Worst Refereeing Performances

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First Ike Williams versus Beau Jack fight, too. Presumably the referee (can't recall his name right now without checking) didn't think a stoppage was legitimate unless the guy on the receiving end of it was taking punches to an almost unconscious skull and had nothing but the whites of his eyes showing.

Wayne Kelley in the Roy Jones versus Richard Hall fight, too. Talk about a dereliction of duty (same goes for that clown Aaron Snowell in Hall's corner, mind you). Still remember Merchant's disgusted comment afterwards: "That referee should be pistol whipped for allowing that fight to conitue!"

 

The most biased, incompetent ref I have ever seen is Dave Parris. Don't believe me? Just watch Tszyu Hatton. But there are 2 or 3 more other examples of Parrish's pure **** that I can think of.

 

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Ruby Goldstein was the referee and Ive never been impressed with his work!

 

Ruby Goldstein again!

 

Ian John Lewis. Vitali v Briggs.

 

Who was the Ref in the first Graziano v Zale fight. He had to hold poor Rocky up to Zale could spark him out.
Also the idiot who let Frenkel punch a virtually unconscious Enzo Maccarinelli. I was at that fight and we were screaming at him to stop it. Enzo was lucky not to be permanently damaged.

 

Ruby Goldstein again!

 

Charley Daggert was the ref in the Jack fight

 

I've always got issues with certain refs and how they handled a fight or an issue during a contest. I could discuss Carlos Padilla, Steve Smoger and Harry Gibb (whom I actually like, but for one fight on his resume) at length, but today I want to talk about 2 in particular.

1) Joey Curtis - always known as an old school ref who generally left a fight go on too long. Watch his handling of Wilfredo Gomez against Derrick Holmes. Allows Holmes to go down 8 times before he stops the fight and with a busted jaw to boot. Also watch him allow Sugar Ray Leonard to bludgeon Pete Ranzany before he stops the fight. Next up, unbelievably against his grain he jumps in with apparent early stoppage in the first Mike Weaver-Michael Dokes fight stating to the cameras, "I don't want another Du-Koo Kim on my hands." OK, that means he is going to jump in on the side of caution going forward, right? Wrong! I watched the encounter between Livingstone Bramble and Tyrone Crawley and he was back to type, with a late stoppage in the 13th. Moreover, I heard his stoppage in the James Kinchen-Alex Ramos was also late. So, what happened in the Dokes-Weaver fight? Makes one think.

2) Ramon Berumen - a Mexican referee who was complicit in stealing the opportunity of wearing the welterweight title from Armando Muniz in his first fight with Jose Napoles. With Napoles title slipping away - I believe in the 11th round - he allows Napoles to throw app. 11 full-blooded low blows square into the twins with Muniz actually raising his leg in defense and Berumen says nothing. Later, when asked why he didn't pop one back, Muniz said, "because Ramon Berumen was waiting for me to retaliate to DQ me." The fight was stopped on the Doctors advice due to the damage to Napoles eyes and Berumen had the gall to say, "due to a head-butt in the 3rd and 5th round the fight will have to go to a technical decision." Despite never being warned by Berumen for anything, Muniz loses the tech. decision as the Mexican officials deemed Napoles ahead on the scorecards.

Now clearly he was corrupt, but I'll go one better. I was watching a crazy fight on youtube that everyone should see between Toluco Lopez and Juan Ramirez. It's only a couple of minutes footage but the Mexican audience were perturbed at something and bombarded the ring with seat cushions. I mean the ring was piled up with this debris. And what does the referee do? He tells the two contestants to box on in this obstacle course while the seat cushions are still coming in. It was hysterical. There was something familiar about the ref. I looked intently and saw it was a young Ramon Berumen. Yep, inept as well.

 

Same referee as Patterson v Johansson.

 

Hagler vs Leonard had a bad ref, anytime Ray held he just said "Quit Holding Ray." He probably said it a hundred times, never took a point or anything.

 

Yeah, there’s times Hattie looks at him and Paris sort of gives him the KO and Hatton rams a forearm or a shoulder into Tszyu.

I’ve always maintained I’d that fight was anywhere else Tszyu wins. Hatton could (maybe should) have been DQ’d for what he admitted was a blatant low blow. A low blow that came in retaliation of a body punch Tszyu floored him with which was mistakenly called a low low by Tszyu.

 

You've convinced me Laurence Cole (Mares vs Agbeko) is not the worst ever.