Maybe the other guy new something about it but he was meant to go longer in the first round and he'd obv be pissed at how suspicious it now looks,also it said before the bell they were close friends,obvioulsy just speculating.
Yeah I actually thought that, the look on his face was almost a 'you fucking dummy, we rehearsed this all week' kind of look
watch it thru to the end - he knows nothing of it,
he basically tells the guy he isnt getting paid and then threatens to go to the dressig room and give him the pounding that he was going to get