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The following is not necessarily unpublicized, but widely unknown and underrated.During 1942, in German-occupied Kiev, there were several football matches between Soviet POW’s and Luftwaffe personnel, refereed by a Waffen-SS soldier(not a picture from the match, but it’s highly representative)The first happened on the 6th of August, the teams were Flakelf (german players) and the Kiev city team Start (soviet pow’s). It was watched live by almost 2000 spectators, each had to pay 5 rubles for the ticket.(the official re-match poster)Soviets had the upper hand, because their team was composed mostly of former professional football players who ended up as workforce for German factories in Kiev. The Germans meanwhile had only regular soldiers.The referee was very biased, closing his eyes whenever Flakelf players fouled. The Germans should have won easily with the referee on their sideBut they did not.It ended 5–1 for the Soviets.This was a terrible loss for the Germans, they could not accept it so they asked for a rematch 3 days later, on the 9th of August.This time Flakelf came back with a new, even more aggresive team. During the match the Soviet GK was hit several times by Germans players, fouls were often, but the referee did not care at all. This match was meant to be won by FLakelf.But they lost 5–3.With players injured, biased referee, and 2000 German spectators taunting at them, they pulled off 2 consecutive winsThis had terrible consequences for the team.In the following days, 8 Soviet players were arrested by the Gestapo. They were tortured so badly that one of them died. The rest were sent to concentration camps where 3 more died of starvation and beatings.The German superior army simply could not beat a team of hungry factory workers, even when the referee was on their side!So the Gestapo decided to do what they know best, arrest them and send them to concentration camps, Germany could not accept this type of humiliation!Andrei Ţaga

Mike Tyson landed a powerful left hook on British referee John Coyle, way back in 2000.It was entirely accidental and Tyson’s intended target was his opponent Lou Savarese. The referee was trying to stop the fight but Tyson was so pumped-up and hyper that he didn’t realize and continued to pound on Savarese— the ref simply got in the way…He wasn’t punished for knocking the ref down because it was an accident.Tyson was awarded a TKO victory and straight after the fight went on to give his now infamous rant, “I’m Sonny Liston, I’m Jack Dempsey — I’m from their cloth. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable!”In terms of a deliberate attempt to KO the referee- Zab Judah went ballistic in 2001, after his stoppage loss to Kostya Tszyu . He cornered referee, Jay Nady on the ropes and could be seen loading up with a fierce right hand punch…

Zab Judah over-stepped the mark when he tried to KO referee, Jay Nady back in 2001.Judah felt aggrieved that the referee had stopped his fight against Kostya Tszyu prematurely. Whilst many could sympathize with Judah’s frustration at having just lost his world title, going ballistic in a crowded ring on a worldwide feed was not the ideal response.After suffering a heavy knockdown to the big-punching Tszyu, he temporarily re-gained his feet before doing a discombobulated & drunken dance…The referee had to make a tough call & most on-lookers felt that Nady was justified in calling a halt to the action. Clearly Judah disagreed.