it was totally ridiculous for the ref to do that, completely unacceptable: I mean, are you kidding? if the guy broke the rules, you disqualify him, plain and simple, end of story; I don't give a cr@p about "old school", how can you in any way justify a referee assaulting a competitor like that? sure, the competitor attacked his opponents back, but by the time the ref broke it up, the guy in blue had STOPPED already, and was clearly not continuing, and furthermore, if the ref felt the need to restrain the guy, there are lots of ways to do that appropriately; no, sorry, this was total BS, and the ref should have been arrested for assault, no question about it