Who's the worst Referee?

[ThunderGatti]

Id have to say Richard Steele for the obvious reasons, that guy always seemed to be in the pocket of Don King.

ALso I dont like Earl Morton either. The reason being I know hes ref'd many Gatti fights before but the officating during the Mayweather fight was horrible, when Mayweather holding and hitting Gatti Morton called for a break and looked like he was going to walk in and seperate it, instead he doesnt and Mayweather gets a free shot on Gatti knocking him down.

Also go back to Gatti Ward II in the 2nd rd I believe Morton does the same thing, Ward is hold and hitting Gatti, Morton says break and acts like he is goin to step in but doesnt and Ward smacks Gatti w/ 3 or 4 consecutive punches, Gatti turns turn Morton and shurgs his shoulders as if sayin "what the ****?". As a Gatti fan maybe I am biased but the facts r there, look at them and decide.

[SacTown1]

QUESTION TO YOU GUYS:

who is the Philly Ref who went to Germany to ref the Michelczewski-Richard Hall fight????

The ref admitted to Hall, when they crossed paths at the airport when after returning to the US, that he was brougth over to "help" Darius and the ref said "sorry brotha, I didn't know you could hit that hard"....I believe Hall had Darius in trouble, the nDarius landed a combo and the ref just jumped in and stopped it....

ANYBODY remember this guy's name? Old African-American, greasy hair, slightly balding in front......?????????????????

[Foldem4me]

I agree.

Id have to say Richard Steele for the obvious reasons, that guy always seemed to be in the pocket of Don King.

ALso I dont like Earl Morton either. The reason being I know hes ref'd many Gatti fights before but the officating during the Mayweather fight was horrible, when Mayweather holding and hitting Gatti Morton called for a break and looked like he was going to walk in and seperate it, instead he doesnt and Mayweather gets a free shot on Gatti knocking him down.

Also go back to Gatti Ward II in the 2nd rd I believe Morton does the same thing, Ward is hold and hitting Gatti, Morton says break and acts like he is goin to step in but doesnt and Ward smacks Gatti w/ 3 or 4 consecutive punches, Gatti turns turn Morton and shurgs his shoulders as if sayin "what the ****?". As a Gatti fan maybe I am biased but the facts r there, look at them and decide.

I feel the same way. Although I'm a Gotti fan I feel that our boy was outmatched before stepping in the ring. That was a tough punch for Gotti to recover from and I think that one punch did the most damage to him and caused the fight to end earlier than it would have. I still hold that against Morton. He demonstrated his lack of professionalism by adversely affecting the fight and I don't believe he took responsibility for his actions. Perhaps in his next bout Morton will let one fighter brutally punch his opponent in the balls well after the round ends and then count his opponent out. Why not?
I tell ya, I wouldn't want to see him ref'n a fight i'm betting on. Oh, Richard Steel is also a very iffy ref. When he was in the locker rooms going over the rules with each boxer he could barely speak coherently. He seemed punch drunk as hell, if ya ask me. He also had a freudian slip somewhere before the fight. Something about "punishing" if i remember correctly. Anyone else catch that?

[Super_Lightweight]

QUESTION TO YOU GUYS:

who is the Philly Ref who went to Germany to ref the Michelczewski-Richard Hall fight????

The ref admitted to Hall, when they crossed paths at the airport when after returning to the US, that he was brougth over to "help" Darius and the ref said "sorry brotha, I didn't know you could hit that hard"....I believe Hall had Darius in trouble, the nDarius landed a combo and the ref just jumped in and stopped it....

ANYBODY remember this guy's name? Old African-American, greasy hair, slightly balding in front......?????????????????

That fight wasn't stopped; Dariusz won by decision. Oh wait yeah you mean HALL I thought it said Hill. Yeah. Still can't get that *****boy German to admit that fight was rigged. You know the guy, the German who posts on here...I forget his name. KLitschKO maybe? A real smartass Dariusz lover/Roy hater.

[everlast99]

RICHARD STEELE

[666boy666]

Most of the time the ref doesn't change the outcome of a fight, and even when that does happen, maybe it was a good decision (e.g. Taylor-Chavez).

You're kidding right? Good decision?...............Taylor is damn near brain dead now from that fight and has nothing to show for it. The fight would have ran out of time before chavez could get across the ring and Taylor would have had the victory he earned that night, gone out with honor instead of getting it taken away from the gap-toothed son of a ***** steele.

Steele gets my vote not only for being the worst ref ever, but I'm also electing him number 1 ref I will gladly go to jail for knocking the **** out of should we ever cross paths.

[2nd II none]

This shouldn't even be a question, Richard Steele hands down.

[oldwarrior]

worst referee

as an american who once lived in britain now back in the states.

NO DOUBT........mickey vann

and a blind as a bat judge too.

p.s. get rid of those skin tight, saturday night fever, high rise, ****** black polyester pants!!!!!!!!

oldwarrior

[barryboy]

as an american who once lived in britain now back in the states.

NO DOUBT........mickey vann

and a blind as a bat judge too.

p.s. get rid of those skin tight, saturday night fever, high rise, ****** black polyester pants!!!!!!!!

oldwarrior

I never noticed it b4 but a boxing writer said watching Mickey Vann referee was like watching an episode of 'come dancing' where they do the ballroom type stuff, just watching him float around the ring cracks me up now it's funny as ****.
It was a disgrace that he should have been allowed to ref so many Hatton fights on the trot it was over 10 in a row if i'm right, doesn't give off a good impression that.

[.::EnRiQuE::.]

Ismael Quinonez...he was the ref in the Cotto-Corley fight...he was SEARCHING for ANY reason to give cotto an advantage in that fight...