The top ten referees throughout boxing history.

Not a clue, you'd surely have to include George Siler.

I wouldn't include Goldstein for the fact his tendancy to stop fights late got someone killed.

 

That's what makes him great. Let boxers box I say.

 

Harry Gibbs from our side of the pond would have to be up there.
He had a great authority about him.

 

He was a disgrace in the first Patterson v Johansson fight.
After the first knockdown which was very heavy Floyd got up didn’t know where he was and walked away with his back to Ingo.
The fight should have been stopped there and then, but instead he lets Ingo come round the side of Floyd and hit him with a huge left hook and a right on the back of the head, which floored Floyd again. Once again there was an opportunity to stop it but he let the slaughter continue.
Patterson could have been very badly hurt in that fight.

 

Mills Lane was a good one..

The referee in boxing is very important. He has the power of the count, to enforce or ignore rules, to take point, or DQ someone. He has to have the command of the fighters when needed. The hardest part is perhaps when to call a stoppage.

Lane to me was a very constant, no nonsense type of guy.

Steve Smoger is another good one.

A boxing referee can make over $250,000 a year, but only a few top this amount.

[url]https://www.sportekz.com/money/boxing-referees-salaries/[/url]

 

Mercante Sr., Harry Gibbs, Mills Lane, Dick Young, Arthur Donovan and perhaps John Thomas. Its actually hard to find a ref that had no controversy attached to him.

 

Ruby Goldstein's existence is a stain on the sport's history.

 

Definitely not Jersey Joe Walcott

 

The very man I was going to mention Cecil. Scrupulously fair. I would also put a word in for Wolverhampton's hugely under rated John Coyle.

 

I'm a big fan of Mills Lane and Mitch Halpern. Mitch left us way too soon.

I've told this story before here... in 1995 I was dating a woman and I went over to her house to watch the Lewis - Morrison fight. She was in no way a boxing fan, but she watched it with me. When the fight was getting ready to start she goes, "Oh my God! That's Mills!" I'm like, "Yeah..." Turns out she'd worked in the Reno DA's office where Mills Lane was a DA. She apparently knew him fairly well but had no idea he was an internationally renowned boxing referee.

 

The best referees generally are the ones you never much notice. They are able to enforce the rules without being part of the spotlight.

I always thought Frank Cappuccino was really good and got little notice.

Mills was very, very good, and he liked the spotlight very, very much.