blowout, you know eight rounds

[00:03:37] For Hitchens across the cards that would be a robbery because that's not what you saw

[00:03:42] So I just I figure people are getting too angry over that one card and the clenching

[00:03:48] It wasn't a robbery

[00:03:49] It's just Hitchens did what he had to do

[00:03:52] To nullify an aggressive fighter and that was effective and what he did

[00:03:55] Do I think that he deserved the win?

[00:03:57] I mean like I said, I felt like Lemus would have as I predicted would win a close fight

[00:04:02] That's what I felt it's like I think

[00:04:05] If he's going in he wins close

[00:04:08] It just so happened the judges went a little bit different way and gave one round to Hitchens that you know

[00:04:12] Whether I agree or disagree. I mean some of those rounds

[00:04:15] It was not easy for you to say okay, it was this person that

[00:04:18] So I am not telling you that you don't have a right to be angry

[00:04:22] You can be pissed off all you care to I'm saying I didn't see a robbery. I saw I I saw a competitive fight

[00:04:28] I saw one guy who was going for broke and Lemus and I saw one guy who was trying to nullify it and Hitchens

[00:04:35] I saw Hitchens get all he can handle

[00:04:37] I saw Hitchens that has no business in the ring with a devineeany all of that's true 100% straight up

[00:04:42] But I didn't see robbery I saw a close fight that really probably should be run back

[00:04:47] And if you get a different ref in there just like with me whether my Donna getting you know

[00:04:51] Kenny Bayless in there to nullify the the bullshit that

[00:04:54] Chino was doing then maybe we do see a different outcome and I think that's the right answer

[00:04:58] Just kind of move on with it, you know, it is what it is

[00:05:00] But I I do not see robbery folks. I see a close fight that unfortunately went the way of Richardson Hitchens

[00:05:07] You know, and did not go the way I thought Lemus should have won

[00:05:11] As I predicted and even as I saw