Greatest Thing I've Seen From a Ref

[match]

This is the Terry Norris-John Mugabi fight. I don't know what this ref's name is but he should be given every big fight. Mugabi get's dropped and barely beats the count and deliberately takes out his mouthpiece and drops it on the canvas, hoping the ref will pause the action and pick it up and send him to a neutral corner to have it washed off and put back in, and instead of falling for this age old con or stopping the fight to take a point away like most would do, this ref just looks at it on the ground and let's Mugabi get his @ss beat without it, classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pncGgZl2MLw

[:::PSL:::]

I'm not a big fan of Joe Cortez, but you should've seen him in David Diaz v Ramon Montano bout in Pac-JMM II undercard. He did an amazing trick with the lose tape on the glove. I hope someone would post a youTube video of it here.

[Youngblood]

ref from matrix was awesome:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=FQzO9DG705U

[Spicoli]

Norris was looking some some vindication after Jackson blasted him.Man I miss Wide world big time.After that left hook,Mugabi was drunk until the end.I don't even know if Ekerd saw it come out,He let it sit right there on top of the "B" until finish It would'nt have mattered.....Norris was in a zone.

[BoomBoom]

I'm not a big fan of Joe Cortez, but you should've seen him in David Diaz v Ramon Montano bout in Pac-JMM II undercard. He did an amazing trick with the lose tape on the glove. I hope someone would post a youTube video of it here.

and he put one of their mothpeices back in without missing a beat. I think it was during an exchange.

[:::PSL:::]

I'm not a big fan of Joe Cortez, but you should've seen him in David Diaz v Ramon Montano bout in Pac-JMM II undercard. He did an amazing trick with the lose tape on the glove. I hope someone would post a youTube video of it here.

and he put one of their mothpeices back in without missing a beat. I think it was during an exchange.

Fwockin-A BoomBoom! lol! You remember that too?

Cortez was awesome that night.

[:::PSL:::]

Terry Norris was a baddass, he had that shaky chin, but he had power and had good skills when he wanted to use them. I just wish he could've had the chance to fight Tito or DLH. I remember at one time he was supposed to fight on or both of them at one point.

[Spicoli]

Terry Norris was a baddass, he had that shaky chin, but he had power and had good skills when he wanted to use them. I just wish he could've had the chance to fight Tito or DLH. I remember at one time he was supposed to fight on or both of them at one point.

He always seemed to take heat for matching with Smaller guys....or "past It" fighters.There was all sorts of talk about Norris in the p4p ranks topping Chavez and a possible Whitaker fight.There was even a tentative Match with Buddy Mcgirt I believe in 92 but The execs and Mcgirts team had some sort of falling out.Ive always liked Norris,but often had problems controlling his emotions

[oakleyno1]

micky vann in earl katsidis was amazing lol

[amat]

micky vann in earl katsidis was amazing lol

Seriously I couldn't believe that. Never seen that before. He liked that fight to much, didn't want it to end.

[Fenster]

What Mickey Vann did was great on the night (especially for our entertainment sake) but with hindsight that was a serious wrong'un. He took a gamble that he shouldn't have.

[LEGION]

This is the Terry Norris-John Mugabi fight. I don't know what this ref's name is but he should be given every big fight. Mugabi get's dropped and barely beats the count and deliberately takes out his mouthpiece and drops it on the canvas, hoping the ref will pause the action and pick it up and send him to a neutral corner to have it washed off and put back in, and instead of falling for this age old con or stopping the fight to take a point away like most would do, this ref just looks at it on the ground and let's Mugabi get his @ss beat without it, classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pncGgZl2MLw

That Mugabi dude got an all expenses paid trip to Disneyland courtesy of Norris. Holy cow!!!

Wonder if that ref took any heat over the mouthpiece thing

[Kenke]

[QUOTE=match;507137]This is the Terry Norris-John Mugabi fight. I don't know what this ref's name is but he should be given every big fight. Mugabi get's dropped and barely beats the count and deliberately takes out his mouthpiece and drops it on the canvas, hoping the ref will pause the action and pick it up and send him to a neutral corner to have it washed off and put back in, and instead of falling for this age old con or stopping the fight to take a point away like most would do, this ref just looks at it on the ground and let's Mugabi get his @ss beat without it, classic:

Gosh, sorry to see you were banned. What'd he do?! I just happened to stumble on this. The referee you like is Eddie Eckert of South Florida. He was recently inducted in to the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame (Google it, I can't post links yet.)

He was a great referee for over 30 years, he's retired now. He is also my father. Thanks for the props.

Keith Eckert

[Manju]

There was a remarkable convergence of power in the MW divisions of the 1990's. Both Norris and The Beast have to be among the top 10 hardest hitting LMW's of all-time. Then you had Julian Jackson, who was like the Earnie Shavers of these divisions. Add Gerald McClellan to the mix and I don't know if one could find 4 boxers of equivalent LB-4-LB power fighting at the same time.

They arrived just off the heals of the Hagler-Hearns-SRL-Duran era, so they were a little overshadowed. Roy Jones emerged around the same time but did not fight any of the above. Nigel Bell could pack a punch too.

Thats a lot of power in 1 and 1/2 a division over such a short timespan. I suspect the 4 mentioned first along with Hagler, Jones, and Hearns all deserve seats in the top 15 or maybe even top 10 all-time hardest hitting LMW-MW list.

[InTheNeutralCorner]

Here is one bout wherein the referee is tougher than the boxers.