Arguably the worst refereeing ever!

[The Natural Born Runner]

I've just watched the UFC: Brisbane card, because I fell asleep last night and missed the main card.

I'm actually in disbelief at how bad Steve Perceval was in that 2nd round. Some could argue that Magny would have been stopped by another referee for the trouble he was in, in round 1, but that turned out to be a good decision to let it slide.

But round 2... that is honestly 10x worse than a similar one, which was the Chris Weidman one at 194. It's like Steve Perceval had a bet that it was going the distance, he continuously kept yelling "fight back Hector" in a desperate voice.

My god, that annoyed the hell outta me, very happy for Magny - but that beating has pretty much drawn the end to Hector's relevance and the remainder of his career. I'm going to make another post about my thoughts on him.

The refereeing deserved it's own thread.

What do you guys think? Am I missing something here? How was he even let out for the 3rd round, he was clearly concussed and absolutely out of it.

 

[iwhoopedbatman]

It wasn't until the very end of the 2nd round that I thought it was unjustifiable to continue. But there was absolutely no reason to have a 3rd round. Should have called it in the final moments of the second, or while he was on the stool.

 

[Reach4theSky]

I agree. Especially the 2nd round in the Magny/Lombard fight. Dude was teeing off on Hector for like a minute and a half. Then in the main-event, Hunt lands one bomb and the fight is over. wtf?

 

[MilesAbove]

Thumbs up

 

[ShoopNazi]

He's only 40.

 

[dim_]

The refereeing deserved it's own thread..

You are right, which is why it has about 10 since last night




And I thought he did great, I would have let it go even longer.

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

You are right, which is why it has about 10 since last night




And I thought he did great, I would have let it go even longer.

Take it you don't like Hector then?

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

Thumbs up

Not in mount, not flattened out, has a leg, covering his head.

 

[Kick Strickland]

early stoppage imo

 

[basementdweller]

My thoughts were similar watching the fight TS. Very disappointing refereeing there.

 

[MilesAbove]

Not in mount, not flattened out, has a leg, covering his head.

I feel like you didn't get the joke.....

And Herb Dean is still worse. I at least understand Percival was trying to be consistent with giving fighters a chance to work out of punishment. Dean is inconsistent, allowing some to die and others to be prematurely stopped. Maybe Percival will become the worst, but he's about 40 mistakes off for now.

Anyway, way to miss the joke.

 

[RockyLockridge]

The whole card reeked of "LET THE AUSSIE WIN"

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

I feel like you didn't get the joke.....

And Herb Dean is still worse. I at least understand Percival was trying to be consistent with giving fighters a chance to work out of punishment. Dean is inconsistent, allowing some to die and others to be prematurely stopped. Maybe Percival will become the worst, but he's about 40 mistakes off for now.

Anyway, way to miss the joke.

For sure I had no way of knowing you were joking - you could have been deadly serious.

Also, I'm not calling the man the worst referee ever, I'm saying that might be the worst display of refereeing ever. I think there is definitely worse out there in tiny shows - but in a co-main event of a UFC event, that was shambolic.

Herb has also made fantastic calls, and has a huge sample size comparing to these "no-names", I think Herb does a great job and makes mistakes like everyone.

 

[ill0giKaL]

I've just watched the UFC: Brisbane card, because I fell asleep last night and missed the main card.

I'm actually in disbelief at how bad Steve Perceval was in that 2nd round. Some could argue that Magny would have been stopped by another referee for the trouble he was in, in round 1, but that turned out to be a good decision to let it slide.

But round 2... that is honestly 10x worse than a similar one, which was the Chris Weidman one at 194. It's like Steve Perceval had a bet that it was going the distance, he continuously kept yelling "fight back Hector" in a desperate voice.

My god, that annoyed the hell outta me, very happy for Magny - but that beating has pretty much drawn the end to Hector's relevance and the remainder of his career. I'm going to make another post about my thoughts on him.

The refereeing deserved it's own thread.

What do you guys think? Am I missing something here? How was he even let out for the 3rd round, he was clearly concussed and absolutely out of it.

Yeah I agree exactly. I was going to make a thread on it myself, but you beat me to it... I mean we can Justify the ref not stopping it in the 1st round because Neil Magny still WON the FIGHT.. But wow... Hector Lombard was getting bombarded with clean shots and DOING NOTHING to protect himself for a full minute and 20 seconds... He had NO answer, NO defense except for putting his hands over his cheeks/ears which the punches still get through and it hurts very badly ... He had the MAN'S BACK and had him flattened out, he was going NOWHERE... Even Magny tried to plead with the ref too stop it... Even after the ref let the 2nd round expire Lombard was in no fighting shape after that and the fight should've been called.. They should NOT have came out for a 3rd round at all and Lomard getting finished 46 seconds into the 3rd round just proves that even more.... Idk if he had a bet with his bookie that'd Hector would win, but that fight shoud've been stopped in the 2nd..... This ref has done this on more then one occassion he's going to get somebody hurt.. I hope the Athletic Comission realizes this and sends him back to the small promotional cards to polish up his game..... because at this point he's a LIABILITY.

 

[Davey Crockett]

I've just watched the UFC: Brisbane card, because I fell asleep last night and missed the main card.

I'm actually in disbelief at how bad Steve Perceval was in that 2nd round. Some could argue that Magny would have been stopped by another referee for the trouble he was in, in round 1, but that turned out to be a good decision to let it slide.

But round 2... that is honestly 10x worse than a similar one, which was the Chris Weidman one at 194. It's like Steve Perceval had a bet that it was going the distance, he continuously kept yelling "fight back Hector" in a desperate voice.

My god, that annoyed the hell outta me, very happy for Magny - but that beating has pretty much drawn the end to Hector's relevance and the remainder of his career. I'm going to make another post about my thoughts on him.

The refereeing deserved it's own thread.

What do you guys think? Am I missing something here? How was he even let out for the 3rd round, he was clearly concussed and absolutely out of it.

We've become so accustomed to Herb Dean - esque stoppages so much that people are arguing the case that a fight could have been stopped, when the fighter in question went on to make a comeback. It takes a lot of energy to try to finish a guy with true grit who doesn't want to be put away like Magny, and I welcome Perceval's reffing. It just makes me think of other fighters that were denied the right to make a comeback after seemingly great adversity. Uriah Faber v Barao stoppage was the worst piece of reffing I've ever seen.

 

[7th]

the Hunt/Mir ref was terrible. The ref with Magny/Lombard did fine and that's how reffing should be done. You guys act like a fighter can't tap anytime he wants. Lombard gave a thumbs up and wanted to continue.