So sad. This referee should have banned for life.

This is terrible, truly heart-breaking. It's easy for people to trash on boxing sitting on the sidelines. Boxing, while at times it can be portrayed as a beautiful sweet science with victorious and happy measures, there is a darker, deeper sinister side that most don't see.

 

The doctor has plenty to answer for in this one too.

 

As sad a story as I've seen in the sport....I can't believe that, for all the safety precautions available in this day and age, boxing is still making mistakes like this with fighter's lives. Tragic all around.

 

Williams and that scumbag ref should be banned from boxing for life.

 

Rabbit punches should be treated far worse than low blows. It has no place in boxing.

 

I watched his second last fight live in Toronto. I distinctly remember thinking that his guy had it all a promising career as a professional athlete, charisma and youth.

Sad to see all that promise and potential unfulfilled and a life ruined.

 

This. Low blows are painful. Rabbit punches can kill or maim.

 

@TinFoilHat - Please delete that post, every time a thread goes down that route it attracts the worst elements of this forum. I don't snitch on other posters but someone may report you and mods could ban your account.

As for the OP, very sad. The people who throw the word "coward" around this place to describe a boxer they dislike should remember the risk involved.

 

Just awful to read that story. Boxing is no game. You don't "play" it.

 

Typical CYA...otherwise they'll just invite serious lawsuits...!!!

 

The doctor more than the ref.