Ian John Lewis in Vitali vs Briggs, no way that fight should have gone the distance. Briggs was pummeled for 12 straight rounds, luckily, there wasn't a fatalitythat night.
FAKE NEWS You cannot say things like that! Mills Lane entire gimmick was he took no ****. If it is shown that one of the fights that helped make that reputation was a blown call on his part, it will show perhaps he was merely an OK/good ref who had a personality and used a tap nose gimmick to make an extra few $$$s, while other refs just got on with their job.
Holyfield had a piece of his ear missing, and when Lane briefly stopped the action Holyfield is in his corner and one of his handlers is spraying his bleeding ear with the water bottle! The guy must have thought he was cleaning his ear lol but that was the worst thing he could have done. Human bites are actually very dangerous, there is lots of bacteria in the mouth to get into a wound and cause infection, and then this guy is spraying water that Holyfield had been drinking from into it.
Strangely enough he refereed the 2nd Robinson v Turpin fight, and was criticized for stopping it too early!
The Belgian ref in Reid vs Ottke is by far the worst display of corruption by a ref in a fight that I can remeber.
If I remember correctly the first bite led to bleeding, the second bite was when the chunk of ear was removed. But as you rightly suggest, Lane blew it big time, Tyson should have been thrown out the first time he did it.
Talking of bites, I believe Golota got away with it against Po'uha on Eddie Cotton's watch. Cotton also let Golota (1 point deduction) deliver a fight changing intentional headbutt against Nicholson.
Gomez had maybe the greatest performance I ever saw against another great fighter. But, when he put Carlos down, he knocked him down the second time after the bell. And at the final knockdown hit him on the floor. Gibbs was lost in the ring that night it looked like.
Still, Gomez recovered to land a lead hook that sent Zarate to the canvas toward the end of the round. Zarate took a standing eight-count and immediately began to take more punishment. Gomez followed him to the other ring post and cautiously looked for an opening; seconds later he found one, a clean right hand that staggered Zarate. Not finished, Gomez followed him to the middle of the ring where he sent him down for the second time with a glancing right hand after the bell. The referee, Harry Gibbs, stepped in to start the count, but Zarate had risen and Gomez ran over to him to land one more left hook. The fight was stopped at :44 of the fifth when Gomez knocked Zarate down again and then viciously stepped in to land a straight right as Zarate crawled on his knees. Zarate’s corner threw in the towel even before Gibbs began the count
Clearly, Gibb, one of the most staunchest of referees, was clearly intimidated by the rabid Puerto Rican crowd, who screamed lustily with every foul blow Gomez landed. He let Gomez get away with murder that night. The only bad mark on his refereeing career IMO.
