Why doesn't Steve Smoger get more high profile fights?

[C-Lo]

IMO Smoger and Kenny Bayless are the two top refs around today, Weeks used to be high up on my list but lately he's been a bit flaky, and well don't get me started with Cortez, Cole, Nady, and Mercante Jr, they all are garbage

Bayless is THE best ref in boxing. Smoger IMO is the closest to him. Cortez is just awful. I don't know how he keeps getting work in high profile fights. I don't remember the last fight he reffed where I didn't think he messed up.

Smoger is an east coast referee. He'll do the big fights in Atlantic City or New York. But not the west coast ones. Which is why you don't seem him in fights that take place in Vegas or Los Angeles.

I had no clue that happens

[CutMeMick]

Bayless is def. in the top along with Smoger.
I also have to mention my boy Raul Caiz Jr. I think he's climbing up the ranks...

Mitch Halpern RIP has been for me one of the best in recent times.

[generalbulldog]

Bayless is def. in the top along with Smoger.
I also have to mention my boy Raul Caiz Jr. I think he's climbing up the ranks...

Mitch Halpern RIP has been for me one of the best in recent times.

Wow, I just did a google search and I didn't even know Mitch Halpern has been dead for over ten years!

Seems like yesterday he was the 3rd man inside the ring for the biggest bouts.

[Kev]

I like Smoger too, but it's easier to get a good rep when you aren't reffing the biggest fights. I bet most of us can only think of a handful of fights where he was the referree compared to dozens with Cole and Cortez.

Let's remember Nick Clegg was Britains most popular politician six months ago. Now he's in government people are actually burning effigies of him and putting shit through his letterbox. He's now even been told by the police to stop cycling to work as he's likely to get killed.

Point is, the spotlight shines brightest on the biggest stage.

[CutMeMick]

Bayless is def. in the top along with Smoger.
I also have to mention my boy Raul Caiz Jr. I think he's climbing up the ranks...

Mitch Halpern RIP has been for me one of the best in recent times.

Wow, I just did a google search and I didn't even know Mitch Halpern has been dead for over ten years!

Seems like yesterday he was the 3rd man inside the ring for the biggest bouts.

Sad but true...

[JazMerkin]

Smoger is probably the best ref after Bayless, but even he had a bit of a mare the other night when he didn't stop the Adamek-Maddalone fight sooner. I'd say Robert Byrd is also pretty damn good, although he made a bit of a bum call in stopping the Pirog-Jacobs fight too soon imo.

[CutMeMick]

Smoger is probably the best ref after Bayless, but even he had a bit of a mare the other night when he didn't stop the Adamek-Maddalone fight sooner. I'd say Robert Byrd is also pretty damn good, although he made a bit of a bum call in stopping the Pirog-Jacobs fight too soon imo.

Really Jaz?
I think the Jacobs stoppage was gd. Your actually the 1st person that I know who thinks that. Shots like that can have a lasting effect. I think letting Jacobs fight on would have meant more punishment for him. You win some you lose some its how it goes.

[:::PSL:::]

I've never seen him get tense or pissed off. He's always cool, and I love the way he gives compasion to the loser everytime he call stoppage.

[JazMerkin]

Smoger is probably the best ref after Bayless, but even he had a bit of a mare the other night when he didn't stop the Adamek-Maddalone fight sooner. I'd say Robert Byrd is also pretty damn good, although he made a bit of a bum call in stopping the Pirog-Jacobs fight too soon imo.

Really Jaz?
I think the Jacobs stoppage was gd. Your actually the 1st person that I know who thinks that. Shots like that can have a lasting effect. I think letting Jacobs fight on would have meant more punishment for him. You win some you lose some its how it goes.

I think I phrased that badly in my rush to get off to training. It's not so much the stoppage but the way he wouldn't let him get up to try and beat it. I suspect Jacobs would have lost anyway but I think he deserved the right to try. I might be slightly biased as I've met him and he was a really cool guy, but I wanted him to have the chance. Saying that I also think he shouldn't have even been in the ring considering he was apparently crying in the dressing room beforehand