Shannon Sharpe
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Yeah.
What'd you think?
At times like this, I know fighters, you know the mentality that they have, whether it's MMA, whether it's boxing, well, hell, whether it's combat sports in general.
Most of the time, you want to go out on your shield.
Absolutely.
You want to go out on your shield, Joe.
But in this case, sometimes a referee or sometimes your goddamn corner needs to save a fighter from himself and get an unnecessary damage.
I watched the clips.
Obviously, I wasn't able to watch the fight because I was playing basketball today.
But based on what I saw,
where he wasn't able to protect himself after going down, you get back to your feet and you have a barrage of punches and you're getting hit with almost everything.
Somebody got to protect you from yourself.
I understand that.
And people that are saying, well, obviously it was a good opponent for Usyk.
He gave him somewhat of a challenge.
But in them deep waters, in them championship rounds, if you're not able to protect yourself and fight back,
You got to step in there.
You got to step in there.
Hey, take your time, bro.
Hey, take your time.