Sometimes it just seems a more cheap n easy ring existence compared to the days of loin cloths and beat a guy into eating canned soup Willard vs Dempsey kd rules. As much as you'd hope for a mutual 'respect' and tit for tat with bottom line being fighting and less looking to the ref....some boxers are just a snippet of the pussification of society as a whole. They know you can milk rules and gain advantages more so by working refs than by being Mr macho man and sucking it up and having to work through it. I mean people used to carry guns on there hips too but now just call the cops, unless your in Texas where all bets are off.