Worst Boxing Referees Of All Time?

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Any ref that gets older and sees that they have no real retirement plan while boxers earn millions, is susceptible to bribes or leaning to the A side.

That IS their retirement.

Others like Cole who are corrupt and incompetent should simply be thrown in prison.

 

Jack Reiss, Lawrence Cole and Ian John-Lewis are three of the very worst. Joe Cortez was terrible.

Recently, Mark Nelson in Fury-Usyk I was helping Fury. In Dubois-Hrgovic, John Latham was allowing Dubois to head butt and low blow at will.

 

Nope!!! The ref from Benny Parret and Ezzard Charles. Parret was dead in the ring after the barrage from Charles.

 

Mills Lane, Arthur Mercante Sr. and Steve Smoger set a pretty good example. It is unfortunate that the refs named in this thread didn't follow suit.

 

The one from Fury vs Usyk I

 

I'm down with Laurance Cole and Tony Weeks for today ,, but the worst job of reffing that comes to mind like a lightening bolt was Ruby Goldstein in the 1st Patterson Johanson fight. After rising from a knock down Floyd was stumbling to his corner not even looking at Ingo and Ruby waved Ingo in,,,Floyd literally could have been killed

 

Jack Riess
Eddie Cotton
Tony Weeks
Dave Parris
Phil Edwards
Mike Griffin
Mark Nelson

 

I know it may seem too fashionable and easy to write this in retrospect but I think David Fields should have at least stepped in to check out a clearly clueless Nyika before that final devastating Opetaia shot. It all happened so fast of course, and hindsight's always 20-20, but that's what refs are paid for.

 

Tony weeks

Marcus McDonnell

 

Worth noting that even the most experienced and highly regarded refs can have WTF??! nights. It was Mills Lane whom Larry Holmes kept waving over to stop a clearly-finished fight when he was clubbing a hapless Marvis Frazier.

I've seen Tony Perez's name pop up a few times in this thread. He was the AWOL ref when Gerry Cooney repetitively clobbered an already-down Ken Norton.

 

The ref of hatton vs Tszyu

 

Imho luis pabon . Corrupt and smeary .

He damaged usyk,s legacy and the credibility of the sport.

 

The arm chair referees and judges, sitting in front of their tvs, are THE worst.