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

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  1. Kamikaze

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    100% Refs who think the fans are there to watch them are so ****ing cringey.
     
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    Yes indeed it was a tragedy
     
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    Like Joe I'm firm but I'm Fair Cortez what BS
     
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    hahahah that was great ... !!!!!
     
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    robert ungurean Богдан Philadelphia Full Member

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    Mills was great. I picked Cappuccino because a few people picked Mills already and Frank was cut from the same no nonsense mold and let guys fight.
     
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    I would be insufferable.

    I would aim to get the fighters out of the ring alive, and if that might result in some controversial stoppages, then so be it.
     
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    Hey Rob.. Did you like Davey Pearl ??
     
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    Stanley Christodoulou.

    Solid citizen and great guy all round.
     
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    He was on Knockout Kings 2000.
     
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    How about the bad luck referee Octavio Meyran of Mexico, every champion lost his title while he was officiating.
     
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    I’d like to be the guy who took the huge, retirement-level bribe to ‘keep it fair.’
     
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    Arthur Mercante sr.
    Carlos Padilla
    Harry Gibbs
     
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    Harry Gibbs was a no nonsense referee much like Mills Lane, he kept the bouts that he was officiating fair. Arthur Mercante Sr was also the same way. Carlos Padilla let the fighters fight, he was a fighters referee.
     
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    Arthur Donovan seemed to handle every big fight imaginable in the 30s & 40s...

    UKs Eugene Henderson, pure Gentleman & Straight Up by all accounts unlike a few other UK Refs "too Close to the Capital."
     
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