Here at Craziest Sports Fights, our major focuses are around sports fights in Europe, America and Asia.
But that’s not to say that other regions of the world don’t produce some wacky stuff once in a while.
Bolivia isn’t exactly known as one of the world’s great sporting countries, but it produced an absolute barnstormer of a spectacle yesterday during a boxing match between a veteran and his opponent.
Check it out below.
MAYHEM IN BOLIVIA! Saul Farah (73-26-3) likely behind on the cards is dropped by debutant Pedro Tabares in the 6th. Tabres then stomps on Farah with both hands & feet while the champion is on the canvas. Farah defends his bridgerweight title with a DQ victory in Pando, Bolivia pic.twitter.com/KPFFn2Etmq
— Tim Boxeo (@TimBoxeo) June 20, 2021
The fight started in typical fashion, and was running smoothly until the 6th round. 38-year-old Saul Farah, who’s had over 100 fights and is well accustomed to the boxing game, was on the back foot against Pedro Tabares, who, incredibly, was making his pro debut.
The youngster was dominating the fight and was close to having it wrapped up in the 6th.
The footage shows him catching Farah with a hard straight right, which sends the older man to the deck.
But almost immediately, Tavares then jumps on him, landing some ground and pound while his opponent is stricken on the floor.
The referee steps in, but Tavares is obviously hungry for more, and manages to land a kick and two stomps before someone rightly intervenes.
Amidst the melee, the prone Farah manages to regain his footing in an attempt to escape any more damage. Surprisingly, there wasn’t that much of a brawl in the ring in the aftermath – if we’d seen that on terrestrial television in the U.K. or in America, coaches of both sides would’ve probably got in on the action.
— Tim Boxeo (@TimBoxeo) June 20, 2021
Luckily, this one ended quite tamely – and Farah, incredibly, resisted reacting to the abhorrent attack.
The fight was called off and Tavares was rightly disqualified, giving Farah another W for his record. But it certainly didn’t come in the way he would’ve expected it to.
He’s been quoted by Redino as having asked for a rematch – after Tabares claimed his actions were in support of his people, whom Farah had been ‘insulting for a long time.’
What a way to tarnish your record, eh?