The 30-year-old Londoner controversially floored his opponent while Sprott was protesting a low blow but the referee stopped the fight.
That bout was controversial, though, as the wild, inexperienced Doyle staggered his opponent before being disqualified in the second for a low blow.
Sprott looked to be gaining an advantage but he was checked by a count late in the fourth round after taking a low blow.
"There was a low blow with the sending-off of Gourcuff and when things don't go for you they just don't go for you, " commented Domenech.
Antonio Tarver, the now dethroned undisputed light-heavyweight champion, unleashed a low blow on the tussle of the old-timers for The Ring Magazine light-heavyweight belt on Saturday.
Even grizzled prospectors whooped when, after two hours and 48 minutes, the longest championship fight of the 20th century, Nelson was disqualified for a deliberate low blow.
After the decision was announced, German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle called GM's behaviour "totally unacceptable", while Christine Lieberknecht, the premier of Thuringia state, which hosts an Opel plant, called the decision a "low blow".
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Martinez came out with all guns blazing in the final round but Burns, roared on by an electric crowd, found the most damaging punch of the round and remained in control despite the champion catching him with a low blow, which was punished by the referee.
It's no secret that cellphone manufacturers and carriers alike are getting quite crafty with their marketing approaches, but Symbian went straight for the low-blow with its Boo-Hoo campaign.
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The Mediterranean has suffered a triple blow: low-tech industries hit hard by globalisation, cost competition from ex-communist members of the EU and the loss of their habitual escape valves of inflation and devaluation.
There are signs wind may be recovering from the blow dealt by low natural gas prices.
Prices will be so low it will be cheaper to blow out greenhouse gases.
And, notes Mr McGowin, in many places it tends to blow when demand is low, such as in the middle of the day, and dies down in the evening, when Americans watch television (400 kilowatt hours per year) and run dishwashers (1, 570).
After all, Europe's steel makers are enduring a double blow: prices were already low thanks to sluggish European demand in recent years, but they have been dragged down further by cheap imported steel from Asia and Eastern Europe.
Formula apportionment is attractive to governments that have punitive tax regimes, and it would be a blow to nations with more sensible low-tax systems.
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Oldham suffered a further blow when Pogliacomi had to go off after he injured himself in collecting a low cross.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has some scope to ease the blow by cutting interest rates but the Bank of Japan has already cut them as low as they can go.
The score had moved on to 91-2 in the 13th over when Tredwell struck another blow as a beautifully flighted delivery clipped the edge of Darren Bravo's bat and was snaffled low down by Strauss at slip.
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