Welterweight Abel “Abelito” Ramos (26-3-2, 20 KOs) scored a Rocky-like come-from-behind knockout win with one second remaining in the last round against Bryant “Goodfella” Perrella (17-3, 14 KOs) on Saturday night at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.
Perrella appeared to be headed to a ten round decision win, but a desperate Ramos dropped him twice in the last round. Perrella beat the count, but referee Jack Reiss waved it off at 2:59!!!
Perrella was up on all three cards at the time of the stoppage; 87-84 and two scores of 88-83.
Two-time world title challenger Diego Magdaleno (32-3, 13 KOs) scored a ten round unanimous decision over local hero Austin Dulay (13-2, 10 KOs) in a lightweight clash. After two slow rounds, Magdaleno pressed the action and dropped Dulay with a body shot in round seven, but was deducted a point for a low blow in the same round. Scores were 97-91, 96-92, 96-92.
Former WBA bantamweight champion Rau’shee Warren (17-3, 4 KOs) outpointed Gilberto Mendoza (15-8-3, 7 KOs) over ten rounds. Scores were 100-90, 99-91, 99-91.
Heavyweight Roney Hines (8-0, 5 KOs) topped Johnnie Langston (8-2, 3 KOs) over four. 40-36x across the board.
Unbeaten middleweight Leon Lawson III (13-0, 6 KOs) knocked out Francisco Javier Castro (28-13, 23 KOs) in the first round.
Welterweight Jose Borrego (16-2, 14 KOs) scored a third round TKO over Joaquim Carneiro (26-13, 23 KOs).
“Perrella beat the count, but referee Jack Reiss waved it off at 2:59!!!”
Well that sounds legit doesn’t it!?
With one single second left in the fight are you telling me the ref couldn’t have killed that one second by asking the guy if he wants to continue, hold up his hands, let me see you walk, etc.? Refs often kill a lot more time than that when they’re dealing with the house fighter. BS. The usual boxing corruption.
Jack Reiss should be given the Richard Steele Lifetime Achievement Award for that stoppage.
You sound like a Democrat.
We don’t need another ring tragedy.
Man you are REALLY stupid. I hate Democrat’s as much as the next rational human being but every time you make a post you make conservatives look like morons. Go bitch about politics on a political forum, this is a boxing site.
Nowhere near it!! While BP was clearly stunned, he was not falling, and ref should’ve known fight was in last seconds!! He must’ve heard the last 10 second warning, with his count, and further instructions, he should’ve been aware.
Perrella isn’t going anywhere, best he learn now before he gets really hurt
Call it Mexican power!!!!
That’s too bad but when he got knocked down you have to wait until your head clears to get up he got up way too early on a count of two so in reality it really was his fault the way he went about it I feel bad for him but these things happen he will have to learn from his mistakes
Everyone needs to fucking relax.
Jack Reiss made the right call. What was he supposed to do, let Bryant die in the ring like Patrick Day and others?
I wanted Bryant to win as much as everyone else, but come on. Boxers can rebound from a loss. It is not as easy to recover from permanent injuries or death.
Good call, Jack.
It was unfortunate that Parrella got caught so late in the fight. However, he was seriously hurt and looked like he didn’t know where he was. I was hoping the ref would give him the benefit of the doubt after the second knockdown, but he didn’t.
Many would say the ref is not the timekeeper. However, a good ref should be aware of time and circumstances and act accordingly. He could have easily let the fight go on and the round would have been over. Parrella was staggering but he did follow the ref’s instructions, just a bit slower than he should have.
Because of the recent deaths in the ring, I believe refs are a lot quicker to stop fights nowadays. However, I would have liked the fight to go to a decision. I don’t think the two knockdowns in the last round were enough to overcome the big lead amassed by Parrella. An unfortunate ending for Parrella but a great win for Ramos.
Also there is a ten second warning before the round is over-poor officiating.
Harsh call, but it was the correct one. How much time is left in the round is supposed to be irrelelvant. Does the ref even know how much time is left? Some fights it’s shown, others it isn’t. I thought it was kinda funny that Parrella referenced Taylor-Chavez when he wasn’t even born yet! He knows his boxing history!
I would like to interject a fact into this discussion. Anyone who recorded the Perrella-Ramos bout can verify this. Using a stopwatch from the bell starting the 10th round until Jack Reiss waves off the bout, you can verify that the bout was stopped at 3.0613 minutes of the final round. The TN Commission can easily verify this. Thus, going to the scorecards and scoring the 10th round 10-7 for Ramos, the final tally should be 95-95, and 95-93 twice for Perrella. It is not Perrella’s (or Jack Reiss’) fault that the timekeeper blew it. The correction should be a majority decision win for Perrella. A rematch would be welcomed by most fans.
I would like to make an addendum to my earlier comment, based on information that a friend of mine suggested. Depending on the rules in effect in TN, if they recognize that a boxer cannot be saved by the bell, then the stoppage may have been entirely legit. The timekeeper would not be obligated to ring the bell until Reiss indicated that Perrella was fit to continue, which he (Reiss) didn’t.
I saw this, and the ref screwed up big time. Here is a ref with more than 30 years, and hundreds of title fights, who missed the boat. Ref know when they hear that banging on the canvas, it’s to let them know there are only 10 seconds left to end of round. Now Perrella is knocked down, ref gives an 8 count, tells him to walk over here, and come back, and as BP does it, he stumbles, doesn’t fall, or even seem like he is about to fall, ref stops it!! Unfair!! I’ve seen fighters, barely able to stand up straight, stumbling all over the ring, but as long as they didn’t fall, they were allowed to finish the fight!! His management should protest ref’s decision!!