There was a moment of huge controversy at the AIBA World Boxing Championships in September when a professional boxer brutally knocked out an amateur.

Since the 2016 Olympics, pros have been allowed to enter some of the competitions which traditionally belong to amateurs and this has led to continuing debate over safety, with headguards also recently removed.

This debate intensified following the super-heavyweight quarter-finals.

Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov is 6-0 (6 KOs) as a rising professional and scored a huge KO of highly-touted American starlet Richard Torrez, who is yet to turn over.

Torrez had to be stretchered out of the ring as a result and was tended to by medical professionals.

He later confirmed he was okay with a message on social media.

The incident provoked two different reactions with some furious at the pro/amateur contest and others defending it.

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman declared that the fight was ‘brutal and criminal’.

However, he was contradicted by those who pointed out that Torrez was far from inexperienced himself.