Geoffrey Hynes (ref)

[stujones]

Seems to be a commentators favourite....... a favourite for a slagging off.

Did you hear John Rawling wondering if he was going to score on of the fights (I think it was the Steve Barnes fight) correctly, cause he is "inexperienced" and then he highlighted some blunders he made.

Similarly, Steve Holdsworth made a bee line for Hynes, before he put a foot wrong, on the Miranda vs Joey Vegas card (shown live on Eurosport), and then each time Hynes gave the fight to the right man, Holdsworth would make the ironic comment like "oh my goodness, referee Hynes agree's with me thats a turn up".

As I don't think Hynes is a A star referee, I do tend to only see him quite infrequently - undercards of televised London shows. So just really a few questions.

1) How long has he been refereeing proffesional fights. He seems to have been around for a long time.

2) Is he as bad as the commentators seem to think he is? I can remember a few times him going with the home town fighter - but I cannot really single him out as being particularly bad.

[standing8]

ITV are in no place to critisize the referee,they got marcus macdonald + ritchie davies mixed up,then also mixed up bryan mcdermot with john

Muppet show

[Coco]

I got no problem with Hinds

[DavidPayne]

He's a poor official of a rough and tumble fight in my experience. Not authoratative enough, however, the fro is becoming outstanding.

I was waiting for the other two Pips and Gladys to come out.

[stujones]

ITV are in no place to critisize the referee,they got marcus macdonald + ritchie davies mixed up,then also mixed up bryan mcdermot with john

Muppet show

Bryan???? It was Darren wasn't it?

[napoles7]

anyone think he looks like a black Yoko Gushiken

heres Gushiken if you dont know who he is (just the secnd best Light Flyweight ever)

[Adamj1987]

he should of issed a warning on the hennessy show in 1 fight but there nothing bad about how he refs hes just a little more relaxed and wants the fighters to fight

hes also the only ref ive ever heard say or less after the round number

[n1ebf]

I've never seen Hynes and this guy together at the same time either....hmmmm


as for ITV they called Bailey , Barnes on approximately 6 occasions on Saturday. Some Duke some the commentator. Wallies......"Luckily John my Russian's fluent..."......" I thought it might be Duke".......LOL learn the bloody names then

[n1ebf]

hes also the only ref ive ever heard say or less after the round number

i thought that was a bit spooky too. Fck's sakes mate they're both aware they may get KO'd no need to add extra pressure.

Can you imagine a 21yrold Mike Tyson eyeballing an opponent then the fckin ref saying...."OK guys, 12 rounds of boxing, or less....".....who do you think that statement might psychologically upset the most. Duck egg.

Can't say I complained about how he reffed though. IMO there should be no such thing as a bad, or less competent ref. You either do it well, or you shouldn't be allowed to do it at all.

[Adamj1987]

hes also the only ref ive ever heard say or less after the round number

i thought that was a bit spooky too. Fck's sakes mate they're both aware they may get KO'd no need to add extra pressure.

Can you imagine a 21yrold Mike Tyson eyeballing an opponent then the fckin ref saying...."OK guys, 12 rounds of boxing, or less....".....who do you think that statement might psychologically upset the most. Duck egg.

Can't say I complained about how he reffed though. IMO there should be no such thing as a bad, or less competent ref. You either do it well, or you shouldn't be allowed to do it at all.

some refs have delined joe cortez used to be an amazing ref but lately hes had crap nights and im not just refering to hatton-mayweather

[hurlock]

i like hinds he's a character.

on ref's ian john lewis must be the poorest,how he's an a-star i'll never know.

[whicker]

He seems competent enough.

I don't see why there is an issue.

Of course, a single referee should never be the person scoring a fight, but then that is something that can be discussed elsewhere of course.

[bad mamma jamma]

i like hinds he's a character.

on ref's ian john lewis must be the poorest,how he's an a-star i'll never know.

agree totally with the Jon-Lewis line, he is also poor at judging fights, remember first seeing him ref the first matthew tait-dean powell fight in 1996 and Powel won by a street imo, Tait was given every round by him...

back to the main topic, i think Hinds got undue criticism from Rawling, who always makes balls ups himself, getting names wrong etc..he probably says Terry O'Connor is a good ref....

[Adamj1987]

i like hinds he's a character.

on ref's ian john lewis must be the poorest,how he's an a-star i'll never know.

agree totally with the Jon-Lewis line, he is also poor at judging fights, remember first seeing him ref the first matthew tait-dean powell fight in 1996 and Powel won by a street imo, Tait was given every round by him...

back to the main topic, i think Hinds got undue criticism from Rawling, who always makes balls ups himself, getting names wrong etc..he probably says Terry O'Connor is a good ref....

im sure he has said that before

[Coco]

I always found Lewis excellent as a ref, if I were to criticise it would be his scoring not his reffing