Angel Rivera

[ClawRidesAgain]

Angel Rivera gets to officiate big matches, and the Big10 announcers generally say he is a good ref.

That said, I do not like it when he is officiating.  It seems like there is always some controvery with his calls, and I think he injects himself too much into the matches.  There seem to always be issues with restarts.

This is my personal opinion, which may are may not be correct.

I wonder what others think.

 

[JimmyCinnabon]

I think the controversy comes from every fan base believing he has some personal vendetta against their program. 

[Alces Alces Gigas]

I hate the fact that he coaches while reffing.      Let the kids wrestle as they want and penalize and award points when warranted!   

[wrestle87]

3 hours ago, ClawRidesAgain said:

Angel Rivera gets to officiate big matches, and the Big10 announcers generally say he is a good ref.

That said, I do not like it when he is officiating.  It seems like there is always some controvery with his calls, and I think he injects himself too much into the matches.  There seem to always be issues with restarts.

This is my personal opinion, which may are may not be correct.

I wonder what others think.

 

I agree with this a lot.  I really don't like his "style" of refereeing, but I have to say he has been around FOREVER, and he gets to ref big matches because, for many of them, we don't notice him being there, which is the whole point.

When you mention a ref who injects themselves into matches too much, all I could think of was that poor ref who was in the Vito Fix match last year.  That was probably the hardest match to officiate last year, but he was just on the wrong side of so many calls, even with replay.  

When I get frustrated with Angel, I remember that dude's performance in that match, and I remember...it could have been a lot worse.