1.   Amateur boxing generally is considered safer because bouts are shorter than for pros, ring referees are quicker to stop fights after head blows and fighters wear headgear.

2.   He appeared to have pushed Bean into the ropes before the punch, but the ring referee ruled it a legal knockdown.

3.   Mills Lane was named the ring referee.

4.   The ring referee is BILL CONNORS of Hialeah, Fla.

5.   Controversial scoring and refereeing led to three ring referees being demoted to judges during the championships and seven others being warned.

6.   Filipino ring referee Alex Vido gave Garcia two standing eight-counts in the fourth and fifth rounds as the Mexican boxer was clearly outboxed.