The primary duty of a referee is to ensure fairness in the fight and protect the health and safety of the competitors.

“My main thing, as I said, this, you know, they're putting their health on the line. Every my main thing and is to have them fairly fight and, you know, health like them leaving and being able to fight again or whatever they want to do again, right?”

He suggests that referees must act decisively when a fighter loses consciousness to prevent prolonged damage.

“You could tell he went limp there and he was still holding for a second before before Herb stepped in.”