Controversial fights where the referee deeply affected the outcome

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  1. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What are some controversial fights where a referee has made some outlandish, poor, and bogus decisions that really affected the fight outcome? Whether it be a ref who is constantly interfering and showing bias / favoritism, letting one fighter get too rough and dirty, DQing a fighter for no apparent reason, stopping a fight prematurely, calling a BS knockdown or making a bogus decision of taking a point away from another fighter that would ultimately cost them from winning the fight, what are some examples of a fighter losing a fight because of poor refereeing?
     
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  2. Devon

    Devon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Joshua vs Parker
    Klitschko vs Povetkin
     
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  3. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hatton-Tszyu
    Hatton-Mayweather

    Neither contro though
     
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  4. sweetsci

    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Chavez-Taylor comes to mind.
     
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  5. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Freddie Norwood vs Derick Gainer. The ref made a mockery of the whole fight, especially the ending.
     
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  6. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    The Dempsey-Sharkey fight ending was pretty terrible.

    The more I thought about it, the more I think there wouldn't have been any strong argument against Sharkey being the winner had the ref dq'd Dempsey on the spot.
     
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  7. William Walker

    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Tony Perez did some nasty calling in the Super Fight II and in Hagler vs. Roldan. The ref for Tillis-Shavers was awful. Tyson-Ruddock I.
     
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  8. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Seriously can’t forget this nasty display of refereeing.
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    Was just about to write that one. Was a disgrace! Couldn't help but smile when Mares got destroyed by Jhonny Gonzalez because of this
     
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  10. Flo_Raiden

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    That was one of the most satisfying fight I’ve seen. Karma was gonna get to him at some point. Only wish he got low blowed to death before the stoppage.
     
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  11. Bujia

    Bujia Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Most egregious example I’ve probably ever caught.

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  12. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Bowe-Lewis

    Bowe was hopping, hands waving in the air when the ref stopped it. Far from a finished fighter.

    That stoppage was a gift.
     
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  13. Flo_Raiden

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    Joe Cortez DQing Humberto Soto against Francisco Lorenzo 1 for absolutely no good reason at all deserves a mention.
     
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  14. sweetsci

    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    George Khalid Jones vs. Beethaeven Scottland. Watched it on TV. The announcers were SCREAMING, as I recall, several rounds before Arthur Mercante Jr. actually stopped it, for him to stop the fight, even stating several times that, "this is how fighters get killed." Scotland died from injuries suffered in the bout six days later.
     
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  15. Eddie Ezzard

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    Dokes - Weaver 1. Reid - Ottke.
     
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