According to Dan Rafael who was ringside.....Dirrell was receiving instructions not to stand and fight....to stay down
You can
hear his corner saying this. Here is Dirrell going down. If you watch, he gets to his knees ~15 seconds after this video starts:
Here, he looks at the ref:
Ref says "Are you okay?" He nods:
Goes to get up, some motherfucker's shouting clearly heard from outside the ring "STAY DOWN! STAY DOWN!!!":
Having heard the instruction from his corner, Andre stops trying to get up & decides to convert to Islam & debases himself at the feet of the Most High:
Then he looks up
again:
& once more you can hear, loud & clear, someone shouting "STAY DOWN" from outside the ropes:
He's even fuckin'
talking to whomever is shouting "stay down", clearly watching them:
& only as the doctor closes in does he subside on to his face:
Just an aside, I'm the last person to throw anything low at a fighter who doesn't wanna fight any longer (my cousin got hurt in the ring & my uncle suffers from pugilistica dementia after a long career as a journeyman light-heavy/punching bag for heavies), seriously, the last person to diss anyone who just don't wanna fight...
But that is some Luis fuckin' Santana level bullshit there. I hope Uzcategui gets a rematch & knocks him into the middle of next week.
PS: Apologies for taking up space with the half-arsed frame-by-frame, but I felt this is important, it's so fuckin' blatant.
PPS: &, of course, whichever of Dirrell's relatives hauled off & attacked the fighter afterwards, lock the motherfucker up. Attacking a man with bare hands who's wearing gloves, sonofabitch...