who are the 5 best Ref's in the game?

Benjy Esteves Jr,deserves an honorable mention..He's a very good ref as well..

My list goes like this(in no order) 1.Weeks 2.Smoger 3.Bayless 4.Russell 5.Caiz Sr. These are my picks.. Here are mine: 1) Bayless 2) Smoger 3) Weeks 4) Eddie Claudio 5) Earl Brown

My list goes like this(in no order) 1.Weeks 2.Smoger 3.Bayless 4.Russell 5.Caiz Sr. These are my picks.. Mitch Halpern began his career in March 1991 and went on to referee 87 championship fights and hundreds of non-title fights around the world. Halpern was trained and mentored by veteran boxing referee Richard Steele. "I taught him everything I knew," said Steele. "He took what I had taught him, and with his great natural ability, made himself a great referee." Marc Ratner, who was the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission during the time that Halpern was a referee commented, "There are certain officials in certain sports who are naturals...Mitch has a real feel for it." Steele said that Halpern approached him one night after Steele had just finished refereeing a fight and told him that he wanted to be a referee. Steele recounted, "I have had numerous people come to me and say that. I always tell them, 'I will meet you at the gym Monday.' He was there Monday. Most other guys never show up. He worked hard. He worked harder than anyone I had ever seen. He wanted to be the best." As part of the learning process to become a world-class boxing ref, Halpern asked Steele to get in the ring with him and box. They ended up boxing every day. Steele remembered, "He wanted to know how it felt to have a bloody nose and be hurt...He wanted to get the fullness out of being a boxer so he could make the right decisions...It really helped him to be the best referee of all time." PRPP :boxing:

every ppv should have steve smoger as referee.........

Mercante should be in there.

1 Kenny Bayless 2 Tony Weeks 3 Steve Smoger 4 Jack Reiss 5 Robert Byrd honorable mention - Mercante jr. He is a horrible ref but i like the way he handles his fights.

BEST 1. Benjy Esteves Jr 2. Tony Weeks 3. Steve Smoger 4. Raul Caiz Sr 5. Harvey Dock Worst 1. Russell Mora 2. Terry O'Connor 3. Marlon Wright good list. tony weeks is one of the best refs in the game along with smoger. you don't notice these guys in the ring. caiz sr is decent but talks too much and stops the action on many occasions just to lecture the fighters. he's a bit excessive.

The other choices are good and Bayless would be my choice for the best but Weeks would never be on a top referee list of mine. I think he was the referee in the Casillo-Corrales fight and he prevented Castillo from getting a KO win in my opinion. In the middle of a round in which Corrales had been knocked down and was badly hurt and ready to go, Weeks stopped the fight for at least 20 seconds to take a point away from Corrales for spitting out his mouth piece. That gave Corrales time to recover enough to finish the round and come back to win the fight. A better referee would not have stopped the action just when Castillo was a few punches away from finishing Corrales to take a damn point away from Coralles. A better referee would have waited until the round was over and taken the point away during the one minute break between rounds. Of course taking the point away would not be needed because Castillo would already be the KO winner by then.

Steve Smoger - let the fighters fight (Not that I trust any of them 100%)

Mills Lane is the GOAT. I miss that guy. But I love Smoger because he likes a good fight as much as any of us. He has no interest in interfering with the action.

BEST 1. Benjy Esteves Jr 2. Tony Weeks 3. Steve Smoger 4. Raul Caiz Sr 5. Harvey Dock Worst 1. Russell Mora 2. Terry O'Connor 3. Marlon Wright Came here to post Benjy is very underrated I like him a lot.

a better question would be, who can name 5 refs? man, who gives a damn about them, man them wearing shirts, atleast rock a t-shirt

BEST 1. Benjy Esteves Jr 2. Tony Weeks 3. Steve Smoger 4. Raul Caiz Sr 5. Harvey Dock Worst 1. Russell Mora 2. Terry O'Connor 3. Marlon Wright

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Robert Byrd is my favorite. He never gets in the way of the action, he steps in when necessary and he applies the rules a fair and consistent manner. I like Steve Smoger (who doesn't) and Ray Corona (I think that's how you spell his name) as well. I despise Jay Nady - he comes off as being a real d1ck and authoritarian, for no good reason

Weeks talks so fast when officiating am surprised the fighters even hear his instructions Jay Nady is by far the worst he always seems to fail to keep the fighters under control and ive seen him make so many errors. I liked Frank Cappuccino when he did the first Gatti -Ward fight, is he still officiating???

I can't really think of the best 5 right now but Smoger is definitely my favorite. He lets the fighters fight. Boxing is already a limited way of fighting, some refs even limit it further but not allowing no in fighting whatsoever and just being TOO cautious and stopping fights too early. These guys have trained their butts off for a long time for each fight and premature stoppages just ruin it especially when people pay to see these fights.