{"id":689692,"date":"2026-01-11T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:26:09","slug":"circus-boxing-referee-sent-tumbling-to-the-canvas-before-stopping-fight-as-fans-left-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689692\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Circus’ – Boxing referee sent tumbling to the canvas before stopping fight as fans left stunned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Referee Daniel Van de Wiele suffered an embarrassing moment as he touched the canvas himself during Jadier Herrera vs Ricardo Nunez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Herrera and Nunez were duelling for the WBC interim lightweight title on the undercard of Agit Kabayel’s heavyweight showdown with Damian Knyba<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The referee took a tumble during Herrera and Nunez’s clash in an embarrassing mid-fight moment<\/p>\n

The raucous night in Germany produced a bucket of exciting and bizarre action including brutal KOs and controversial stoppages.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the night, Tyson Fury’s brother Roman had won by stoppage<\/a>, which in the eyes of the watching public was premature and was met with boos from the crowd.<\/p>\n

But in theclash between the two talented 135lbs operators, it was the referee whose stoppage stole the show.<\/p>\n

Referee’s slip before fight stoppage<\/p>\n

Van de Wiele was in charge for an epic battle, which saw Nunez surprisingly on top in the early rounds, even dropping Herrera in the opening period in a moment of real adversity.<\/p>\n

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Herrera eventually started to take control of the contest and work his way into his rival, who was still trying to match him punch for punch.<\/p>\n

But the eighth round brought total chaos as the former started to really push on and try to secure himself an early night.<\/p>\n

Some big hooks from Herrera hit their mark as he marched his rival down and looked to get Nunez out of there.<\/p>\n

As the referee attempted to try and step in and break the action, he was sent flying backwards and flat on to the canvas.<\/p>\n

He bounced off the dominant fighter, and was desperately trying to climb back to his feet.<\/p>\n

Eventually he clambered to his feet and didn’t take any more time to reassess proceedings.<\/p>\n

He immediately waved off the contest to the amazement of Nunez, who felt he had recovered from the blows.<\/p>\n

Herrera had already been celebrating, but the delay in the referee getting back to his feet had seen Nunez think he had regained his composure.<\/p>\n

Ultimately it is now Herrera who moves on to bigger things, as he is now mandated for a shot at WBC champion Shakur Stevenson.<\/p>\n

But he is unlikely to get it imminently, with Stevenson set to take on Teofimo Lopez when moving up in weight to 140lbs on January 31.<\/p>\n

Fans’ reaction to the stoppage<\/p>\n

Fans who watched on as the action happened, couldn’t believe their eyes.<\/p>\n

One wrote: “I don’t know what was weirder, the fall or the stoppage.”<\/p>\n

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Another said: “What? What on earth is that?”<\/p>\n

A fan added: “That needs circus music hahaha, hilarious.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referee Daniel Van de Wiele suffered an embarrassing moment as he touched the canvas himself during Jadier Herrera…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[162312,1935,4496,208299,56854,208300,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-689692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-agit-kabayel","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-jadier-herrera","12":"tag-ko","13":"tag-ricardo-nunez","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115878584903815785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689692","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=689692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}