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.

[Wrestleknownothing]

I find the Angel Rivera complaints to be unwarranted. He does a fine job.

[Fletcher]

6 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

I find the Angel Rivera complaints to be unwarranted. He does a fine job.

Center! Wrestleknownothing - move back to the center.

[Wrestleknownothing]

23 minutes ago, Fletcher said:

Center! Wrestleknownothing - move back to the center.

I never took instruction well. You should probably just hit me with the stall.

[Tyler]

I know people dig on him but honestly I feel like he does a fine job

[Idaho]

Angel used to be a staple in Pac12 wrestling... I am glad he is now being shared with the rest of the country, especially the Big10. 

[1032004]

He does like to make himself visible, but he still usually makes the right calls IMO (waving off the Andrews takedown being one exception).  His visibility paid off for him though, got him a part in the Robles movie