Worst ref ever, missed at least five calls

+Karl Cranny I think that shot at 7:54 is just a straight in angle. I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure. Still a good shot none the less.

I had to slow it down to see it. A crazy splat.

Absolutely smeared that splat!

I know this comment is over a year old but do you know where I can see the rest of the match? Thanks in advance if you see this.

it's a straight-in shot guys. splats are pretty obvious. 1:37 is an example of a splat not just because it's obvious visually but because of the characteristic splat sound the shot makes, hence its name.

Ain't no joke. IRT: "Sponsored by Bob's Painting Service - those guys are great - Sally's Salon - do you know Sally, she's great, too - Oh, look there's someone playing racquetball in front of us, perhaps we should talk about what is going on there for two seconds? Nah, screw that - I love this city, what a great place to visit. R-what?

+Valerie Curtis ... Jansher Khan? I realize the games are played in a box but that pretty much where the similarities end. Most Squashers I know are Racquetball converts (especially the Americans) and most of have played both games, it's a very difficult comparison.

+kckcmctcrc My point about Kane and Jansher Khan has to do with knowing angles better than their opponents. In tennis, squash or racquetball, the player who controls court positioning wins 90% of the time. Just look at Nadal for example. In 2013, he was inside the baseline, and he had an amazing year. Now look at how he performed in 2015 - his court positioning was much worse, especially in his matches with Djoker. It appears Uncle Tony has him trying to play up on the baseline. With Jansher Khan and Kane, they expend less energy than their opponents because they control the T.

36 is still prime for RB..there is a 55 yr old pro at my club and he destroys guys in their 20's...I'm not talking about A players either

Sorry, but 36 is in the deep twilight of the *Pro* levels, except for a few cases like Ruben and now Rocky. Athletic prime is in the mid 20s, but serious training and persistence can get you into the 30s. The database on bossconsulting.com/irt can show you the facts per pro player. Kane is 34 now, so it'll be interesting to see how long he can last. I have played national amateur champions in all age groups for decades and know what you are talking about with that 55-year old, but the pro game has a few levels of it's own above that. The lack of money for new pro players in Racquetball is what keeps the 30 somethings in the top 10 ranking. These stats from Tennis illustrate what I am talking about: farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6136209542_447f7a8490.jpg

I do get what you mean..a great 25 yr old beats a great 40 year old. But there are exceptions when someone is exceptional and I think Kane fits that description. He has several years of domination ahead of him.

Tom zxzu Exactly. Kane, Cliff, Sudsy, and a few others were on a level all their own. We'll know when the next great appears because he'll show up in the top 8 or top 4 rankings relatively quickly.

I'd say Kane has held up pretty well - LOL. He's the GOAT - end of story.

Well stated.

+Charles Parr Players are like this when they first go pro. After a while they realize it's not worth it. Also, when Kane came back from suspension in 2008, he was a different person. He destroyed Jack and all the other players on tour.

@@2bhyman huge crybaby. the Swain is cool calm and collected

He did when he was 20 (his age in this video). He's still going to complain at the refs sometimes but it's not nearly as much as this.

@@edyue1 Which is interesting to me, because I've seen Cliff be exactly like Kane was here when playing against Huczek in this era.

Kane at one point could have probably beaten people as an amputee

yes, but it has to bounce off the floor 1st to be legal, if it hits the back wall 1st than it's a long serve which makes it now a 2nd serve.

@@ThePleshe1in this video it seems like there are no fault serves, they just seem to side out on the first bad serve. I know golden era racquetball wasn't like that and it isn't like that today. I wonder what's up when they did that and how long it lasted. tbh I kinda like the no fault rule.

Kane is the AlphaZero of racquetball. I know that may sound ridiculous but the closest to him is rocky Carson and hes lost to him like 68 of 71 matches except the first time they played the others were forfeits

@Chad Larson There were many missed penalty hinders that should have been called. Playing through it at the professional level is an easy out. Make the right call and there's no argument from Kane's side then it would be Cliff moaning.

All champions cut their teeth against other great players. IMO, the difference with Kane is the combination of focus, drive to win, near perfect mechanics, speed (physical and mental), shot-making, excellent coaching, and strong support structure (racquetball family). Several great players had a few of those factors, but Kane has them all in spades.

That and cocaine

get over yourselves squash players, this is racquatball...Deal with it

Unless Syn is a squash player, I don't think anyone in here is a squash player.... Not sure who you are referring to?

@@lasertuber His focus is otherworldy. No other player has the mindfulness at ALL times that he maintains.

Kane wasn't the goat yet but he was right there playing the current goat 😀

Cliff served a serve over and over that forces Kane to hit through him. He made a choice on that. At least one of those should have been an avoidable.

2 serves is a relatively new rule, I wish they'd go back to 1.

Lol they made the 1 serve rule because cliff would drive serve even on second serves. They were so effective they had to ban second serves to make it more fair

@@kamallamasama yup yup....like when the nba made dunking illegal because of wilt chamberlain's dominance. cliff and wilt common ground....spooky.

+Rigo Suave Why would he be mad? Kane won the match in 5, beat Jason Mannino in the final match in 3 and has never looked back.

+Ron Butler He acted mad throughout this whole game. If you didn't notice, he wasn't exactly thrilled with many of the calls and he ended up losing (this first one at least; I know you said he won the match in 5). I wouldn't consider him the happiest of players, especially telling the ref one was a horse**** call.

+ceeone335 Mad? He won.

He whines a lot but is also the greatest racquetball player of all time.

2 of the best all-time in this sport?! Not_a_chance you'd score 5 on these guys. And, I haven't even seen you play.

+Addy C: They'll also get whopped playing any halfway decent shuffle board player....IF they were playing Shuffle Board. If you're suggesting a Squasher could beat these guys at R-Ball you're very mistaken....but if you're saying a Squasher would beat these guys at Squash...well then, of course the Squasher would win, especially if the R-baller is not familiar with the game, they're very different.

kckcmctcrc If it were a simple rally between a squash player and a racquetballer on either court, the squash player would win.

completely disagree with you here...I've played squash for years (4.5 in tournaments) these guys would kill me or any squasher in R-ball. it would take forever to get use to that bouncy ball.

kckcmctcrc I played both, but I stuck with squash all through college because (at least for me) it was more exciting. The points in r-ball are short and all you really have to do is clumsily swat in the general direction of the ball. It just doesn't take as much skill or reasoning whereas squash takes a ton of both. There's a huge element of randomness to r-ball whereas squash (though not without its variables) is mostly pure skill. It hurts waaayyy worse to get pegged by an r-ball, though.

***** Yep.