Anthony Mouchette has overseen many bruising encounters in his time, in some participants have been red-carded for their punches, other times applauded.

The 42-year-old Police officer is a FIFA linesman and a Premier soccer referee but he also registered as a boxing official and takes control of local and international bouts.

Mouchette, and those shown the yellow card by him over the years will be surprised by this, has singled out boxing as his preferred sport, both to play and to officiate.

?I like the challenge of individual sports,? said Mouchette, himself a former pugilist who retired with a perfect 7-0 record after fighting with the Police Boxing Club at home as well as in Denver and Boston.

?If you win, you won because of what you did. But in a team sport, even if you play your best game, you can still be on the losing side.

?I enjoy refereeing both sports, but I would probably say boxing is the one I prefer.?

Mouchette will be in the ring again this Saturday for Fight Night and is looking forward to playing his part in Bermuda?s boxing premier night.

?Fight Night is always good fun and the crowd always seem to enjoy themselves,? he continued.

?It is good to see people coming out to enjoy boxing, it?s a truly great sport.?

Mouchette will once again be in charge of the top amateur bout of the evening which sees Sharieff Wales take on Freeman Smith in a re-match from last year in which Smith was knocked out with a crushing upper cut in the first round.

Watching Wales fight brings back good memories for Mouchette, who was in the Bahamas when Wales won a Caribbean Amateur Boxing Association Championship gold ? and Mouchette was also representing his country in the ring.

While Wales and Trace Easton were winning the first golds in the event for Bermuda, Mouchette was doing his bit for the sport, taking control of a number of other bouts.

?That was a really good experience for me,? said Mouchette, who ordered his first and only disqualification in that tournament, when he called a medal favourite for punching below the belt.

?It was nice to take part in an event overseas and referee at a higher level.?

Despite the brutality of boxing, Mouchette maintains that the respect he gets from the participants is far superior to what he experiences on the football field.

?You?d never get a boxer talking back at you like a footballer,? he added.

?There is a respect in the fight game, similar to what you find in rugby, that sometimes isn?t there on a football field.

?That makes more enjoyable in some ways. These guys are there punching the hell out of each other yet when they deal with you it is all done with respect.?

With the Fight Night card heavy on rugby players this year, Mouchette can expect a pretty easy ride at the Number One Shed this week, a far cry from anything he will experience at Southampton Oval, White Hill Field or Bernard Park.