Video: Boxing referee inexplicably blows call on what was an obvious knockout

DAZN screenshot You probably will not see a more egregious officiating error by a combat sports referee this year.

In Saturday’s Matchroom Boxing on DAZN card in Tulsa, Oklahoma, junior middleweight prospect Israil Madrimov (6-0, 5 KOs) had a tougher time than expected against Eric Walker (20-3, 9 KOs), but then the Uzbek power-puncher leaped into action in round nine and detonated a bomb of a left hook on Walker for the KO.

Or so we thought.

Somehow referee Gary Ritter did not rule this a knockdown, and Walker didn’t come remotely close to beating a hypothetical ten-count. Ritter immediately ruled no knockdown and claimed that Madrimov’s shoulder is what caused Walker’s fall, not the fact…