Sentence examples for controversial stoppage from inspiring English sources

What they got was a controversial stoppage by the referee Dan Miragliotta in the main event, a decision that handed the wildly popular Kimbo Slice a victory in a fight he was losing.

Froch won their first encounter with a controversial stoppage in November.

Earlier, Gabriel Mercado scored a controversial stoppage-time winner as Sevilla produced a sensational late turnaround to come from two goals down to win 3-2 at Deportivo La Coruna and provisionally go third.

Manchester City left it late to reduce the gap at the top of the Premier League to three points, but Gareth Barry's controversial stoppage-time winner put the pressure back on Manchester United to pick up three points at Swansea on Sunday or have their advantage cut in the title race.

Jamie Hamill's controversial stoppage-time penalty had levelled the scores in normal time at McDiarmid Park.

Eden Hazard's controversial stoppage-time penalty salvaged a draw for Chelsea against West Brom and kept Jose Mourinho's unbeaten home record intact.

Jamie Hamill then converted a controversial stoppage-time penalty to force extra time.

In his latest fight Froch, 36, secured a controversial ninth-round stoppage of George Groves on Saturday.

Referee Rajindraparsad Seechurn gave Equatorial Guinea a controversial penalty in stoppage time as they beat Tunisia 2-1 in the quarter-finals.

Froch, 36, won in Manchester last November via a controversial ninth-round stoppage - but there was no room for debate this time.

Instead, Froch had to take a harder road to mainstream recognition, engaging in a succession of gruelling world title encounters - some of them far from home - culminating in his controversial ninth-round stoppage of Groves last November.