How Much Do Ref's Make?

[W1LL]

I wonder how one would 'become' a referee. I mean, it's not the sort of thing were you just wake up one morning as a kid and decide "When I grow up I want to be a referee".

[1bad65]

I wonder how one would 'become' a referee. I mean, it's not the sort of thing were you just wake up one morning as a kid and decide "When I grow up I want to be a referee".

You need to get licensed through a State Boxing/Combative Sports Department. I know for small, local shows around here, they make a few hundred dollars.

Not a ref, but Michael Buffer said several years ago on the Stern show he makes 'around seven figures' a year.

[TRUE WARRIOR]

http://www.dca.ca.gov/csac/about/official_payscale.htm

[W1LL]

I wonder why there isn't many young referees around. I could count on one hand the young ones I know of...

[RAESAAD]

I know NBA refs make like 100,000 a year.

thats a shame....they put up with some of the worst cry baby ****faces around.....then again they also make some of the ****tiest calls around....it's a toss up.

[DIOS DOMINICANO]

I know NBA refs make like 100,000 a year.

More than that. NBA refs make about 200-250K annually. And the guys who also officiate the playoffs make even more.

And they fly and stay first-class, and get a per diem on the road.

[werewolf]

http://www.dca.ca.gov/csac/about/official_payscale.htm

Interesting. I'd like to know how you get the job as a boxing judge, like Melvina. Do you need to be one of Don King's friends or relatives or ex-cellmates, or do they hire some of them straight from homes for the blind and mental institutions?




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[Fighting Cougar]

Wow very interesting.............

[McNulty]

I wonder how one would 'become' a referee. I mean, it's not the sort of thing were you just wake up one morning as a kid and decide "When I grow up I want to be a referee".

the guy below your thread is wrong from what a friend has told me and is doing the following. Maybe in the UK but is that states you have to go through USA boxing.

1. you start judging am's fights...for free
2. then you start reffin am's shows...for free..but I think theres a 50$ travel thing you git.
3. then its off to the pro's...alot of free work still

its not easy being a ref...unless you know peeps.

I'm goin on 2nd generation info. I could be totally wrong here.

[Lethal]

How much skill does it take to be a referee? It cannot be that much, can it? I mean, I'm sure you have to have plenty of boxing knowledge, and have plenty of experience around the ring, but, it's not like a very difficult job I imagine.

To be a referee you need conditioning, discipline and knowledge of the sport.

UFC referees get paid $6,000-$10,000 every night they ref so I assume boxing refs get paid the same.