Name fights you can think of that ref did great/horrid job

[mako]

Tony Weeks: Jesus Chavez vs. Leavander Johnson

Chavez won by death.

[Fox McCloud]

Tony Weeks: Jesus Chavez vs. Leavander Johnson

Chavez won by death.

Ummm, I think it was actually a TKO.

I've never seen a fighter walk back to their dressing room under their own power after losing by death.

[mako]

Ummm, I think it was actually a TKO.

I've never seen a fighter walk back to their dressing room under their own power after losing by death.

Even though he was able to walk to his dressing room, he was already as good as dead. Tony Weeks let him take too much punishment.

[JakeNDaBox]

one ref I never liked was Wayne Kelly, I always thought he was a camera-obsessed attention whore, who like Larry Hazzard Sr and alot of NY/NJ-based refs, seemed more interested in changing their job description from "third man" to "First man."

so with that, let me show him some love. I thought he did a fantastic job in Wlad-Brock. Let the fighters fight, didn't get in the way unless absolutely necessary, and stopped it at exactly the right time.

I thought Arthur Mercante Jr stopped Cotto-Judah at the perfect time, but am in the minority in finding his tactics from the beginning until that point to be questionable. I thought he was in Zab's face way too much, especially for fouls that COTTO commited. I understand the potential risk of Zab going off the chain at any given moment, but he overofficiated on those occasions - and in an effort to compensate, was very unprofessional with his "hey, you know we're family, babe" comment in the corner later in the fight. Its even something his father told him a while ago - never bring your personal emotions into a prize fight. Mercante Jr was guilty of it throughout, though he redeemed himself in the end.

More on the "minority in believing he was horrid" side:
Mills got way too much credit for the Holy-Tyson II fight. He had no control of the fight, and the only reason it continued (and Tyson lost points) was because Holy demanded that he not DQ Mike. Even after the second bite, Mills was clueless until the end of the round when Mike went ballistic. He was on the slide, as a ref, further evidenced by his mishandling of Hopkins-Allen I, a rough fight, but even worse when his actions led to the fight being stopped due to injury. If I'm not mistaken, it was the last fight he ever officiated.