1.   The referee stopped the fight when one of the boxers was badly injured.

2.   The referee stopped the fight.

3.   Ayala Jr. kept beating another opponent, Robbie Epps, even after the referee had stopped the fight because he believed Epps had insulted his father.

4.   A fighter also can win by knocking his opponent out or by having the referee stop the bout when one boxer is clearly winning.

5.   A referee can stop a bout if a fighter is defenseless.

6.   After the fight, which the referee stopped in the eighth round, five rounds later than Hamed predicted, Hamed tried to make amends.

7.   De La Hoya knocked out Darryl Tyson with a hook to the gut while Chavez pummeled an overwhelmed Scott Walker until the referee stopped his fight.

8.   He was in such pitiful shape that any responsible referee would have stopped the bout.

9.   I went to cover up and then the referee stopped it.

10.   I threw punches back at him, but the referee stopped it too quickly.