This Is 1 Bad Ass Referee - Fight Video + Animated GIF Image

Dang, I though Truebelieber would have been home from school by now, maybe he got detention? 9th grade can be tough.
 
Truebeliever is getting turned into a human outhouse in here.
 
Referee nearly chokes out fighter to end attack on KO'd opponent



The pool of top-notch referees in mixed martial arts is fairly shallow. Herb Dean and "Big" John McCarthy are generally considered the best in the field, but one who rarely gets mentioned despite an exemplary record is Leon Roberts.

A British official who has worked UFC fights since 2008, Roberts is also a lifelong martial artist, which occasionally comes in handy when you're working with overzealous fighters.

Take, for instance, the recent Fight UK MMA amateur bout between Nathias Frederick and Ahmed Aswad held in Leicester, England.

All seemed to be going rather routinely early on, with Frederick controlling the standup game and Aswad scoring a couple of takedowns. Suddenly, with about 40 seconds left in the first round, Frederick caught Aswad on the chin with a left hook, putting his opponent out.

Immediately seeing this, Roberts darted across the cage to call a halt to the action, but Frederick refused to comply and back off, instead staying atop Aswad and attempting to add further damage to the already KO'd fighter. The quick-thinking Roberts then jumped up on his back, hooked Frederick's legs and rendered him defenseless, presumably until Fredericks either cried uncle or realized he'd waded a little too deep into the ocean.

Cooler heads quickly prevailed, and Fredericks slunk off to his corner. Of yet, there's been no word on whether any disciplinary action would be taken against him.

The scene was reminiscent of a recent hockey brawl when ref Soren Persson of the Swedish Hockey League put Norwegian forward Marius Holtet in a guillotine choke in order to put an end to the fisticuffs.

 
Referee nearly chokes out fighter to end attack on KO'd opponent



The pool of top-notch referees in mixed martial arts is fairly shallow. Herb Dean and "Big" John McCarthy are generally considered the best in the field, but one who rarely gets mentioned despite an exemplary record is Leon Roberts.

A British official who has worked UFC fights since 2008, Roberts is also a lifelong martial artist, which occasionally comes in handy when you're working with overzealous fighters.

Take, for instance, the recent Fight UK MMA amateur bout between Nathias Frederick and Ahmed Aswad held in Leicester, England.

All seemed to be going rather routinely early on, with Frederick controlling the standup game and Aswad scoring a couple of takedowns. Suddenly, with about 40 seconds left in the first round, Frederick caught Aswad on the chin with a left hook, putting his opponent out.

Immediately seeing this, Roberts darted across the cage to call a halt to the action, but Frederick refused to comply and back off, instead staying atop Aswad and attempting to add further damage to the already KO'd fighter. The quick-thinking Roberts then jumped up on his back, hooked Frederick's legs and rendered him defenseless, presumably until Fredericks either cried uncle or realized he'd waded a little too deep into the ocean.

Cooler heads quickly prevailed, and Fredericks slunk off to his corner. Of yet, there's been no word on whether any disciplinary action would be taken against him.

The scene was reminiscent of a recent hockey brawl when ref Soren Persson of the Swedish Hockey League put Norwegian forward Marius Holtet in a guillotine choke in order to put an end to the fisticuffs.



Leon is a great ref, Goddard is decent too.
 
Um, why did he put that fighter in a choke hold? Seems he could have just as easily pulled him off... like a normal ref.

A refs job is to protect the fighters which he could have easily done without putting one fighter in a choke hold. Nothing in the slightest impressive about this, and in fact it's a little repulsive. That ref should be fired.

Why do you waste oxygen when your brain doesn't function and it clearly does not benefit from it?

The ref DID try to pull him off, the fighter kept fighting and refused to stop, so the ref took action to protect a fighter unable to protect himself.

The fighter should be banned.
 
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