Commentators rage at stoppage as boxing’s youngest champion Abdullah Mason earns controversial win

Abdullah Mason continues to be the WBO lightweight champion following a controversial stoppage.

In May, the ending of Oleksandr Usyk’s clash with Rico Verhoeven led to fans calling out the referee and the game of boxing as an entire.

The controversy wasn’t helped by the open scoring that had Usyk level on points for nearly all of the bout despite what was happening contained in the ring.

While many consider that the fitting man got his hand raised on July 4, that didn’t stop one other world title fight from ending in backlash.

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Commentators immediately call out referee’s stoppage in Abdullah Mason’s title defense

On July 4, two fighters representing Ohio met contained in the ring when Abdullah Mason put his WBO lightweight title on the road against Albert Bell.

Mason had a slow begin to the fight but was in a position to produce a remarkable turnaround within the second half of the bout to completely turn the tables.

On an evening that ought to be remembered for boxing’s current youngest world champion (22 years old) digging deep to rally, the stoppage in the ultimate round immediately caused controversy.

A left hand caught Bell contained in the first minute of the opening stanza, however the commentators clearly didn’t feel that was a sufficiently big shot for the referee to wave the bout off when the challenger went down.

“They’re stopping it! They’re stopping it?! Oh my word,” the commentators on TNT Sports said throughout the final round. “You can not stop it. But, guess what? It doesn’t matter. Mason was on his method to an enormous win in his hometown.”

The best way that Bell was holding onto his opponent as he slowly went to the bottom made it seem like he was more exhausted than hurt as a consequence of his body language.

Despite the controversial stoppage, the scorecards released after the fight showed that each one three judges had Mason in front by a transparent margin heading into the twelfth round.

That didn’t stop the likes of Devin Haney from calling it the worst stoppage he’s ever seen when reacting to the fight on X.