Referee Ron Kearney, from Sunderland, England, has been called before the British\u00a0Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) to explain his actions while stopping the vacant British heavyweight title fight between David Adeleye and Jeamie \u201cTKV\u201d Tshikeva on April 25.<\/p>\n
The hearing will take place in June \u2013 though communication with all referees is underway to prevent a similar scenario unfolding again.<\/p>\n
Adeleye won the bout with TKV, previously in control of the contest, ruled in no state to continue in the sixth round yet the point of contention occurred directly before.<\/p>\n
With the fighters in a clinch, and TKV holding the body of Adeleye with his left hand, Kearney twice ordered the boxers to \u201cbreak\u201d. On the second occasion, the official slapped the offending glove of TKV, pushing it down in the process. Immediately, Adeleye launched a left hook to the unguarded chin of TKV who then crumpled to the canvas. The referee began the count, thus ruling it a legitimate knockdown, and though TKV would beat it he was visibly woozy and on unsteady legs. Adeleye\u2019s follow-up barrage dropped his opponent again and Kearney stepped in to call a halt.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have seen the written report from the referee, but we need more,\u201d Robert Smith, the General Secretary of the BBBoC, told BoxingScene. \u201cWe have questions that he will need to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether action is likely be taken against Kearney, who was overseeing his first major bout as an A star grade referee, Smith declined to comment without first hearing the referee\u2019s side of the story. He did add that officials being called to explain themselves was commonplace, however.<\/p>\n
According to British boxing rules, there is a difference between the instructions of \u2018break\u2019 and \u2018stop boxing\u2019. On this occasion, only the former \u2013 in essence an order to stop holding as opposed to fighting \u2013 was used.<\/p>\n
Yet the act of pushing down TKV\u2019s glove seconds before he was caught cold is something that Smith doesn\u2019t want to see occur in a British ring again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have sent memos out to all referees to make it clear that it shouldn\u2019t be done,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe are dealing with that. The referee shouldn\u2019t touch the boxer unless they\u2019re in a situation where they have to physically break them up or they\u2019re stepping in to stop the contest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referee Ron Kearney, from Sunderland, England, has been called before the British\u00a0Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) to explain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,4779,4492,14458,79,4493,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-22803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxing-scene","11":"tag-david-adeleye","12":"tag-referee","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tkv","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114343658461403957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}