Who was the greatest fighter to become a referee or a different type of official?

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  1. Del Boy

    Del Boy R.I.P Darren Sutherland Full Member

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    My first thoughts were Jersey Joe Walcott or Georges Carpentier.
     
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  2. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Benny Leonard maybe? :conf
     
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  3. Del Boy

    Del Boy R.I.P Darren Sutherland Full Member

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    :patsch how could i forget. Such a shame what refereeing brought him
     
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  4. anarci

    anarci Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    As a ref Jersey Joe.... DIdnt Joe Louis ref some big fight?

    Carlos Palomino and Floyd Patterson were both Head of the State Athletic commission, Califronia and New York.
     
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  5. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Joe Louis did Frazier vs Quarry II
     
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  6. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Well, that's a short thread then.:lol:
     
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  7. anarci

    anarci Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Thats right, i remember Richard Pryor joking that Joe Louis let Quarry take an extended beating because that was his way of getting back at the white man:lol:
     
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  8. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Maybe...Did Jimmy Young ever referee a fight? :hey
     
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  9. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Good question,and if he did , was he, half in / half out of the ring at the time?:think
     
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  10. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Overall, I'd think Benny Leonard would be pretty hard to top.

    Dempsey had a pretty extensive officiating resume, spanning from 1920 to 1959:

    http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=401054&cat=referee

    Jersey Joe Walcott headed the New Jersey State athletic commission from 1975 until 1984, when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.

    Jeffries refereed Hart-Root, Burns-O'Brien I and Burns-Squires I. (Burns himself refereed a number of bouts.)

    Carpentier refereed Jack-Johnson-Frank Moran in Paris, and Bob Foster refereed Frazier-Ellis II. This raises the spectre of being able to extend this to greatest fighter to become a referee by weight class. For the middleweights, I'll start by naming Willie "The Worm" Monroe. Surely a greater middleweight has performed as a third man, but Willie does hold the only decisive win over Hagler.

    Next, we might pinpoint who the greatest welter to become a referee was, as we already have our lightweight representative. We also have a featherweight representative who would be kind of hard to top, another Willie with a different nickname than Monroe's. (If we confine these candidates to the classic eight divisions, we ought to be able to compile this list pretty quickly.)
     
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  11. My dinner with Conteh

    My dinner with Conteh Tending Bepi Ros' grave again Full Member

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    Willie Pep
     
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  12. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    He probably wondered what all the fuss was about.
     
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  13. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I dont think so, Louis fought in a other era, were the fight didnt end until you count ten. Fights were rarely stop in Louis's hayday.
     
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  14. ripcity

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    There is no need for the maybe.
     
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  15. DonBoxer

    DonBoxer The Lion! Full Member

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    Benny Leonard.

    No one else is close.
     
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