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To be fair to Mr. Libby, there is a point to making these kind of statements as a speaker. You want to shake your audience up a bit and get them to think of fights in a different way then simply "it's against the rules and players that do it are wrong." He's encouraging refs to take proactive steps to prevent fight situations from developing. Sure it's an over-generalization, but that is the point of the statement in the first place.
Fights can clearly happen for many reasons. And little or nothing that an official does or does not do justifies players fighting. That said, an official that manages games effectively will prevent many situations that could lead to fights. I have no doubt that this is what Mr. Libby meant when he made the statement.
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