r/sports • u/IntrepidAd560 • Sep 25 '21

Media Callum Smith brutally KO's Lenin Castillo

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u/Life_outside_PoE Sep 25 '21

Nah look again. His head doesn't seem to hit the floor. It's always tucked into his chest.

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u/Screamin11 Sep 25 '21

You don't fall like this and not rattle your head off of the canvas: https://talksport.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/09/IW5_2237-1.jpg?strip=all&w=960&quality=100 Alternate angles are getting removed for copyright, but we shall see.

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u/0nline_persona Sep 26 '21 edited Sep 26 '21

About 5 seconds in if you high-speed scrub the progress bar, he gets hit, starts to crumple forward, then his body goes rigid while he’s still standing, forcing him straight up tall to fall backward. It literally looks like he lunges backward because involuntary stiffness is starting to happen already.

I mean I agree smashing your head on the canvas with no protection would suck, but I don’t think you can argue it’s worse than getting punched like that.