Yep I feel the ref was quick to warn Diaz for nothing much . I would of been more suspicious of the ref if he had let khan hold then spent ages warning him thus giving khan even more time to recover
It wasn't that he was holding during in fighting. He was straight up head-locking Diaz multiple times in each of the final rounds of the fight. Loved how the ref stopped Diaz when he had Khan hurt for punching his gloves together when that is Khan's patented move and he did it in this fight with no warnings given. Also how the ref would break them and push Diaz all the way to the center of the ring and give the "resume" motion after Khan had stepped plenty away from the ropes. Totally **** ref job.
British referee's are known to be fat, out of shape corrupt *******s. That's why fighters like David Haye would refuse Mickey Vann to referee any of his fights. He was too old school.
Only asked as some British refs some years back were very strict on taunting but I haven't seen one act so quickly since the days of harry Gibbs and Sid Nathan and earlier and they usually weren't that quick of the mark to warn a fighter for such a quick taunt