Who do you think is the most competent referee you've ever seen officiate?

[chito]

whenever i watch fights i can't help but watch the refs also! i find their jobs interesting! well, i know this is not an easy job but sometimes these refs may or may not do their job well! an uncalled low blow, an unpenalized head butt.. name it these refs can blow a fight out of proportion! i have high respect for this referee Mills Lane (is he still alive?) i have never heard any controversy about the fights he officiated! what's your say about referees?

[puppy_dogg]

mills lane was a good ref although i beleive he was the one that pushed hopkins out of the ring and injured him in the second allen fight. obviously he did'nt do it on purpose but refs dont need to be making a royal rumble in there.

[Dark Destroyer]

I like Steve Smoger, he always impresses me and seems very fair to both fighters. I must say i always keep an eye on the referee through fights, some referees you don't hardly notice like the guy who did the Hopkins-Oscar fight.

[tino]

MITCH HALPERN was the best , you could see the fighters had mad respect for him and i cant remember him in a bad refering.

[J !]

up and comer ian john lewis

[psychopath]

When I watch fights my eyes are glued on the fighters because I have been practising scoring and comparing it to the judges scorecards after the fights so I completely take the ref of my mind but then after watching so many fights . . . i come to get familiar with Richard Steele whom I come to like . . . I'm not sure if he is still active at present and I'm not also saying that he is the best.

[baya]

Tony Weeks is the man that I've always been impressed with. The fighters respect him and he has this stay above reproach way about him in there. He should be given more important high profile fights.

[LuKahnLi]

Steve Smoger I like the best.
Kenny Bayless is good.
Tony Weeks got better the more important assignments he got.

[Explosivo]

I think Smoger did a good job in the Trinidad/Mayo fight by not stopping it in the fifth when Mayo was getting pummeled. He was just about to jump in there right when Mayo finally threw a punch.

Who i think is a ****ty ref and I wouldn't want my fighter in the ring with is that guy who did the Toney/Booker fight. That guy let Booker take such a brutal beating it borderlined on cruelity IMO. That fight should have been stopped a couple times.

[pinkpanther]

Lane and weeks - no questions asked