U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk took it on the chin Tuesday when the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed or vacated three of four judgments the Los Angeles judge entered in cases brought by famed boxing promoter Don King.

The Ninth Circuit knocked Hauk out of the cases with a unanimous and decisive 10-page ruling, penned by Judge Andrew Kleinfeld and joined by William Canby Jr. and John Noonan Jr.