Ref Makes Wrestler Cut Dreads or Lose

[BobbyBooshay]

A referee known for his racism, Alan Maloney (google him), made high school wrestler Andrew Johnson cut off his dreads or lose the match. They were covered and gave him no advantage. So he cut them off

 

[BmoreGorilla]

That’s fukked up. If that was my son I’d have to have a meeting with that ref in the parking lot

 

[hayesc0]

I was just reading up on this earlier this referee is also alleged to call a black ref the N-word.

The catalyst for the quandary came on March 25 in a private shore condominium. That's where a group of officials who’d worked the War at the Shore youth tournament in Wildwood gathered — as these groups tend to do at such events — for some drinks and fellowship.


https://www.courierpostonline.com/s...ed-reaction-big-changes/90377560/?from=global
But what happened around 9:30 that night created a controversy that’s cast a dark and whisper-filled shadow across the sport’s community in South Jersey.

Over a disagreement about homemade wine, said Preston Hamilton, who is African American, fellow referee Alan Maloney poked his finger in his chest and hurled the epithet.

Maloney told the Courier-Post he does not remember using the word at all, let alone directing it at Hamilton, but believes the accounts of witnesses who told him he said the word.

Hamilton told the Courier-Post he responded by slamming Maloney, who is white, to the ground.

The confrontation ended there. The fallout, however, did not.

Through a convoluted process that lasted nearly half a year, the New Jersey Wrestling Officials Association ruled it has no jurisdiction over what happened that night.


“We’re going to move forward from here and hopefully this thing has been resolved in the back of a lot of people’s minds,” NJWOA President Guy Siraki said. “That’s my statement at this point.”

Maloney says he called Hamilton and apologized to him two days later, on Easter Sunday.

“I left it alone,” Hamilton recalled. “I’ve known Al since I was 4 years old. I was just trying to leave it alone.

“I talked to my dad about it. ... (He) gave me the advice, ‘You tell your kids about not being racist, how can you let this just blow over?’”

 

[TinFoilSnapBack]

The fact that his team or coach didn't stand up for him makes them equally responsible for this shyt.

This is like a microcosm of the cacs who say "I never enslaved anyone, so why am I being blamed?" If your ass benefits from us being shytted on, then it's on your hands, too. They know this, but act like they don't.

He still won the match for them, but he lost part of himself. I don't really blame breh for going through with it, because he might be trying to get scholarship money for college, but the coach and the team should have taken a stand. We all know why they didn't.

 

[lamont614]

If that was my son

 

[Beer Drinker]

I woulda lost that match

 

[Address_Unknown]

fukk i look like fighting for a squad that ain't came out and supported me on this shyt??

No coach, no player no nothing??

I'd lose and fukking move if I was anywhere near competition level; fukk that.

 

[lamont614]

The good thing about this this will go viral and that kid should be set for life

 

[kevin arnold]

Apparently they knew the rules before hand that’s why he had them covered. If there isn’t a policy by the state association that was violated I would sue the fukk out of that school district. Then after I won, if that was my son I would come back and punch that ref in his fukkin face.

 

[Rell Lauren]

His dreads were allowed by the rules. The ref did this on purpose. His coach and teammates failed him by not standing up for him. He participated in meets before this one with his hair in this style and it was never a problem. Why now?

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Did the ref think this young nikka is Samson?

 

[Stone Cold]

Win & Lose at the same time, brehs

 

[3rdWorld]

Id rather lose..cacs so desperate to control us

 

[Henry Orbit]

There are females that wrestle and they cover their hair, we all know the ref wouldn't try that shyt

Shame on the coaches not standing up for the kid

 

[jackswstd]

fukk that ref, after this bullshyt he should never be allowed to work another match.