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Missed Knock Out Call in Madrimov-Walker Fight Shows Boxing's Dire Need for Reform

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In 2019, boxing was beset by tragedy. We mourned the loss of Maxim Dadashev, the junior welterweight prospect who succumbed from injuries suffered in a beating that went on too long. We cried over Patrick Day, the happy go lucky junior middleweight whose grueling fight with Charles Conwell ended with a combination he would never wake up from. We prayed when a continent away, Hugo Santillan suffered three heart attacks after his fight, dying in a hospital bed days later.

And we learned nothing.

On Saturday night, on a DAZN-streamed card in Tulsa, Oklahoma, boxing’s incompetence was on full display.