Octavio Meyran
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Octavio Meyran Sanchez is a former Mexican boxing referee.
During his career Meyran took charge of over twenty world title fights. Among the bouts he refereed were the infamous No Más fight between Roberto Durán and Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980, Wilfredo Gómez's WBC Featherweight title-winning effort against Juan Laporte, Gomez's loss in his first defense of that title to Azumah Nelson, and Buster Douglas' upset win over Mike Tyson in 1990. After the latter fight, in an unsuccessful attempt to have the result overturned, Meyran was accused by Tyson's manager Don King of giving Douglas a "slow count".[1]
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- ^ Anderson, Dave (1990-02-12). "Referee's Count Is What Counts". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFDB103DF931A25751C0A966958260. Retrieved 2007-11-21.
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