Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
One of the oddest things Ive seen is what happened at the end of the Carlos Navaroo/Bobby Pacquioa fight.The man...Navarro went down a couple of times & all but demanded to be counted out azz he sat on his backside staring at the ref.....yelling at him "count" !!He punched the canvas after the last KD and just stayed there.....counting with the ref
I remember that fight, Navarro vs Bobby Pacquiao. It was odd. It was as if Navaro did not approve of the referee's ability in calling the fight that he took control and showed the referee himself how it should be handled. LOL.

The McCall fight too was, an odd and had an abrupt end to a fight. It was just a routine round winding down when without reason nor provocation whatsoever, Oliver McCall, just started crying uncontrollably and soon after a stoppage. What other recourse could there have been but stop the fight? The guy was brought down not by blows, but by his own tears. Of course at the time, little did I know that he had two bouts going on in the ring, one boxing and another for drug withrawal, LOL. Bizarre.

Speaking of bizarre, sorry to digress a bit, the parachute incident in the Bowe/ Holyfield match was one incident to remember for an aberration like situation in a bout. You cannot simply believe what is happenning right before your very eyes. You have to blink and refocus without a doubt, but odd as the picture was, it is there, reality after all.

A parachute landed in an ongoing bout. Security for the protagonists was, in a split of a second, a prime concern as any. However... for a few seconds there, after the parachute landed... everyone was just awestruck, and frozen for a second or two.

In a flash the parachute guy was subdued, was struck numerous times, beaten down with flashlights and sticks by security, and I think, members of Holyfield's corner...as I remember.... Guns could have been unholstered, I am uncertain, but as anyone can just guess could have been a given reaction by security, under those circumstances.

The odd incident though, did not abbreviate the fight. After the guy was carted away, the fight resumed, picking it up were they left off as if... announced as, "the ongoing program is now resumed" back to your seats. Business as usual. Bizarre!