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I do not remember the rules for what you can drink in between rounds. For some reason, I think that you can only give water. If that's the case, then the problem with the electrolytes MAY have been addressed before the fight. If this was one of the main reasons for AJ's downfall, I cannot blame AJ too much for his inability to get up.

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I do not remember the rules for what you can drink in between rounds. For some reason, I think that you can only give water. If that's the case, then the problem with the electrolytes MAY have been addressed before the fight. If this was one of the main reasons for AJ's downfall, I cannot blame AJ too much for his inability to get up.

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“His body collapsed,” ALA said. “He allowed himself to be hit. AJ took a lot of punches to the liver. He received too many body punches.”

Should the referee, I inquired, have stepped in more to stop Concepcion from punching while they were locked together?

“I don’t want to make that as an alibi,” he said. “AJ just got hit and hit in the body. AJ should not have held Concepcion’s arm and allowed him to box him using his other hand.”

what puzzled me was that why AJ's corner never gave instructions to hold both concepcion's arms when clinching. or was there an instruction? it looked like there wasn't as AJ never made any attempt to held on to concepcion's right arm that was so free in pumelling his kidney section everytime they clinched. the clinching and the body punches during the clinch was the very big factor why AJ ran out of gas. his corner should have corrected that in the earlier rounds. obviously they never did.........

Only water is allowed until they approve Gatorade. That was being explored by the Nevada commission afaik.
Problem with boxing trainers is a lot of them pass on so many traditions and beliefs.
When Evander Holyfield nearly died after a fight due to dehydration, the doctors were questioning then why boxers don't drink water in between rounds.
The popular belief is if you drink water in between rounds, body punches would hurt more.
Absolute fallacy! Do basketball and football players abstain from liquids during games?

And on AJ's supposedly overtraining, that's bs. When a fighter is overtrained he'd be slow from the 1st round. His reflexes would be shot.

Only water is allowed until they approve Gatorade. That was being explored by the Nevada commission afaik.
Problem with boxing trainers is a lot of them pass on so many traditions and beliefs.
When Evander Holyfield nearly died after a fight due to dehydration, the doctors were questioning then why boxers don't drink water in between rounds.
The popular belief is if you drink water in between rounds, body punches would hurt more.
Absolute fallacy! Do basketball and football players abstain from liquids during games?

And on AJ's supposedly overtraining, that's bs. When a fighter is overtrained he'd be slow from the 1st round. His reflexes would be shot.

And now presenting the million-dollar question: Did AJ open up to his corner during the in-between round breaks that those sucker punches by Concepcion was bothering him?

The corner may have ignored those punches simply because they may have thought those were non-factors.

for me, he was ill-prepared. More of undertrained....they never prepared for such technique.

dear MODS,

the problem is only few here are actually boxing fans, most people here are Pacfans that's why when you ask for constructive criticism, few could only do that because they are unfair to other boxers besides their idol. When Pac is the one who's in trouble they are quick to make excuses like on his 2nd fight w/ Marquez, clearly he was owned in that fight but when it comes to other Philippine boxers most people here judge them easily, calling them names and saying the most harmful things they can imagine. see how few people can only reply here? where are those haters now?

Here are the reasons I think why AJ lost that fight.

1. He failed to finish Concepcion when he got him hurt and he paid for that with a lot of body punches w/ clinging.

2. He didn't do anything with those body punches of Concepcion that somehow looked illegal because Concepcion is holding him while he's doing that. I think that greatly contributed to his downfall.

3. I think his will was broken when he couldn't finish Concepcion, while his opponent on the other hand continues to keep coming at him.

4. I think he was surprised at how tough Concepcion is, he was never pressured that way before and i think he succumbed to it.

5. So all in all the reason I think why AJ didn't stand up when he got knocked down is because of the things I mentioned. I think AJ's conditioning is good btw.

AJ's cornermen/trainers, being former boxers themselves, should know that punches to the body are always a factor to gas out an opponent. ignoring those punches in the kidney or liver section just because these cornermen/trainers thought those were non-factors is for me a very big letdown for them as trainers. AJ's cornermen/trainers should have acted immediately to correct it. they dont need to wait for AJ to complain. as cornermen/trainers they should be observant of what's going on inside the ring. a boxer only feels the punches....but he would never have time to think at that very moment whether the punches that hit him are legits or not.

hire dirty/"magulang" sparmates.

Lack of desire? Come on. His body broke down. It gave up on him. Period.

He even collapsed on the way to the dressing room according to Ed Picson.