Jack Reiss did the single best job officiating I've ever seen. He had numerous opportunities to ruin this great fight, and didn't. It was a very challenging fight to officiate, and he performed brilliantly every step along the way. Its sad to see trolls and biased partisans out mocking him. So I wanted to put a thread up to praise him. The guy could have made himself an issue during the bulk of the fight, finding a way to insert himself needlessly and hurting the action ("Cortezing" it, or more recently "Quartaroneing" it). And he could have prematurely stopped the fight. No one really would have given him blame for it, because Fury LOOKED out. And many refs prematurely stop fights after such appearances out of raw emotion, not giving fighters any opportunity. But he, properly, gave the fighter his appropriate chance. That Fury properly beat the count has been factually established by numerous metrics, but people as always will chose to believe what they want, not what the facts are. Regardless, ultimately, it allowed for perhaps the single greatest incident of fighter recovery and courage in the last 50 years to occur . It was an amazing fight and Jack Reiss's awesome officiating helped make it that.
Best referee around in my opinion. Didnt jump in analysed looking at Furys eyes and asked him to walk up and down before making a decision. Great ref.
I t was a really good fight, better than most thought it would be & a lot of the credit has to go to the Ref tooo….
People think Jack helped Fury But at the end of round 12 when Wilder was tired and hurt against the ropes Fury was ready to start mawling him inside like he would typically do...but Jack bieng a fair ref was quick to break them from the clinch instead of letting Fury work out and mawl him like he typically does. Fury was a fair because he just let the ref do his job.
Couldn't agree more. Reiss did a fine job. And yet a lot of fans criticized him. It just goes to show that most outrage in this sport is contrived. He could have waived it off, he didn't. It was in no way a long count, it was much shorter than many fights throughout history when counts were "allowed" to be longer. Reiss does it perfectly and yet many fans convinced themselves that the count was long. It's unreal to me how anyone could complain about the ref "not" stopping that fight.
