Worst Ref in recent memory

May I ask why you voted for Joe Cooper? I voted for Cooper because he struck me as being blatantly biased instead of just incompetent. Pushing is technically an infraction, but it's the least serious infraction a boxer can be guilty of, some pushing off is normal and allowable, and I've never seen a point deducted for it ever before, not to mention in a very close, championship fight, Then he deducted a second point for the same thing? Why didn't he deduct a point from Peterson for coming in with his head? That's a more serious infraction and he was doing it all night.

Honourable mention to Laurence Cole... Whether it be the erroneous knockdowns of Pac Barrera 1, to the controversial JMM vs Jimrex Jaca ahead on the scorecards blunder, Not to mention the beating he let Pac put on Margarito! Im sure there's more i've missed... Cole Your doing it wrong

Isidro Rodriguez was the worst referee of all time by far. I never saw anything like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD91QpMH5no That's not bad. That has to be corrupt.

voted for mora becuase of the outrageous amount of blatant and uncalled low blows but joe cortez, given his body of work ****ing up fights like mayweather - ortiz maidana - khan, hatton - floyd, etc, deserves the most blame the guy just plain sucks consistently It's not just recently either, Cortez has been a poor ref consistenly for a long time, I'm thinking back too Starling - Molinares, how he always gets big fights I'll never know.

Isidro Rodriguez was the worst referee of all time by far. I never saw anything like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD91QpMH5no WOW! wtf is that?

In recent memory Russell Mora by far.

Isidro Rodriguez was the worst referee of all time by far. I never saw anything like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD91QpMH5no

You r mad fam. Maybe there have been much worse refereeing performances, but i've seen BARE fights with these 'infractions' where they just get warnings, no deductions! Lennox Lewis is one, he always pushes the head back wid his arm and tees off using dis as a target, i reckon it was in his fight against Vitali dat he did dis Loads of times eh, but never got deducted points for it. Now i can't remember seeing Khan doin much pushing before the 7th round. Peterson kept walking Khan down with his f***in head infronta both feet looking downwards. Dunno about yous lot but for me its an instinctive reaction when im backed against the ropes n his fists are swinging and his heads coming in low... This is how Khan boxes, with distance, the same as PBF does. Its rare seeing 1 point deduction, 2 is a joke ting. Anyway Golden Boy are complaining to the District of Colombia boxing commissions so hopefully they overturn the loss like they did for Hopkins, they'll definately order an immediate rematch and Peterson gets Knocked out this time. What the f*** was wrong with the knockdown in the first? Yu Americans are Jokes i swear down hahaha so biased its ****ery eh. The first time Peterson fell, the second time he got dropped. simple I voted Cortez purely for ruining the fight against Hatton... If Khan got docked 2 points, then Floyd should have been docked 3 in that fight, but Hatton got docked instead lmao I wrote dis in a next thread but its been ignored still - Truth is ya'll American boxers are to smart when it comes to the rules of boxing eh. However much a world class boxer Floyd is, he'll always be a 'cheat' in my eyes, Watch the mayweather vs Hatton fight in full n you will know what i mean. He's perfected the art of 'cheating' but getting warnings for his opponents. He does this by, when in a tricky situation like up against the ropes taking heavy punches, he turns hsi back on his opponent or somehow manages to twist his head around while keeping his body facin his opponent. when he does this the referee, Joe Cortez in this case, splits them up allowing Floyd a breather and some space, and warns the opponent for punching the back of the head... The Hatton fight got split up every time he got in close to Floyd and swingin punches at him. Then Floyd would go on to pot shot Hatton from distance and come in and clinch him, he'd then get split up again either for Hatton punching the back of the f***in head lol or for clinching. Then Floyd would potshot Hatton from distance again............. You see where im goin wid dis lol Dats what happened pretty much every 10 seconds of every round up until about the 8th round... Petersons tactics were spot on though when he switched after gettin dropped and outclassed/outboxed in the first 2 rounds... The way he came in head first with his head down and in front of his feet was just perfect to scupper Khans skills and tactics and to force him to commit the 'foul' lol. Wonder if the ref told him to do dat if he was gettin smashed up in the first few rounds? f***in Americans 2 American judges aswell? what a joke that is eh. An American ref and 2 out of the 3 judges. Hey, and guess which judges scored the bout 113-112 to Peterson??? It weren't the non-American that scored it 114-111 correctly i'll tell yu dat lol. Good fight still. Peterson showed bare heart as always, and by way of a miracle came away with the decision. Even with a 2 point advantage Dude, all refs are different. I DO find it hilarious that you basically said that Khan should be able to cheat without being punished. Peterson didn't head butt this dude AT ALL. "This is how Khan boxes, with distance" - Oh, my bad. From now on, let's make it illegal for anyone to fight Khan on the inside! If Khan can't adjust without holding and jumping on dudes head, he needs a new trainer. LOL at Khan looking at the ref like he was in a street fight looking at his dad for help instead of throwing the uppercut more often and ending the fight! I agree with everything you said about Floyd, so don't assume all Americans follow American fighters only. I also don't like any of the Andre's (Ward, Dirrell, Berto) - even though Dirrell could run the division if he came to fight.

Of all time is Jay Nady and Joe Cortez. Of recent memory, Rusell Mora...That was just disgusting ref job.

Maybe even the ref for the Benn vs McClellan fight, He should have noticed a difference in McClellan when he started feeling his head thinking he was bleeding, n when he just stood der blinking rapidly. At the end of the fight McClellan said (when his d***head trainer poured water on him 2 cool him down) "I feel like that waters going right through my head" Should have been stopped eh. What about the ref for the Enzo vs Frenkel fight. How he let that fight continue after the first knockdown I don't know, a complete disregard for a fighter's safety.

I'll go with Mora definitely.... also should add Laurence Cole telling JMM: "you're ahead on the scorecards, do you want to quit?" during a break in the action after Marquez sustained a cut over his eye in his bout against Jimrex Jaca.

Mora by a mile. Mora's ref job in the first Mares Agbeko fight tainted a good scrap. Mora missed calls, Mora inexplicably called a KD from a low blow he was in perfect position to see and thought he did a great job until someone told him he didn't

The guy who did Martinez Cintron or Marlon Wright. I voted Wright in the poll, but the Martinez Cintron guy for blowing that TKO.

Mora by a mile.

Cortez is the P4P king now, even if he doesn't win on single performance.

Who did the worst job refereeing in recent memory? Criteria: Lost control of the fight Injected himself into the fight unnecessarily Blatantly favored one fighter over the other May I ask why you voted for Joe Cooper?

This ref deserves to be in there, even worst that Mora.

Except for the fact Wright chewed up the remaining crucial seconds of the fight by pretending to send Andrade into the opposite neutral corner? Mora takes this due to the sheer number of low-blows he didn't call, well above double digits if someone has the time to count. not to mention he was leaning like a drunk on the ropes after ten seconds you pick the count up from the official knockdown timekeeper and then you count at a one second pace to ten by my count its about 14 seconds until he stops leaning on the ropes thats a knockout bute has a knockout loss to andrade

Mora, one of the few times I got angry while watching a boxing fight. Hope he got a nice big bag of cash for that, because that is the only way I can explain his performance.

IN comparison to a real 'bad' refereeing job, Cooper doesn't even make the top 50 list. He took points off for actual infractions, and for one fighter completely disregarding any warnings and point deductions. He would have been doing a worse job if he didn't take any points off. The only thing he made a mess of was the KD call in the first round. You kids are still just crying cause your fighter lost, not because of a bad ref. Go watch some real bad ref jobs and maybe you'll realise why some people are calling you all ****ing tools.