British referees are incompantant and biased

[Dynamite Kid]

There is a referee who owns a Boxing equipment shop in Wolverhampton his name is John Coyle and ive met him he is a nice bloke, but he stinks as a referee.

He is the one who let Frank Bruno club away at Joe Bugner when he was virtually sat on the ropes and he is the same ref that let Alex Arthur take too much punishment against Michael Gomez

Why didn't Mickey Vann call time and let Malignaggi sort his hair out instead of making him fight on when he clearly couldn't see?


British refs just suck big time!

[Police Mon!]

British is better.

[Enemy/Friend]

Cortez used to be good in the 90's. He went from being known as one of the most reliable referees to being one of the most hated because of the way he handled Mayweather-Hatton and also Soto-Lorenzo.

I think many British referees stop the fights too early. It might be because of the 90's ring tragedies with Watson and McClellan.

The guy has reffed over 170 title fights an out of those,how many controversies has he had through his long career? I think his age may be catching up to him....

[beecherhq]

I think theres bad referees everywhere and i agree there are some particularly bad ones in Britain, there also some good referees like Mickey Vann.

[Spacey1991]

why make a thread like this man????????????it only starts the bull**** u.k-usa ****

Very true... I am a Brit, and I agree... I am dodging the bullet on this one.

[Dynamite Kid]

I do think that hometown referees and judges protect their champions, not only in England but everywhere else in the world.

I've seen it happen here in Finland at the lower levels of boxing.

It's a part of boxing and always has been.

Bunce is a funny guy but my only problem with him is that he likes to start this rivalry between Americans and Brits. It doesn't bother me because I enjoy a good banter but when you start calling American Heavyweights cowards then it boarders on delusional.

Machine you dont live in Finland do you ?


Yeah, Bunce is pretty entertaining and funny, but when he crosses that line it makes me cringe.

[P4PKING2008]

And Khan when he went down in a fight. He got up ref was counting at 3 iirc khan went and touched down again and waited for the 8 count. In the rules it would have been a TKO victory for his opponent.

[Dynamite Kid]

Anyone see the first Johnson v Woods fight?

[WLAD_OWNS]

The corrupt British ref was ridiculously biased in the David Haye/Lolenga Mock fight....Mock put Haye down twice and had him badly hurt, wobbling everywhere, holding on for dear life....any other ref would've stopped it, but the fight was in Limeyland and the baised corrupt Limey ref let the fight continue...David Haye should have 2 KO losses on his record right now.

[Dynamite Kid]

The corrupt British ref was ridiculously biased in the David Haye/Lolenga Mock fight....Mock put Haye down twice and had him badly hurt, wobbling everywhere, holding on for dear life....any other ref would've stopped it, but the fight was in Limeyland and the baised corrupt Limey ref let the fight continue...David Haye should have 2 KO losses on his record right now.

Even though Haye is one of my favs, i have to agree. Mock was stopped too early.