How often does a referee actually count to ten?

[bojangles1987]

I was thinking about this after the Haye thread saying he only needs a ref who can count to ten. Usually if a fighter is going to stay down for the ten count the ref just stops the fight beforehand. I honestly can't think of a fight where the ref actually counted all the way to ten off the top of my head, especially not in a big fight like Wlad-Haye will be.

[Bushbaby]

If ur not up by 7 or 8,they usually dont bother.It all depends on where the dropped feller is 2/3rd's during the count.

[TintaBoricua]

Not very often.

Trevor Berbick vs. Mike Tyson...Berbick got up, went down, got up, went down, got up, went down...Mills Lane actually got to ten. He actually gave Berbick a chance to compose himself but he couldn't.

[any craic lad?]

Ya dont especially nowadays if a guy actually knocked out unconcious the ref is obviously gunna wave the count and get a doctor in as fast as he can (Williams Martinez is an exception) and if a guy was knocked down hard and gets up before the mandatory 8 and falls down again the ref usually calls it there.

[FeFist]

[Ray*]

Wasnt the Ref in the Pac-Hatton fight still trying to count to ten? I swear he was counting 6..7

[!! AI-Holmes!!]

When the down fighter is making an effort to get up and comes a second short from being in the standing position..



Here Lewis is counted out..

[edgarg]

I was thinking about this after the Haye thread saying he only needs a ref who can count to ten. Usually if a fighter is going to stay down for the ten count the ref just stops the fight beforehand. I honestly can't think of a fight where the ref actually counted all the way to ten off the top of my head, especially not in a big fight like Wlad-Haye will be.

When the fighter is down the ref begins his count, taking it up from the timer. If the fighter gets up and is in no condition the ref stops at 8 and waves the fight off.

If the fighter is flat and OBVIOUSLY is OUT, the ref stops the count and takes out his mouthpiece to help him breathe. If the fighter is trying to get up the ref continues to count until 10. What happens sometimes is that the very instant the ref reaches 10 he waves the fight off, which really means that the fighter lost a whole second, since between the beginning of the 10th second and the end of the 10th second, is a WHOLE second.

So he gets a 9 second count. In acrtual fact, as soon as the ref takes up the count, very few refs can keep EXACT time and the fighter nearly always gets a count which is longer than the legal 10, or in the case of a fighter beating the count, the legal 8.

When Tyson KD'd Buster Douglas in the 8th rd of their fight, the ref's count lasted about 15 seconds, giving Buster time to collect himself and get up. The argument there was that although it was definitely well over the legal 10 seconds, they really go by the referee's count, not the clock's.

[ATG Fighter]

Look at this dumb **** giving a dead man the count

[BOLLOCKS]

Look at this dumb **** giving a dead man the count

Lulz, I'm glad he did, that made it KO instead of a TKO on teh record books as it should be..