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referee

The official who is in the ring with the boxers and the person who enforces the rules of boxing and makes sure that the fight is clean and fair. He is the one to decide that a boxer is physically able to continue boxing after being knocked down or having taken a count. If the referee feels this is not true he can stop the fight.

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