Am i dreaming or did aj call his own timeout?

[Motorcity Cobra]

Also it seemed the final bell was ringing 8 seconds before the rounds were actually over with.......

Because the ref never stopped the clock. That ref was way out of his league. Not only the timeout but he'd stop the fight whenever the action would get started.

[mlac]

The ref was complete dog ****. Also aj started using the bad reffing to his advantage......when the ref would come in to calm parker down aj would immediately shoot off a uppercut......the crowd loved it and danced. It's like babying is ruining the sport of boxing. It's beyond disgraceful at this point.....

yep, you see that elbow that cut open parkers face too?
This referee has never reff'd a heavyweight title fight, and was brought in to do exactly what he did.
The Reff was clearly corrupt...or are just going to pretend he was just inept?

[Motorcity Cobra]

Yep. There's timeouts in boxing now. That ref was on the take or should never be allowed to ref a big fight again.

Where the eff did that guy even come from? Don't think I've seen that guy before.

I can see why Joshua said he don't wanna come to the US, less ability for Hearn to control the ref. In the US we only buy the judges usually.

Italian ref only his 4th world title fight.

[Superbee]

Maybe if the ref did his job and not let the tape hang in there for tremendous number of seconds the first time Joshua wouldn't have to take it on him... He even looked at him fixing the tape himself in disbelief once... ... That Macaroni ref was a disgrace...

[Sparked_26]

That was odd.

Although to be fair, that ref allowed Joshua to fight for about 2 minutes with the tape flapping about previous to that.

Ref was hopeless. Was he Italian? I don't want to criticise him to much as with millions of pounds used to make the fight - he was given relative peanuts to officiate so he doesn't deserve to much flack. But Italian's don't have much of a heritage in the sport these days.

It should have been a yank ref in there.

[Eff Pandas]

Italian ref only his 4th world title fight.

Yea thats even more sketchy now.

A guy in his 4th world title fight shouldn't be reffing a unification fight wtf.

And this cat is probably on that mafia sh^t & there was a ton of money on the over or something lol.

Getting conspiracy theory-ish/crazytown sh^t here, but that was a sketchy ass performance by this ref that makes you think what f#cked up sh^t one could take advantage of if you got the ref in on it.

[Godsfly]

yep, you see that elbow that cut open parkers face too?
This referee has never reff'd a heavyweight title fight, and was brought in to do exactly what he did.
The Reff was clearly corrupt...or are just going to pretend he was just inept?

well. Its obviously a work of hearn to have that ref in the ring. Honestly i was rooting for joshua. But alot of the tactics from The Ref spoiled Parkers chances. And that's absolutely shameful and ridiculous that's not right and I can't act like it's right. Not saying parker would have won but let the man do his gameplan....ref had no business being in this type of fight. In any other world he wouldn't even exist. So obviously someone with huge amount of power set him to be there and made it a strict point for him to be there.

[Eff Pandas]

he was given relative peanuts to officiate so he doesn't deserve to much flack.

If he wasn't just a bad ref he likely got a lot more money for that fight.

[keepemup]

It was a little strange but the ref could have called him back, he permitted it.

It's not a big deal at all.

[Illmatic94]

That crooked ref is enjoying the fruits of his labor right now. probably making it rain on some hoes in a strip club. the commentary mentioned how this was his fourth fight reffing on a championship level. a green ref is more easier to grease. the fix was in. disgusting corruption on full display.