Wait, you mean you’re not going to fall down when I punch you?
If you could hear Roger Bowling’s inner-monologue around the second round of his most recent fight – the end of a trilogy with Bobby Voelker – you would hear this incredulous question.
Then, if referee Josh Rosenthal had not – as many refs do – placed his hand over the microphone, you would have heard Bowling ask those six words that spell disaster: “Why did you stop the fight?”