I was just skimming random vids and was reminded of this from Jorge Paez vs Silverio Ortiz in 2003 where referee Marty Salmon found himself in one of those ringside huddles with commission officials trying to clean this up. He verbally calls for break and goes hands on only to have one let loose while the other fails the truest rule..protect yourself at all times! Just a few thoughts...

Should there ever be a scenario when a fighter can 'win' on a foul? Or were they just trying to get out of the ring and look to clear it up off air. Was it a hard foul, just a fighters instinct on opening or just a lackadaisical ref..bit of all 3?

Was heavy favorite just given privilege after his own dumb mistake and initial ref call should have been supported..a KO? Or should the ref penalize the foul immediately, deduct a point, withhold a count and give downed fighter 5 minutes to recoup

The announced result was later reversed and they went to the score cards..off air and well after those in charge already knew who was ahead. That alone is just shady as all helz. I always get a kick out of watching officials and commission reps, ref try to block cameras and muffle microphones so public and crowds cannot see or hear . Marty Salmon heard in the background "I'm going to need security to get out of here" and "I guess that does it for my career".

Go to 31:50 to get gist of fight and lead to incident.