Plenty of harm - no foul

Was reading today about a goalkeeper that was shown 2 yellows and the controversy that he was allowed to stay in the game. It got me thinking of fouls in boxing that were overlooked or ignored for one reason or another. Here is one that is so blatant and all he gets is spoken to. This is Floyd Patterson against Charley Green. Check out the sequence at 1:10 of this vid. Green gives Floyd 3 full-blooded rabbit punches before ending it with a tomahawk chop to the back of the head. He's only cautioned by ref Tony Perez, whom I never thought much of. Show me some more blatant fouls that were ignored or received a slap on the wrist.

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That was ridiculous! 3 shots while he was down and nothing?

 

Wow, Gainer-Norwood was foul-filled, but that second fight, the first thing I thought of was that there was no way I would be hugging that pr**k at the end of the fight.

 

Here's one I thought was crazy. The second fight between Calvin Grove and Lester Ellis. Check out at 24:55 of the vid. Ellis goes down and his Australian ref gives him ample time with a slow count and then makes sure Grove is way back in his corner before Ellis spits out his mouthpiece. The ref is about to give him more time when the bell rings. But watch Ellis right after the bell rings. He clocks Grove with a rabbit punch when he was walking away and of course, nothing said or done. It was poetic justice when Grove ended matters.

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This one always made me laugh/cry. The ref was so corrupt. This is Juan Coggi v Eder Gonzalez I and at 1:40 of this clip, the referee actually allows Coggi's cornerman to stand on the ring apron holding the back of Coggi's trunks because he couldn't stand up. And then the timekeeper got involved by ringing the bell early in several rounds. In this round it appears to be app. 20 seconds early. But the foul in this case - besides the corruption - was allowing the corner up on the apron to assist. My God! This one never ceases to amaze me.

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