2012 MMA Referee of the Year (Poll)

Cammo101 · Post #1 » by **Cammo101** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:15 am

Back for year 3.

Nemesis21 · Post #2 » by **Nemesis21** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:29 am

Marc Goddard?! Are you f'ing kidding me? That guy is easily the worst current ref.

Cammo101 · Post #3 » by **Cammo101** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:36 am

Nemesis21 wrote:Marc Goddard?! Are you f'ing kidding me? That guy is easily the worst current ref.

Really? What match can you remember him screwing up in? He is usually discussed as one of the best and certainly better than Lavigne, Mazagatti, or Miragliota.

Post #4 » by **CPT** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:29 pm

None of the above.

REDDzone · Post #5 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:41 pm

Wario Yamasaki.

SDM · Post #6 » by **SDM** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:02 pm

Goddard's been pretty good. Dean, as discussed here regularly, is hit and miss and becoming more miss. Rosenthal is almost always solid. Kim Winslow has had some tough fights with near finishes lately and she's handled them well, though she does miss infractions like grabbing the fence... she is improving though. The rest are terrible.

REDDzone · Post #7 » by **REDDzone** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:06 pm

Herb always stops fights a few seconds early and Rosenthal a few strikes late. If we could combine those two into bizarro Josh Herbenthal we may be onto something.

I don't remember any major Big John screwups. So despite the fact that "You gotta WORK!!!!!!" (in wheelchair guy from Family Guy voice) makes me cringe more than any other non-Dana phrase in mma, he may be the answer.

Bernman · Post #8 » by **Bernman** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:15 pm

Yeah, none of those guys were particularly good. I always appreciate the neck tattoo guy, Keith Peterson. He refs the smaller guys, mostly.

cowboyronnie · Post #9 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:46 pm

Both Herb and Josh are really authoritative and sound, even if - yeah - they each lean on stoppages differently. I went with Rosenthal. He also makes some amazing calls, don't forget...noticing subtle things and understanding the game.

Rogan went after Mazagatti a bit last weekend, I appreciated that. He was laying back ridiculously and missed some infraction because of it.

Nemesis21 · Post #10 » by **Nemesis21** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 6:43 pm

Cammo101 wrote:
Nemesis21 wrote:Marc Goddard?! Are you f'ing kidding me? That guy is easily the worst current ref.

Really? What match can you remember him screwing up in? He is usually discussed as one of the best and certainly better than Lavigne, Mazagatti, or Miragliota.

I would have to go back and look, but Goddard is horrible. He let Palhares take about 3 unnecessary punches from Lomard.

Nemesis21 · Post #11 » by **Nemesis21** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:18 am

Jason Herzog and Keith Peterson should have been in this poll.

REDDzone · Post #12 » by **REDDzone** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:32 am

Whose the guy with the stache longer than any other human's beard?

I vote that guy.

K1NG · Post #13 » by **K1NG** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:50 am

REDDzone wrote:Whose the guy with the stache longer than any other human's beard?

I vote that guy.

High 5 · Post #14 » by **High 5** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:06 pm

K1NG wrote:
REDDzone wrote:Whose the guy with the stache longer than any other human's beard?

I vote that guy.

I've seen this guy multiple times, but I've never truly appreciated this wonder until this gif. I think I'm usually fast-forwarding through whatever fight he's working.

Post #15 » by **spykelee** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:40 pm

K1NG wrote:

That is a tremendous stache no doubt

But the first american to ever win the world championships??

I just happened to have watched a netflix documentary on this guy yesterday. This seems as appropriate a place as any to post...

And seeing as I'm in this thread, to answer the question, I picked Big John. Not that he officiated any memorable matches or did anything signifigant, but everyone else is just so damn incompetent. Big John wins each and every year until somebody else proves capable.