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Boxing ref cops full-blooded left on the chin

Boxing ref cops full-blooded left on the chin

This boxing referee has quite the chin.

As Badou Jack and James DeGale slugged it out in New York in a bid to unify the super-middleweight bout the unexpected happened.

At the end of the fifth round US ref Arthur Merchant Jar stepped in to stop the fighters. It was poor timing.

Jack unleashed a fierce left, which DeGale managed to evade.

Merchant was not so lucky. He wore it on the chin and would have collapsed to the canvas if not for Jack catching him.

He brushed himself off fairly quickly though.

Th fight went the distance in the end, DeGale winning the judges’ decision.