Boxing evening in
Cinco Saltos, Rio Negro
.
In one corner
Rocío Martí
, originally from Catriel, and in the other the Neuquén
Rocío Galindo
.
Initial bell, the voice of "seconds out" and the expectation in a fight that unexpectedly became another spectacle.
Without a blow flying, referee
Carlos Luengo
approached the Neuquén's corner and after a count declared a technical knockout.
What followed was Titans in the Ring
.
Because one of Galindo's promoters and also trainer,
Bruno Godoy
, went into the ring upset by the decision.
After a brief exchange of positions, he hit him with a right hand that left the referee on the boards.
“He asked me to bring a woman to the corner, but I trained the girl (Galindo), who has a national license.
There are no trainers in the area.
The bell rang and I was about to get out of the ring, but she came to the corner, started telling her and declared the knockout,” summarized Godoy, who expanded his version of the events.
In the images, it is observed that despite the request, Godoy never showed any signs of leaving the position in which he was located even after the bell rang.
“He told me: 'You didn't get out of the ring' but he didn't give me time!
Afterwards he told me a couple of things, I hit him with my open hand and he fell to the floor.
He was left lying on the floor,” he admitted, and apologized, to the promoter who claimed to have sent the same written version to the
Argentine Boxing Federation
.
Referee Luengo also offered his point of view in an interview with the cable channel
Todo Noticias
.
“The boxers were about to face each other and I told her that she cannot be inside the ring due to a gender issue, there has to be a woman.
If she slips her breast protector, she cannot touch her,” the referee indicated.
In the interview, Luengo specified that in response to Godoy's refusal, he told him that it was a purely regulatory issue and that “any woman could come up” to attend to it and that the promoter did not comply with the indication.
"I tell him to leave, he is heading in a bad way when I start the first round, he was still on top. The regulations say that when there is a person hanging on the outside of the ropes standing next to the ring, above or on the ladder, "You have to make a protection account and if you don't pay attention, you are disqualified for abandonment. I take those administrative steps, I tell the prosecutor and he comes in, I feel the blow and I lose consciousness," summarized the referee who entered the a local hospital at 2 in the morning and was discharged at 9.
The evening, which took place on Friday and was organized by the Río Negro Boxing Federation, was immediately suspended and the entity has already received the medical report along with the referee's police report and a sanction for Godoy is expected.
“All the technicians and judges are made, they give everyone a license.
At every event we organize they drive us crazy.
It is a festival where 200 people go, we lose money, but we have to pay them,” the aggressor continued his criticism.
“This man is a violent person, he has that history in other fights,” the attacked referee retorted on the TN screen.