What are the biggest mistakes by boxing refs in the history of the sport?

Joey Curtis comes to mind as a bit too quick to rule out champ Weaver in the first Dokes fight.

Cant remember his name, but the Ref, along with the Corner, who let Davey Moore Take a Shellacking from Duran

 

Anyone feel like the ref messed up in Benn vs. G-man in the first round? Probably not one of the biggest mistakes in history, but given what happened later in the fight, makes it pretty heavy.

 

how can anyone forget this **** boy


Richard steele

taylor vs chavez

 

Edit: Oops, wrong thread, sorry

 

Those were the first two I thought of.

 

rand neuman stopping the tyson vs williams fight after 1 knockdown in 90 seconds. heavyweight championship of the world and the guy gets knocked down, gets up asks if he is ok then stops it. pathetic

 

Jay Nadys criminally early stoppage in the Judah fight comes straight to mind at least he hasn't had a relevant fight since! One of the most crooked refs in the game!

 

Joe Cortez disqualifying Humberto Soto was pretty egregious.

 

Taylor didn't respond to the ref, he had already gotten extra time. (He went down at 17 seconds, the ref stopped the fight at 4 seconds)
13 seconds and he couldn't respond to the ref wether he was ok or not therefore the ref had to stop the fight.

 

that was pretty stupid,

what about what joe cortez was doing during the ortiz-mayweather fight. that guy was like staring off into space

 

Also taylor didn't take his gloves out the ropes, he wasn't standing by himself

 

Refs stopping lewis fight against Mccall

 

The ref that didn't DQ Mayweather for the Judah vs Mayweather fight when Roger jumped in.

 

A similar instance where the ref waited WAY to long to step in was Arthur Mercante Jr. in the Whitaker/Hurtado fight. Hurtado was clearly out on his feet and Whitaker was whaling away with lefts. Mercante waited until Hurtado fell through the ropes to stop it.

Go to the 8:00 mark.
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