@ElliotWorsell
Online Editor
CORNER stoppages are unique and fascinating because they represent the one time a prolonged period of contemplation – by boxing’s standards anyway – has led to a crucial and final decision. The decision, of course, is to end a fight, which, in a boxing ring, is a decision at any other stage normally associated with a sudden moment of drama or a sudden call on the part of either the referee or corner man. It is, whether decided by a referee’s intervention or a corner man’s white towel, something that ordinarily happens in an instant; something often fuelled by emotion and intuition
