Moments That Defined the Best/Worst In A Referee

[Master]

Hatton was unfairly penalised against Floyd. Cortez was bias and sucking up to Mayweather so he could carry on refereeing his fights in the future. Hatton lost his cool after that and lost the fight.

[SlimTrae]

Hatton was unfairly penalised against Floyd. Cortez was bias and sucking up to Mayweather so he could carry on refereeing his fights in the future. Hatton lost his cool after that and lost the fight.

I'm on the fence with that one. While I can't deny he was making himself too involved, but by later rounds he did let Hatton do his thing. Now was he ticked off by then? Same with Nady on Jones vs Ruiz. Worse breaks to this day for me.
Meaning- when you can count 3 breaks from a referee in the first 35 seconds...horrible. RJJ would've won, but let him win it by himself. I literally remember him calling break while they were punching.

But I digress, Master I am sure you know of a few fights that you felt a difficult job made easy by a referee or two?

[SlimTrae]

I can't think of a particular fight but overall Benjee Estaves and Steve Smoger were usually solid.

I liked when Smoger refused to let the fight begin until James Toney touch gloves with Vasilly Jirov. A few nasty low blows but Smoger handled it well.

[Master]

If I was Ricky Hatton I would have Dave Parris with me to every fight to referee. He allowed Ricky to punch Tszyu in the nuts and got away with it. He would have warned Floyd for holding and moaning. In fact he would have warned Manny for hitting Hatton whilst he was not looking when he knocked him out and given him 10 minute recovery time.

[Spicoli]

This criminal always sticks with me. People said errors or debacles, no looked like a hometown paid man. I've never seen a fighter lifted up, held in place and free to bob around like fully inflated beach ball released underwater ffs. Around 9:20 is when it all starts to go fruity but just an insane fight.

[Spicoli]

Also the poor old ref in the Antonio Tarver v Eric Harding rematch. By the end Tarver was yelling at him for almost getting Harding killed. The guy was awol!

[SlimTrae]

Also the poor old ref in the Antonio Tarver v Eric Harding rematch. By the end Tarver was yelling at him for almost getting Harding killed. The guy was awol!

Like the ref with Mercer Morrison. Mercer was like...man I could've killed the guy, he took way too long. But I still have faith, I'm sure there are some reffing moments that stood out in a sea of bad ones.