worst and best referees

[jack_the_rippuh]

Steve Smoger and Kenny Bayless are my two favorite refs right now. After that would be Cortez and Nady. Nady, if nothing else, doesn't let John Ruiz get away with his ILLEGAL holding and hitting so he's legit in my book.


I hate Richard Steele more than anybody in boxing besides Ray Leonard and its really only because of that Meldrick Taylor/Julio Cesar Chavez fight.

This may be a question for another thread, but just out of curiosity why do you hate Ray Leonard?

[!! Mr. Soprano]

Mine are

Mills and Cortez

[NiGe2011]

I am a fan of Richard Steele, Joe Cortez, Kenny Baylis, and Tony Weeks. The only one that I dont really like is Jay Nady, but I am not a huge fan of Steve "Smoger" Jones either...

[jack_the_rippuh]

I am a fan of Richard Steele, Joe Cortez, Kenny Baylis, and Tony Weeks. The only one that I dont really like is Jay Nady, but I am not a huge fan of Steve "Smoger" Jones either...

His lastname is Jones?

I think you have him confused with Steve "Snapper" Jones. The NBA guy.

[NiGe2011]

I am pretty sure they are similar but both named Jones... Could be wrong though.

[oldgringo]

This may be a question for another thread, but just out of curiosity why do you hate Ray Leonard?

I appreciate that he was a great fighter, and I will give him a fair shake when analyzing his greatness, but he was such a snake. He just makes me think of one of those kids that is just always in the right place at the right time and knows how to weasel out of everything. I think he lost to Hagler and Hearns in their second fight, and I think he's just a fake mother****er in general. He's like one of those backstabbing wallstreet ****s who knows how to manipulate the system to their advantage.

Great fighter with excellent skills and a very entertaining style, but I hate the son of a *****.

[NiGe2011]

I appreciate that he was a great fighter, and I will give him a fair shake when analyzing his greatness, but he was such a snake. He just makes me think of one of those kids that is just always in the right place at the right time and knows how to weasel out of everything. I think he lost to Hagler and Hearns in their second fight, and I think he's just a fake mother****er in general. He's like one of those backstabbing wallstreet ****s who knows how to manipulate the system to their advantage.

Great fighter with excellent skills and a very entertaining style, but I hate the son of a *****.

I can see people being frustrated by Sugar Ray, his whole press conference in the ring when he announced he was going to stay retired and not fight Hagler was a media circus and a joke. But you have to give him credit, Sugar Ray on the contender ranks in some of the highest unintentional comedy ever! "This was brought to you by Home Depot and Kaboom! That's what life is all about guys!" and "Joey Gilbert coming to the rescue of the west team again" both made me laugh uncontrollably.

[xrhythmxnxbluesx]

fave are: lane and week

hate: steele and nady(shoulda never stopped the judah kostya fight)damn him...

[deuce_drop]

Nady is the all time worst, the only time i ever want to see him ref a fight is when ruiz is fighting. he would, with out a doubt, stop ruiz from doing all that holding, and maybe dq him for it. other than that, he is the worst!!!!

as for good refs, i like...
weeks
bayless
mill lane ( of course )
mitch halpern r.i.p, he would have been the next mills lane too.

[Piggu]

the referee for cotto-corley was terrible