The Bizarre Incident

awm · Jul 1, 2026

catchwtboxing said: ↑

Bowe hits Tillman after the bell. Tillman kicks him. A fight breaks out and Rock Newman pulls Tillman over the rope.

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I was actually at this one!!! The fight occurred at the old DC convention center. Me and a friend of mine were laughing when Rock pulled Tillman over the ropes! I can still see his feet going out of the ring! lol...

catchwtboxing · Jul 1, 2026

awm said: ↑

I was actually at this one!!! The fight occurred at the old DC convention center. Me and a friend of mine were laughing when Rock pulled Tillman over the ropes! I can still see his feet going out of the ring! lol...
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MUST BE AN AWESOME MEMORY!

scartissue · Jul 1, 2026

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Most Shocking First Round Knockout Luisito "Lindol" Espinosa over Khaokor Galaxy- WBA Bantamweight

Probably the most delayed delayed reaction knockout you'll ever see.
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I saw this before, it was absolutely eerie.

scartissue · Jul 2, 2026

Finally remembered a 10th round oddity. An obscure fight from the 70s between Paul Ferreri and Sid Vicera. The 10th and final round begins and Ferreri meets Vicera with the traditional touching of the gloves signifying the last round. Well, Vicera ignores the tradition and hauls off and belts Ferreri, dropping him to the canvas - one report said out cold. Of course he was immediately DQ'd.

Saintpat · Jul 2, 2026

I think it’s round 4 when FMJ got tired of Victor Ortiz hugging him and apologizing for a blatant head butt and wins by KTFO.

scartissue · Jul 3, 2026

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I think it’s round 4 when FMJ got tired of Victor Ortiz hugging him and apologizing for a blatant head butt and wins by KTFO.
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Good one. Just added. Ortiz later complained that the ref, Cortez didn't say 'box', but he did say 'OK, let's go'. Semantics, it meant the same thing, so Ortiz' whining was very thin there. I thought it was dirty by Mayweather at the time too, but it is what it is. It's like the old Jack Dempsey line when Jack Sharkey turned to the ref and Dempsey KO'd him. When asked why he hit him when he was turning away, Dempsey said, "What was I supposed to do? Write him a letter."

crixus85 · Jul 3, 2026

2 for the price of one, 10 & 14 ; Ref Goldstein and Sugar Ray respectively, succumbing to the heat in 1952.
Another for a 6th was Danny Williams kayoing Mark Potter with a left hook, having dislocated his right shoulder in the 3rd for the British heavy title in 2000.

Saintpat · Jul 3, 2026

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Good one. Just added. Ortiz later complained that the ref, Cortez didn't say 'box', but he did say 'OK, let's go'. Semantics, it meant the same thing, so Ortiz' whining was very thin there. I thought it was dirty by Mayweather at the time too, but it is what it is. It's like the old Jack Dempsey line when Jack Sharkey turned to the ref and Dempsey KO'd him. When asked why he hit him when he was turning away, Dempsey said, "What was I supposed to do? Write him a letter."
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The dude had hugged it out forever and wanted to kiss and make up some more.

Ortiz committed a flagrant, intentional foul.

He doesn’t then get to carry on endlessly with his ‘apologies.’ Touch gloves, nod, fight.

scartissue · Jul 4, 2026

crixus85 said: ↑

2 for the price of one, 10 & 14 ; Ref Goldstein and Sugar Ray respectively, succumbing to the heat in 1952.
Another for a 6th was Danny Williams kayoing Mark Potter with a left hook, having dislocated his right shoulder in the 3rd for the British heavy title in 2000.
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Both fights added. Just leaves a 15th round now. Anyone got one??

crixus85 · Jul 4, 2026

Another ninth round one, and topical.
Fury doing an involuntary impersonation of Willard 107 years ago, today. Careering around the ring, as Usyk battered him from one side of the ring to the other.

scartissue · Jul 4, 2026

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Another ninth round one, and topical.
Fury doing an involuntary impersonation of Willard 107 years ago, today. Careering around the ring, as Usyk battered him from one side of the ring to the other.
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Really good comparison, Crix, but really nothing other-worldy bizarre or unusual. Let's give a good think for that missing 15th round.

Jamal Perkins · Jul 4, 2026

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You guys want to have some fun? I gotta say that the type of questions posed on this Forum that I love are the ones that make me think. The kind that has me scrolling through my memory like it was a database of sorts. So, I was reading about some bizarre, ring oddity the other day and I thought, for ***** and giggles, let's compile 15 rounds of ring oddities because there does seem to be an inordinate amount of them in our sport. But can we do this per round? I say let's give it a go. Remember, it had to have happened that round and has to border on the unusual. I'll get the ball rolling

1) A) Carlos Zarate v Alfonso Zamora - lunatic from the crowd jumps into the ring interrupting matters until the cops roughly excuse him for the evening. B) Curtis Harper meets Efe Ajagba and when the bell rings for round 1 Harper calmly walks out of the ring and returns to his dressing room. C) Anthony Hembrick v Booker T. Word - Hembrick and his cornermen engage in a cocky synchronized break dance routine that lasts for minutes. When the bell rings Word KOs Hembrick. D) Roberto Duran KOs Pedro Mendoza and then KOs Mendoza's girlfriend when she attacks him. E) Kaleb Slaughter v Curtis Harper - Slaughter bodily forces Harper out of the ring, falls on top of him and begins punching and kicking Harper who wins on a DQ. F) Luisito Espinosa v Khaokor Galaxy - very delayed KO
2) A) Tyson Fury vs Sefer Seferi - a fight breaks out in the crowd and both fighters watch it for a while instead of boxing. B) Juan Martin Coggi v Eder Gonzalez I - Gonzalez drops Coggi, who is so buzzed he is helped by the hometown referee, timekeeper and his corner holding him up on the apron by his shorts to retain his title. C) Harry Duiven Jr. KOs his Dad
3) A) Tony Wilson's Mom starts hitting Steve McCarthey over the head with her shoe. B) John Meekins vs. Mohammed Kawoya - Referee rules a TKO win for Meekins at the exact moment that Kawoya throws a punch that drops Meekins. C) Freddie Pendleton v Ed Pollard - Freddie hits Pollard after the bell ends the round and while being restrained he battles his cornermen and is DQ'd
4) A) Kermit Cintron v Paul Williams - Cintron falls out of the ring and injures himself. B) Riddick Bowe v Elijah Tillery - Bowe hits Tillery after the bell and Tillery begins kicking Bowe until Bowe's manager Rock Newman grabs Tillery around the neck and pulls him over the ropes. C) Andrew Golota v Samson Po'uha - Golota bites Po'uha on the neck. D) Victor Galindez v Mike Rossman II - Galindez continues hitting Rossman after the bell and when Andy DiPiano, Rossman's brother enters the ring to intervene, Galindez hits him too. E) Floyd Mayweather v Victor Ortiz - Ortiz drills Floyd like a torpedo with his head & Floyd quickly responds after Ortiz apologies with a left-right KO before Ortiz gets his hands up.
5) A) Lennox Lewis v Oliver McCall II - McCall suffers a nervous breakdown. B) Bazooka Limon pulls down Sharmba Mitchells shorts mid-round. C) Nate Campbell v Robbie Peden I - Campbell hangs his chin invitingly to Peden and Peden knocks him out.
6) A) Denny Moyer v Cyclone Hart - both fighters fall out of the ring, Hart lands on his head and Moyer injures his ankle - Hart sues the Spectrum for loose ropes. B) Danny Williams v Mark Potter - Williams dislocates his right shoulder and is defenseless until he pulls out a left hook that drops and eventually stops Potter in the same round.
7) A) Holyfield-Bowe II - the fan man incident. B) Albert Davila - Enrique Sanchez - the monsoon that whips up in the open air stadium in Miami.
8) A) Peter Müller vs. Hans Stretz III - Peter Müller knocks out the ref- B) Hilario Zapata vs. Fidel Bassa I - Zapata is tripped by the Bassa corner and a fight ensues where Zapata gets KO'd but is allowed to resume the fight. C) Page v Coetzee - timekeeper blows it and the KO is clocked at 3:48 of the round. D) Leonard - Duran II - No Mas. E) Brian London v Dick Richardson - the Brawl in Porthcawl
9) Ken Salisbury vs. Alex Temelkov - Both corners invade the ring and start fighting with the boxers, with the ref hammering some dude from Temelkov's corner and giving Salisbury the win by DQ.
10) Paul Ferreri v Sid Vicera - beginning of last round Ferreri extends to touch gloves and Vicera clocks him, knocking him out.
11) Virgil Hill v Adolpho Washington - Washington is cut and an overzealous cameraman tries to get a closer look between rounds and bangs his camera right into the cut, opening it wide causing the fight to be stopped.
12) A) Lee Roy Murphy vs. Chisanda Mutti - Fight ends in a double knockdown that only Murphy is able to get up from. B) Roger Mayweather and Lou Duva lock horns after the Vinnie Pazienza fight.
13) Ad Wolgast v Mexican Joe Rivers - the double knockdown where referee Jack Welch starts to count but helps up his buddy Wolgast and counts out Rivers.
14) Joey Maxim v Sugar Ray Robinson - Robinson outlasts referee Ruby Goldstein, who had to be replaced in the 10th round under 104 degree heat, but he couldn't outlast Maxim as he could not answer the bell for the 14th due to heat prostration.
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Magnificent post and thread!!

Saintpat · Jul 4, 2026

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Really good comparison, Crix, but really nothing other-worldy bizarre or unusual. Let's give a good think for that missing 15th round.
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This one has me baffled.

We may have to throw in the towel and stop this project on its stool after 14 with a ‘no one will ever forget what you did here today.’

clum · Jul 4, 2026

Not sure if this is bizarre enough to count, but it was the weirdest round-fifteen happening I could think of. I've included the video below for you to judge for yourself.

Shoji Oguma vs. Chan-hee Park, third bout, about twenty seconds left. Park sticks his head between Oguma's legs and tries to hold on, so Oguma responds by banging on Park's back like a bongo drum. Park then walks over to his corner and sticks his head outside the ropes, as though he intends to walk out on the fight. Rudy Ortega has to tell him to get back to boxing. All this in the final seconds of a very close contest (it went down as a majority decision).

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scartissue · Jul 7, 2026

clum said: ↑

Not sure if this is bizarre enough to count, but it was the weirdest round-fifteen happening I could think of. I've included the video below for you to judge for yourself.

Shoji Oguma vs. Chan-hee Park, third bout, about twenty seconds left. Park sticks his head between Oguma's legs and tries to hold on, so Oguma responds by banging on Park's back like a bongo drum. Park then walks over to his corner and sticks his head outside the ropes, as though he intends to walk out on the fight. Rudy Ortega has to tell him to get back to boxing. All this in the final seconds of a very close contest (it went down as a majority decision).

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Clum, it really didn't seem too 'over-the-top' to mention as bizarre. More rowdy than anything else. However, your mention of Oguma did spark a memory. His second fight with Betulio Gonzalez ended up a bit crazy when the decision was announced. They brought in a trophy to be awarded to the winner and when it was Oguma, Gonzalez went nuts. He ran over and kicked the trophy (if one sees the trophy when it was brought into the ring and eventually when Oguma hoists it, one can see the top missing) and had to be physically restrained by his cornermen until he angrily storms out of the ring. I remember one of the magazines at the time stating, "If Gonzalez shown that much fire during the contest as he showed afterwards he may have won." I don't ever think I've seen a fighter this PO'd at losing a decision. Check it out. Go to the 55:00 mark, which is about where the trophy enters the ring before the decision is announced.

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