If you had been a boxing referee, who would you have liked to be like?

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  1. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    If you had been a boxing referee, who would you have liked to be like? Maybe an Arthur Mercante Sr, or perhaps a Mills Lane?
     
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  2. William Walker

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    Mills Lane!
     
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    William Walker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ron Lipton was great too.
     
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  4. Richard M Murrieta

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    Let's get it on, then he would rub his nose. good referee.
     
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    Carlos Padilla Jr, mainly for his involvements in so many high profile fights, and also the fact that he is also a fellow Filipino as well. There's also Frank Cappuccino or Steve Smoger that I wouldn't mind being.
     
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  6. Richard M Murrieta

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    Arthur Mercante Sr. very thorough, experienced. He refereed the rematch between Floyd Patterson vs Ingo, June 20 1960, and The Fight Of The Century on March 8 1971, Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier.
     
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  7. KasimirKid

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    I don't know that I'd like to be him, but I would have liked to have seen the fights that Arthur Donovan refereed from his vantage point.
     
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    George Siler!
     
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    I'm not a fan of Mils Lane. He butt his nose into the fighters' business too often for my taste. He had too much of an ego, and it showed.
     
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  10. GoldenHulk

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    I like Tony Weeks.
     
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    Mitch Halpern (RIP).
     
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    Frank cappuccino
     
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  13. C.J.

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    Mills Lane for me small in stature but he stood no BS from the big boys. when "he DQ'D Akinwande against Lennox his " Ok Fred Astaire youre outta here" was classic
     
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  14. Richard M Murrieta

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    Too bad what happened to him, a classy man and referee.
     
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