Nady helped Maskaev by telling him not to hold...

[Nautilus]

Maskaev was forced to box and win the fight on the scorecards... the KO win resulted due to an accumulation of great body punching and the repeated left hook.

[TheFairPole]

I disagree. Nady was trying to get into Oleg's head to throw him off of his gameplan. If Oleg was able to rest at all by holding a little bit, then he would have ko'd the Rock much sooner in my opinion.

[!! Mr. Soprano]

Maskaev was forced to box and win the fight on the scorecards... the KO win resulted due to an accumulation of great body punching and the repeated left hook.

are you kidding me?

Nady was a *****! He was gonna take a point off for nothing.

Just like Lewis said: "How can you have a HW match w/o holding?"

[mECHsLAVE]

Nady was completely ridiculous with the warnings for a bit there. There was no reason for it whatsoever. Then Rock would hold, and he'd just break them. Oleg would hold and he'd warn him. Very strange. Nady is usually a good ref.

[moochi]

Nady was completely ridiculous with the warnings for a bit there. There was no reason for it whatsoever. Then Rock would hold, and he'd just break them. Oleg would hold and he'd warn him. Very strange. Nady is usually a good ref.

100% true....i usually like Nady, but this time around, that was nowhere near holding, let alone worthy of him constantly warning him!...fkn joke actually and i think nady himself realised after about round 7 or 8 that he was seeing things!

Nady was completely ridiculous with the warnings for a bit there. There was no reason for it whatsoever. Then Rock would hold, and he'd just break them. Oleg would hold and he'd warn him. Very strange. Nady is usually a good ref.

Nady seemed uncharacteristically cranky in the JMM-Turdsack fight. Is he bringing personal issues into the ring, maybe?

[restless_438]

It almost makes me wonder if Nady was told pre-fight or a couple days earlier by some board or by HBO to make SURE no holding went on during the fight.. anyway, i don't believe it made that much of a difference to be honest, when Nady calls for holding, he makes it fairly quick for how much he was doing it

[eazy_mas]

A referee is here to do rules.

Anyway it better to watch people punch more than they hold and why are you complaining when people said it one of the best HW fights in years. You gotta thank Nady for this

[SnoopySmurf]

Larry Merchant was pissed!


"~YOU~ STOP IT NADY!"-- Larry

[PBDS]

100% true....i usually like Nady, but this time around, that was nowhere near holding, let alone worthy of him constantly warning him!...fkn joke actually and i think nady himself realised after about round 7 or 8 that he was seeing things!

....Either that or somebody had a little chat with him. It wouldn't surprise me if HBO told him to shut the **** about it and just ref the fight like he was supposed to.