British referee Ian John-Lewis deserves a great amount of respect for taking this one on the chin, because many men would have gone down in a heap.
He was on the receiving end of a huge left hook to the face from Badou Jack on Saturday, during his WBC light-heavyweight title battle with Adonis Stevenson.
The latter retained his title after judges scored the fight a draw, but the main talking about was that errant punch.
Swing:
Ref got popped in the face by Badou Jack pic.twitter.com/SYhEfLUCUW
— Fanatics View (@fanaticsview) May 21, 2018
Right in the kisser.
For a 55-year-old to stay up, and have a chuckle about it afterwards, we say well played.
Imagine the mess if it had been Zlatan who was punched in the bek?
[source:nypost]
