Very worst ref of all time...?

Spoken like a neophyte. Steele is one of the best to ever be a third party in the ring. Meldrick's revealed injuries speak volumes of what Steele knew and the fans could not comprehend.

 

Knowing all that, Steele did the best thing possible. Rob Taylor of his victory.

We have a genuis here don't we.:hi:

 

Richard Steele was a very fine ref, that was until Don King started giving him backhands in the form of money.

:-(

 

Definitely one of the most horrid examples of ineptitude and callousness I've ever seen from a ref.
I didn't know the ref's name before I read this thread, so thanks for the info.

 

While it's naive to say no man is above corruption, don't you think you're being a little harsh on Steele? Sure, the Taylor and Ruddock stoppages were highly questionable, but is that enough to say Steele was in King's back pocket?

 

I thought Steele's stoppage of Tyson-Ruddock I was way worse. At least Taylor went down and when asked if he was okay didn't respond. Ruddock just got hit with some good punches and went backwards to the ropes. Apparently that means stop the fight. Ugh.

But I don't think these are the worst refs at all. To me the worst ref is one on the take. I'd say the ref in the Juan Coggi-Eder Gonzalez I fight was the worst I've ever seen because he was obviously fixed.

 

He was a fine fighter, but as a referee 'Jersey' Joe Walcott was very dangerous.

 

I second this. He collapsed before the conclusion of Maxim/Robinson, let Ingo whack Patterson when Floyd wasn't protecting himself (then let Johansson flatten him five more times), then froze when Griff exploded on Paret. One of those IBHOF inductions which strips that outfit of any credibility.

 

Jack Welch must be up there.

He was the referee for the Ad Wolgast vs Mexican Joe Rivers title fight where both fighters landed simutaneously and were floored (kind of like in Rocky II) and Welch picked up the unconcious champion Wolgast and counted out Rivers.

Welch wasn't exactly impartial.

 

Spot on choice. :yep

 

He was not meant to be; he was Wolgast's friend, and personal referee. It may sound dodgy now a days but under Frawley it was perfectly legal, and if you were a challenger it was acceptable, because it was the only to get the Champ to put the championship on the line.

 

Roger Tillerman, and that is that!

 

Nobody could have been any worse than Walcott or Louis.

 

Good call with Louis, he probably was worse than Walcott. I think though that was recognized and Louis normally used his refeering skills in pro wrestling....

Mind you I should not mock wrestling, at least they gave him a few pays days, it took the boxing community a long time to come to the aid of one of our greats.

 

Magana was the worst for letting the Duran-Moore fight go on in all it's brutal, sadistic glory, all for the sake of Latin Machismo. Sure the fight was a brutal masterpiece, but it should have been stopped at the very latest at the time of the knockdown, or maybe even a round earlier.