You Know A Boxer Just Got His Face Crushed In When The Ref Reacts Like This
I’m sure Large will break down the particulars of this fight in much more detail than my peabrain possibly could. However I just wanted to shout out Keith Thurman for not only eating a punch so fierce that it turned the ref into one of the best reaction gifs to ever grace the World Wide Web
but for also winning the goddamn fight.
Bouncing back from a shot to the face like must be tough, but getting a reaction like that from a boxing ref has to be even tougher. I don’t know what Boxing Ref School is like, but I imagine it’s not nearly as fun as listening to Portnoy roast people at Blogger School. There’s probably some physical fitness tests to make sure you can separate two prize fighters trying to knock each other the fuck out, a 12-hour long video of the most vicious hits in mankind to numb your senses to violence, and someone pouring blood on you the entire time so you don’t get grossed out when your clothes look like you just delivered a baby elephant after a particularly gruesome fight.
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be boxers or boxing refs. Let them be Knight Fighters, the combat sport of the future and I call dibs on being its Joe Rogan.
Side note: Pres, if you are reading this, please get this ref at Rough N Rowdy next week. This is the face people Stoolies deserve to see as you and Big Cat are announcing hillbillies beating the living shit out of each other. I just want to see his reaction to creatures like Raccoon Boy and the always exciting ring girl sideshow since he is apparently a legend that is the Gus Johnson of awesome facial expressions.