Opinion?

[JeremyDeschner]

Please give me your opinion on this. There are 2 issues.
1. The seconds throw in the towel and the referee refuses to acknowledge it.
2. During the fight the ref says "Are you ok CHAMP? I dont want to see you lose like this."

Is that OK???? He called the guy "Champ". Not you or not fighter. What do you think?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f_AM...eature=related

[Andrew T]

Refs should be totally unbiased and nuetral. He must have had money riding on that guy...

[JeremyDeschner]

Very possible. It is a shame though. In the perfect world all refs would be unbias.

[JeremyDeschner]

I couldn't believe that the ref is allowed to ignore someone throwing in the towel either!!! That was crazy!

[Buffington]

the towel may not be a functional part of a given organizations rules and the ref might not have any reason to acknowledged it. If its a rule its a rule ref needs to do the job and fallow the rules and enforce them. Looks like the ref is a fan and was seeing things a bit off here.

[JeremyDeschner]

I'm not aware of an organization that doesn't follow the "throw in the towel" rule. Are there some out there that either don't follow it or let the ref decide?