Comments Thread For: Marvin Somodio on why he stopped Jaron Ennis-Eimantas Stanionis

[BoxingUpdates]

Trainer Marvin Somodio knew he had to end Eimantas Stanionis' lost cause Saturday night ? for his fighter's sake: "You have to know that limitation. You have to know when to stop.?
[Click Here To Read More]

[TheOneAboveAll]

Wretched, meek trainer. Stanionis was dropped, but he was competing well by the end of the round and exchanging hard punches. Why would you stop a fight when your fighter is not out on his feet and he wants to continue?? This guy is the worst trainer in the sport. He transmits his own meek personality. Stanionis has to fire him immediately.

[Corelone]

15 fight wonder. Another one. They went from jumping off the outhouse roof to the Empire state.

[HisExcellency]

Wretched, meek trainer. Stanionis was dropped, but he was competing well by the end of the round and exchanging hard punches. Why would you stop a fight when your fighter is not out on his feet and he wants to continue?? This guy is the worst trainer in the sport. He transmits his own meek personality. Stanionis has to fire him immediately.

Totally agreed…he was looking out for HIMSELF first and foremost in order to secure another payday! At the end of the day, Boots was clearly winning the fight but according to CompuBox, ONLY landed 23 punches more overall. Therefore, his trainer should’ve let the fight continue for at least 2-3 more rounds instead of robbing the fans of an entertaining fight.

Lol Stanionis’ trainer reminds me of a guy I used to play pool with at college called Simon who always looked to play safety shots ahead of making pots so I nicknamed him ‘Safety First Simon’. His trainer has the exact same WEAK mentality!

[Body the jab]

Good call. I remember Butaev was delivering big shots against Stanionis - but Stan didn't go down - he was also hurting Butaev and he went on to win the fight.

Against Boots, the outcome was clear when Stanionis went down and he'd already been softened up with body shots + Stan's punches were losing effect because of the beating he was taking; and even early on, his best punches didn't seem to affect Boots.

[Mushashi]

He made the right decision. Stanionis didn't have enough power to keep Ennis off of him and counter effectively. For every one or two punches he threw Boots was landing 3 and 4 of his own. His face was getting wrecked quick. He wasn't going to rally back and pull off the upset like Arturo Gatti in there.

His newborn baby gets to have a healthy father instead of a punch drunk one

[jqSide]

All the odds are going against Stanionis in that fight. An opponent that is bigger, longer reach, faster hands, feet, crafty mover, and the frustrating part is he clinches when Stan gets to bridge the distance virtually eliminating any chance for making things even. And as usual, the ref does nothing about it. Ennis did the same in the Villa fight. No point in continuing the fight.

[Knuckle sandwich]

He made the correct choice, i want to see a competitive fight, not a good fighter get beaten up; stan will be back.

[lilacp]

Wretched, meek trainer. Stanionis was dropped, but he was competing well by the end of the round and exchanging hard punches. Why would you stop a fight when your fighter is not out on his feet and he wants to continue?? This guy is the worst trainer in the sport. He transmits his own meek personality. Stanionis has to fire him immediately.

I wouldn't use that language; it's hard to be a trainer and see your fighter facing such adversity. But the truth is that Somodio made a mistake. As you and many others have said, Stanionis was still competitive. He wasn't winning, but he wasn't being beaten from post to post. Somodio should have:

1) asked his fighter how he was feeling
2) tell him that if things got worse, he would throw in the towel
3) or say that if things didn't improve in the next couple of rounds, he would stop it

After all that preparation, Stanionis deserved at least one more round; the early stoppage was a dishonor to all the preparation Stanionis put in.

[PNUT901]

I believe that he made the right decision. It was all over but the crying. Stanionis was about to receive a brutal beating and I'm ok with it not having to happen, he's a fellow human being after all.