Hay-Suze Crispies... how did he get his license to be a ref?!?! Does he want to be involved in a fatal fight??
I know a lot of you may not have seen THIS Arthur Mercante Jr. blunder and near fatal "accident" as a result of his CRIMINAL refereeing, but you may know about his other, more notorious, legalized, near-fatal beatings he allowed to continue in the ring under his refereeing: Khalid Jones vs. Beetthaven Scotland, Pernell Whitiker vs. Diobelys Hurtado and Razor Ruddock vs Michael Dokes.
You have to see this one!!
(A little backdrop into how I got to this...)
I was reading the thread on Sugar Ray Leonard's sexual abuse, and then decided to do some Googling to find out former Olympic Coaches of the era. I then came across the Wikipedia entry for the USA Boxing Team's wiki-entry.
I then, as per the norm with random Google searches (and YouTube searches, for that matter), got side-tracked and decided to peruse the content and then saw the list of US Amateur Boxing Champions.
I read up on the past heavyweight amateur champions, and I looked into Michael Bennett- US Olympian at the, 2000 Olympic Games at Heavyweight. Read up on his less than stellar record, saw he had a history of getting KTFO'd- weak chinned- and then went to search some of his fights on YouTube, particularly the ones of him getting KTFO'd. (Yea, so what!?!? I went looking for guts and gore, primarily... but it does NOT excuse Mercante and his criminal acts!)
Alas, I came across the first video, of his first fight against Andrew Hutchinson, one which Bennett won by first round TKO.
MY-EFFING-GAWD!!! Why have people allowed Mercante Jr. to referee their matches at any time is BEYOND me?!?!
Take a look at this very, short video of this near-fatal boxing TKO of Bennett on Hutchinson, circa 2001.
It ain't right man, it ain't right...
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