Sentence examples for deduct a point from inspiring English sources

Ortiz deliberately butted Mayweather on the mouth, splitting his lip and forcing the veteran referee, Joe Cortez, to stop the action and deduct a point.

During a match, umpires give an official warning for the first violation, deduct a point for the second, and for a third infringement, dock a whole game.

"If my kid's playing in the gym room and he's hot and sweaty and he asks for a drink and he goes to get a drink, are they going to deduct a point from him?" asked another.

He remained there several minutes while Referee Joe Cortez deducted a point from Holyfield.

He wandered sleepily to his corner as Weeks rightly deducted a point for the mouthpiece shenanigans.

One minute, his overwhelmed opponent, Victor Ortiz, was being deducted a point for a clear and illegal head butt, an egregious boxing sin.

Fury couldn't, and when referee Tony Weeks deducted a point off the British contender, things looked to be going pear-shaped.

In theory Sunderland could have been deducted a point – or points – in addition to being thrown out of the Capital One Cup but there were significant mitigating factors.

Murray was deducted a point, after a couple of warnings, in the 11th for using the shoulder, which all but ended the 33-year-old's hopes.

Quartey seemed energized from the fourth round, when Referee Joe Cortez deducted a point from Vargas after a fourth low blow caused Quartey to back away in pain.

The 11th was hard to call, as was the 12th before Steele's patience snapped and he deducted a point from McGuigan for persistently landing below the belt.