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It was a dazed and daffy week in boxing. Typical of the confusion to come was the fate of Canadian featherweight Jamie Pagendam. On Sunday he was declared a loser on a technical knockout. On Monday he won a reversal because the Ivory Coast referee had miscounted knockdowns that should...
Hembrick and U.S. coach Ken Adams tried to board a 10 a.m. shuttle bus from the Village to the gym. The bus was full, however, so they waited for the 10:30, thinking Hembrick's fight would not take place until after noon. But they had misread the schedule, and...
The woolliest confrontation of the week took place after the final bell sounded in a bantamweight fight. When South Korea's Byun Jong-Il lost a narrow decision, his coach and trainers, along with several Korean boxing officials, poured through the ropes and pummeled New Zealand referee Keith Walker. Byun...
Referee Joel Goldman took the other officials aside in the end zone after the play and talked it over with them, asking if anyone had blown a whistle or anything. After about three minutes, he let the touchdown stand.
Minutes later, when senior Ken Ruoff was given a red card in a frontfield scuffle, Gates raced up the field--baring his chest--to remind the referee that the other side is just as brutal.