Fights that went the distance but you would have been okay with the referee stopping the fight

Robert Hines-Matthew Hilton

 

Wladimir Klitschko vs Wach.

 

Joe Calzaghe vs Roy Jones jr

 

Holmes Cobb

 

Thrilla in Manila is a classical an weird case; because both fighters were at the end of their ropes.
Barney Ross versus Armstrong is a classical example.

 

Mark Kaylor v Dwight 'Tiger' Walker - Kaylor had so much blood loss from cuts that the ring, both combatants and the referee looked like they had been in the prom scene from Carrie. But the ref would not stop the fight and never appeared to call in a doctor and when the final bell rang he awarded the fight to his countryman Kaylor. Who probably needed a transfusion later.

 

Pacquiao-Margarito
Holmes-Cobb
Hopkins-Joppy

 

Naseem Hamed vs Wayne McCullough

 

I think the ref made the right decision to let the fight go on, but a lot of people thought the first Fury V Usyk fight should have been stopped in the 9th round when Fury was rocked to his boots.

I still can't believe Fury also got up in the 12th round by that combo by Wilder in their first fight in 2019, and won the rest of the round. Most boxing fans are IMO fairly unsympathetic when it comes to these things because they don't know what its like being in their shoes - and they want entertainment. However, I think most of them would have understood if the referee had waved it off when Fury fell onto the canvas then.