A boxing match on New Year's Eve turned chaotic when two fighters repeatedly threw illegal spinning backfists, resulting in the referee taking multiple punches.
Fists were flying in all directions that they shouldn’t have been during a boxing match on New Year’s Eve, with one referee taking multiple blows to the face. Sina Karimian boxed Rukiya Anpo in the kickoff to the main card Tuesday for combat sports promotion Rizin as part of their “Rizin 49 Decade” card that featured 22 MMA, kickboxing and boxing fights and took place in Saitama, Japan.
The bout was the first boxing match of both fighters’ careers, though they have both competed in kickboxing for many years, and they threw traditional boxing rules to the wind during round six.Karimian threw a spinning backfist during the boxing match before the referee immediately stepped in and separated the fighters, while Karimian began celebrating and taunting the crowd after breaking the ruleset. 'Sina, not permitted under these rules, he has broken the ruleset,' a Rizin commentator said after the spinning backfist. 'He knows it as well. It was only a matter of time. You know what, I think we can almost take a break here and let Sina be the commentator, he’s talking that much.' X, @SpinninBackfist After watching Karimian taunt him, Anpo put together his own combination of strikes, which he completed with a spinning backfist of his own. Three spinning backfists were thrown in the span of just a few minutes as the referee attempted to regain control of the bout, but to no avail.The mistake that the referee made was when Anpo threw a spinning backfist of his own, he was unable or was perhaps too slow to separate the two combatants. After letting them continue, all hell broke loose as Karimian jumped in and began throwing combinations and a second spinning backfist. The referee jumped in as the two got pushed into the corner and he took a hard left hand across the chin, which snapped his head back and made the intervention even more challengin
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