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Re:U.F.C. Sells Itself for $4B by balls187 on Monday July 11, 2016 @04:53PM (#12074501)
> Don't boxing refs stop the fight when they think the fighter can't continue (e.g. can't answer/focus)? I'm pretty sure I've seen that.

No. In Boxing, the ref has a mandatory 8 count.

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Re:U.F.C. Sells Itself for $4B by kbenson on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:17PM (#12074732)
I'm pretty sure that depends on what organization they are fighting with and the specific rules. It's not hard to find articles about controversy when a referee stops a fight[1]. In the linked case, there was no count, nor even a knockdown. Obviously there are cases, at least in some boxing organizations, in which a ref can stop a fight without a full count.

1: http://www.badlefthook.com/2014/3/9/5486930/canelo-vs-angulo...

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