{"id":92525,"date":"2025-08-24T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92525\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:47:07","slug":"video-amateur-reffing-skills-on-display-in-montana-amateur-tko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92525\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Amateur reffing skills on display in Montana amateur TKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Trent Edwards goes pro some day, the odds he&#8217;ll be in the same situation he was in Saturday are slim to none.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards brought his 1-4 amateur record to a middleweight fight with Louis Delgado, who was 0-2, in Havre, Mont., for Fusion Fight League. Edwards finished Delgado with a TKO in the third round after dropping him with leg kicks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But the oddity came when the referee wasn&#8217;t satisfied with Delgado falling to the canvas after another successive leg kick and immediately covering up \u2013 including his head. Edwards walked off with what he presumed was a TKO, given Delgado exhibited every sign of being done.<\/p>\n<p>But while Delgado was covering up on the mat, and Edwards was walking away, he turned to see why the fight wasn&#8217;t stopped. Edwards even paused to put his hands on his hips to look at the ref, as if to say, &#8220;What do you want from me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The referee told him to keep fighting. Edwards landed a few inconsequential punches to Delgado on the canvas before the ref stepped in to stop things.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the absurd finish below (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpectationNet\/status\/1959453172071846344\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spectation Sports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Spectation Sports<\/a>). Then weigh in on the finish in our poll.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/2025\/08\/24\/video-amateur-reffing-skills-on-display-montana-tko-mma-knockout-bad-referee\/85806864007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Video: Amateur reffing skills on display in Montana amateur TKO;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Video: Amateur reffing skills on display in Montana amateur TKO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Trent Edwards goes pro some day, the odds he&#8217;ll be in the same situation he was in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,68625,68623,785,85,68624],"class_list":["post-92525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-fusion-fight-league","tag-louis-delgado","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-trent-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}