Comments Thread For: Wilder-Fury Rematch: Nevada Commission Assigns Judges, Referee

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LAS VEGAS Three American judges and an American referee will officiate the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight championship rematch. The Nevada State Athletic Commission approved Connecticut's Glenn Feldman, Nevada's Dave Moretti and New Jersey's Steve Weisfeld as the three judges for Wilder-Fury II on Wednesday morning at the NSAC's monthly meeting in Las Vegas. The NSAC also assigned Nevada's Kenny Bayless as the referee for the second scheduled 12-round bout between Wilder, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Fury, of Manchester, England.
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[MDPopescu]

LAS VEGAS Three American judges and an American referee will officiate the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight championship rematch. The Nevada State Athletic Commission approved Connecticut's Glenn Feldman, Nevada's Dave Moretti and New Jersey's Steve Weisfeld as the three judges for Wilder-Fury II on Wednesday morning at the NSAC's monthly meeting in Las Vegas. The NSAC also assigned Nevada's Kenny Bayless as the referee for the second scheduled 12-round bout between Wilder, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Fury, of Manchester, England.
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... In fact, Arum said beforehand that he would like these three judges (plus Lederman)...

[vitali1999]

Looks good to me

[Tatabanya]

Judges will not be necessary. I'd be surprised if they were.

[DeeMoney]

Thoughts on Bayless as the ref?

[MDPopescu]

Thoughts on Bayless as the ref?

... are you afraid that he would pull a "David Fields"?...

[Bronx23]

I swear I coulda put money on it that they'd pick Bayless as the ref for this fight.

Fury better hope and pray he doesn't hit the canvas. Bayless won't even give a count, & if he does give one, he won't give Fury the chance to fight on he'll look at him & waive it off

[markther]

Here are all the notable fights where Kenny Bayless was the referee.


2004: Antonio Tarver vs. Roy Jones Jr.

2004: Bernard Hopkins vs. Oscar De La Hoya

2006: Manny Pacquiao vs. Érik Morales II

2006: Shane Mosley vs. Fernando Vargas

2007: Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

2008: Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez II

2008: Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito

2009: Manny Pacquiao vs. Ricky Hatton

2009: Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto

2010: Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley

2011: Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley

2012: Amir Khan vs. Danny García

2012: Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Márquez IV

2013: Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Canelo Álvarez

2014: Manny Pacquiao vs. Timothy Bradley II

2014: Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana II

2014: Andy Lee vs. Matt Korobov

2015: Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao

2015: Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Andre Berto

2016: Canelo Álvarez vs. Amir Khan

2016: Manny Pacquiao vs. Jessie Vargas

2018: Manny Pacquiao vs. Lucas Matthysse

[Bronx23]

Bayless gets way too involved in fights. Doesn't let guys work on the inside, always telling guys to "bring em up" even when there's no foul, & has a reputation for stopping fights too soon or maybe a better way of putting it, he doesn't always give guys the chance to beat a count. I'm all for fighter safety, I just feel like he gets overly eager to do something all the time.

He overcompensated in the Maidana Floyd rematch & admitted that he was slightly influenced by what he saw in the first fight. My fear is that given Wilders undeniable power, he'll be overly eager to "save " Fury if he appears to be hurt or goes down at any moment in the fight.

No doubt in my mind that if he was reffing the first fight he wouldve waived it as soon as Fury hit the canvas the 2nd time. Hopefully team Fury is smart enough to at least talk to Kenny in the dressing room. Same goes for Team Wilder, if by some miracle Fury drops or hurts him bad I'd hate for Kenny to jump in and ruin a huge fight like this.

But my guess is, they won't mind the controversy, as they'll use it as a tool to help sell the the trilogy they've already promised.

[saopaulo]

seriously mayweather's handpicked ref? that guy should have been banned eons ago. if fury so much as slips gayless will stop it,

complete horsesh-it