Which one do you think was the worst and were there any stoppages that should have made the list?

These referees are the best AND worst example of the old saying, "You only had ONE job!"

The fact these guys evan asked the referees to stop the fight says something

Rest In Peace Benny “The Kid”

How much responsibility does the corner have for not throwing the towel in?

"The times the refs had money on the losers"

Ike : "Ref, you gon let me kill this man?" Ref: "Carry on."

Emile Griffith, my favorite fighter. It hurts to know that 99.9% people only know him for his 3rd fight with Paret, not that he is 6x, 3-division champion & has the most championship rounds in boxing history.

3:49 you could not have summed up how I felt about that referee any better.

man your voice is like a cool breeze whilst watching a storm.

this is the best boxing channel by far!!! absolutely love your videos!

Refs were like "ah its OK, they have life insurance."

Masterclass as always, Rainy! Love your narration voice

Hey man, your channel is great, the narrative is awesome, thumbs up from bringing stories from the old school boxing era keep up the good work bro, stay safe

One thing that concerns me is that fighters who are being held up by the ropes while defenseless and taking murderous punishment are only on their feet because of the ropes, therefore the ref cannot give an 8 count since standing 8 counts are no longer allowed. This can have tragic consequences for fighters who take excessive punishment in those scenarios. Many fighters are too foolish to let themselves fall to the canvas when they can no longer fight back and are being hammered, but sometimes its because they are so stunned they don't know where they are or that they should fall down and take the count.

This dude has the greatest narrative voice ever. I hope the right ppl find you.

I really want you to start doing Merch like T shirts and flags, would love a Rainy Day boxing flag in my garage boxing gym, it always rains in England so it would fit my gym down to a tee!

Great video but horrible jobs by the referee's this makes a already dangerous sport even more brutal.

Brutal stuff. Very well edited and put together though.

Many of these are hard to watch, especially Paret's stoppage at the hands of Emile Griffith. The referee and Griffith were never the same after that fight.

Question is why didn't the corner throw the towel in?

When the guy beating the other guy has more concern for his opponent's health than the official...

Love your channel. Can you do a Joe Louis career video? The Joe Louis training in his prime video is my favorite video. I loved it. The music perfectly matched that great man.

Any ref who allows the fight to clearly run past when it should be stopped, should face criminal charges for reckless endangerment.

"Im gonna hurt you" "Shane is hurt"

Great video. It showed madness at different levels. The refs were absurdly incompetent in allowing fighters to continue being pounded in the head while defenseless. In some cases, the corners of some of the fighters could have jumped in and forcefully ended the fight, regardless of consequences. In one scene the ref allowed the fighter to be fatally injured while trying to respect his reputation, how crazy is that? If a fighter is taking repeated power shots to the head unanswered the ref should stop the fight, period. It doesn't matter if the fighter's hands are still up (instinctively) or their corner will be angry that it was stopped, it's the ref who has the right to decide.

Great vids RDB. As a Ref, a supposedly astute referee at that, he should have known the difference between playing possum/ human pin cushion - fkn brutal, man.

Love seeing this

Goddamn I love this channel more voiceovers please keep it up bud 👍

Merci pour cette excellente vidéo

That last one was super depressing

The guy who scream "fucking asshole" to Roger yanez said out loud what we all think I guess.

Great video. One of the worst of the modern era was Duran vs Moore. We all love Duran and watching him sink his teeth into an opponent is what we like to see but that fight should have been stopped 2 rounds before it was. By the end of the 6th, Moore had shipped incredible punishment, had lost any snap in his punches and his right eye was swollen shut. He couldn't win but the referee and his corner let Duran use him as a human heavy bag for another 2 rounds. Jose Torres was screaming at the referee to stop it and that might be the reason he finally did. The first 6 rounds was a boxing match, the last 2 was assault. When a boxing match turns into assault, you stop the fight.

You forgot Tony Zale's KO of Rocky Graziano in their 3rd fight. That shit was brutal

This voice brings this vid together, sounds like a boxing legend

Zale vs Graziano 3 was a very late stoppage and brutal knockout only made worse when Graziano’s head bounced off the canvas

This is a great list. The one not here that I always think of is Holly Holm vs Anne Sophie Mathis I. At one point, Holly gets tangled in the ropes and looks like a corpse and, instead of stopping the fight, the ref simply untangles her and allows Mathis to knock her half way out of the ring. It was truly some of the worse refereeing ever.

Ruddock's knockout of Dokes was very scary

3:49 You can hear someone yell "fuckin asshole", presumably at the ref

I remember seeing the second one on Sportscenter back in the day. Truly brutal. The guy was out on his feet for half of it.

Pff, none of these refs have anything on “If he dies he dies” Mario Yamasaki (UFC).

honestly this is sickening to watch one of the most dangerous things on the planet is a referee with no companion sometimes the fighter needs saving from himself we all love to see a knock out but we don't want to see a man killed

Thanks for video, maybe next one is the most earliest stoppage?)

I sure like your productions. Such heros these men were.. to me they held what it was to be a man...

Bruh mans upper body just fell out 8:00

In a nutshell, this video shines some light on the dark side of boxing. Some of these refs should have been charged for negligence after allowing these fighters to take so much punishment. Perhaps this is why fights are stopped so quickly nowadays?

Looks like these refs were afraid of getting punched. Should've sent the janitor up there to judge it instead since hes mopping up the blood

The ken Norton one is heartbreaking to see if Ali didn’t exist he would’ve been so much more famous if not the best of his era although personally I’d say foreman was

What a voice we have here..

Benn vs McLellan is without a doubt the worst late stoppage in all boxing history.

I wish I had never seen this😮

Yes sir

You have to blame the corner half the time especially in the Jones Hall fight. There's such a thing As throwing in the towel

That last one with Griffith was sad

Do a video on Alexander Karelin.👍

This video is scary.

Let's just say that in the Tua fight the ref was a lot wealthier at the end of it

3:49 I agree with the spectator .....

Ótimo video mano, algum BR?

Emile Griffith trained my dad and they fought on the same card once

so sad to see gods creation being treated like that

Who is the guy @42 that throwing that right spinning punch

In that Garcia-Benton fight, why didn't Benton's corner throw in the towel?

Fort fight was horrific, was the ref daydreaming ?

Please Make Vedio Aboute Sugar Ray Robinson vs Jimmy Doyle Storyof Death

Shocking....potentially fatal incompetence,especially in the Ingemar bout...ref should be ashamed.

i hope those refs never got back to their jobs after those fights

Sometimes this comes from referees not being in position to see the punches coming on the opponent. They need to teach that to referees

What about tommy Morrison vs ray mercer

Some of these refs should be charged criminally.

Roberto Duran V Davey Moore. (Referee Ernesto Magana )

it is renown, not reknowed.

You wanna see a late stoppage look watch UFC 251 Petr Yan Vs Jose Aldo

just knock the referee out why would you carry on. have some dignity.

Nice vids, observing pro bouts for 58 years, in my opinion these referees should have been fined if not fired for allowing beat up fighters more punishment and trauma to their brains. Then, on the other side of the spectrum you have a corrupted referee like Richard Steel stopping fights when they are just getting interesting, glad he finally retired. Mills Lane, Arthur Mercante Sr and Joe Cortez are my personal favorites.

this is a compilation of stupid referees and stupid commissions that didnt do anything about it

Why would you try and piss off david tua?

If the hands are still up and u r standing on ur feet, u deserve the punishment 🫡

02:49 is really bad... But worst of all is 09:00... Boxing was too brutal at the time.

This is hard to watch

I did enjoy the video, but it was a awful thing to see. I guess I'm too soft in my old age.

3:50 thank me later

Joe Cortez was a bad referee

Where do you get your music from?

Do video on how shit joe cortiez was

No Ray Mercer knocking Tommy Gun the F out???? This list is trash

Ike Williams was built like a bull all muscles..yikes

Great list but where's Ray Mercer vs Tommy Morrison?

First 😊

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Muhammad Ali VS Henry Cooper is a good one. In 1963 (I think?) Muhammad Ali went up against Henry Cooper, who was the first man to knock down Muhammad. Muhammad obviously didn't like that, so he got up and beat the crap out of Cooper. His eye was bleeding like hell, and it even got on his chest and the referees clothing. Ali won at around the fifth round. Not really a late stoppage, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

So the video is about savage beatings because of negligent refereeing, and at the end it says - “If you enjoyed this video...”

Most of them didn't stop the fights cause they where racist

Omfg this video is disgusting all around