Best/Worst Referee's in the Business

Originally posted by: Christopher Moltisanti
Date: December 22, 2012 at 07:18 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Contender said:
As several people have mentioned, she's fairly consistently bad at her job. While she may have improved, the improvement has been marginal at best, and I feel that she is a danger to the fighters because of her ineptitude.
Yeah, now he's just a piss-poor judge.
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I honestly don't feel she is that bad. She is not good, but not as bad as people say. I'd say she is around number 3 as the worst active referee in terms of overall mistakes.
Wasn't she the referee who took flak from stopping a fight too early when a guy was in an armbar? Then she gets flak for letting it go on too late. I honestly feel her being a woman does not help get fans on her side.
Steve Mazz is the worst, just an overall dbag. I'm not a fan of Dana White and Brock Lesnar but I would agree with both of them that he's the worst and deserves to have his mustache punched off his face. The Lesnar-Mir calls and the "no talking" is the epitome of being a loser. Also his constant "no back of the head" is excessive in every fight I see him in.
To be fair to Cecil I'd rather see him judge a fight than referee one. I remember some video surfacing online where he made the worst call ever. Some fighter clearly tapped or was clearly out, he went to stop it and then changed his mind and the other fighter was cheap shot in the midst of this whole spectacle and lost.
 
Originally posted by: 0r3o
Date: December 22, 2012 at 09:37 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Skeletor hands down ... she shouldn't even be a ref. I dont think she should even ref WMMA. When I see her I know I can count on two things
Someone is getting jacked up when the fight should of been done because she doesnt protect the fighters
or
She is going to stop a fight for no f---ing reason all because her motherly instincts kick in
 
Originally posted by: BRF
Date: December 22, 2012 at 10:08 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Christopher Moltisanti said:
I honestly don't know why people hate Kim Winslow so much. She's made one bad mistake that I could recall. Her being a women must not help her case so I guess it's cool to hate on the "woman".
In my opinion Steve Mazz has no business being a referee. The Lesnar .vs. Mir fight was the last straw. I know everyone wanted to see Lesnar lose that one but that was crap. T
hen the "no talking" in the Lawler .vs. Diaz fight at UFC 47 was another bush league move.
And he's always "no back of the head wah wah". I'm so glad I barely see this guy anymore, it's as if they are hiring some cheap NHL referee who is biased in to ref a UFC fight whenever he's in.
A runner up to Mazz's douchebaggery would be Dan Mirgliotta. I don't think he's BAD but he's borderline there. He's made a few iffy calls and weird moves.
Cecil Peoples is also so bad that he rarely ever refs anymore. Haven't seen him on a UFC since the Sell .vs. Quarry fight, he was that bad.
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no talking is actually a rule, hes the only ref good enough to enforce it.
mazzagatti said once "i work for the athletic commission not the promoter, so not every call i make is good for business for the UFC"
 
Originally posted by: Iamnotalie
Date: December 22, 2012 at 10:50 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

I think Rosenthal and Goddard are the best recently. Definitely in the camp believing the best refs are involved the least. Dean and McCarthy are great refs, but seem to make more mistakes lately than they used to. Winslow used to be horrible and I feared for fighters' safety when I heard her name, hopefully her last few fights reffed well will become the standard for her.
 
Originally posted by: Spud
Date: December 23, 2012 at 08:15 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Off the top of my head I can think of 2 horrendous performances by Winslow - Cyborg-Finney and King Mo-Larkin.
There's also the Albert-Perez issue. She told Albert that he verbally submitted, then told the Athletic Commission she stopped the fight because she was afraid for his arm
She also messed up the stoppage in Trevor Smith vs Vilante IMO, Smith was pretty clearly going for a takedown and she stopped the fight.
Regarding Mazzagatti saying "no talking" in the Lawler-Diaz fight, he was just enforcing a rule that's rarely acknowledged. The use of abusive language is not allowed whilst fighting.
 
Originally posted by: Bucho
Date: December 23, 2012 at 04:15 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

0r3o said:
When I see her I know I can count on two things
Someone is getting jacked up when the fight should of been done because she doesnt protect the fighters
or
She is going to stop a fight for no jumping for joy reason all because her motherly instincts kick in.
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Except that neither of these things happened at the TUF 16 Finale, soooooooooooooo ...
... I guess you really
can't
count on it?
 
Originally posted by: Flound
Date: December 23, 2012 at 04:54 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Bucho said:
I guess you really
can't
count on it?
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She might have made a few mistakes, but you gotta admit;
She's totally do-able.
Haaawwwwt!
 
Originally posted by: Contender
Date: December 23, 2012 at 05:04 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Flound said:
She might have made a few mistakes, but you gotta admit;
She's totally do-able.
Haaawwwwt!
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Congratulations. You just hurt my imagination.
 
Originally posted by: C-Me-No-More
Date: December 23, 2012 at 06:44 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Flound said:
She might have made a few mistakes, but you gotta admit;
She's totally do-able.
Haaawwwwt!
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KILL THAT BEFORE IT LAYS EGG'S !!!
 
Originally posted by: LighthouseKeeper
Date: December 23, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Flound said:
She might have made a few mistakes, but you gotta admit;
She's totally do-able.
Haaawwwwt!
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Serious question: That ref or Flounds AV girl? I'm not answering because I asked.
 
Originally posted by: Contender
Date: December 24, 2012 at 12:17 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

C-Me-No-More said:
KILL THAT BEFORE IT LAYS EGG'S !!!
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If only I was cool enough to somehow Photoshop that pic for some movement and text that says something like, "HUNGRY!" and then add this sound to it:
http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/44/mp3/420727_SOUNDDOGS__pt.mp3
 
Originally posted by: C-Me-No-More
Date: February 04, 2013 at 12:52 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Kim Winslow on saturday night with that horrible horrible stand up
I think she replaces Mazagatti as the worst right now
 
Originally posted by: Spud
Date: February 04, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

C-Me-No-More said:
Kim Winslow on saturday night with that horrible horrible stand up
I think she replaces Mazagatti as the worst right now
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You know a stand up is bad when a Vegas crowd boos it.
 
Originally posted by: Flound
Date: February 04, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

Spud said:
You know a stand up is bad when a Vegas crowd boos it.
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Oh, that was a terrible call. I actually facepalmed.
 
Originally posted by: C-Me-No-More
Date: February 04, 2013 at 01:00 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/best-worst-referees-in-the-business.50276/

I wonder If we made a petition to get rid of her and a few others if it would work or not
 
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