To people complaining about Cortez...

[DiegoFuego]

Where were you when Jay Nady didn't let Ruiz "fight his fight" by hugging Roy Jones all night long in 2003? Hatton's style is just as illegal as Ruiz's so where were you guys when that went down? I didn't hear anybody crying over Ruiz being told what to do by a ref. If Ruiz was forced to fight within the rules and nobody complained, then stop crying that Cortez made Hatton fight within the rules.

[macman]

It was mentioned by a number of people including some major writers that the result might of been different if Ruiz was allowed to fight his fight,
ie. Nady not breaking them up within seconds of them coming together.

Thought the Hatton bout was worse, as Hatton was very obviously looking to work on the inside,
& Cortez seemed to be looking for any excuse to jump on Hatton from the opening bell.

Seemed to be very obviously primed beforehand, & thought it was an extremely biased performance.


As for any bias in myself - not a fan of either fighter beforehand, am not one now.
Only reason I watched it was because of the hype.

[sterling]

if alot of fans can say (including mayweather fans) that the ref was crap then he was imo it was ****** to break them up every minute even when mayweather was tryin to fight on the inside lol.

[Franko]

Where were you when Jay Nady didn't let Ruiz "fight his fight" by hugging Roy Jones all night long in 2003? Hatton's style is just as illegal as Ruiz's so where were you guys when that went down? I didn't hear anybody crying over Ruiz being told what to do by a ref. If Ruiz was forced to fight within the rules and nobody complained, then stop crying that Cortez made Hatton fight within the rules.

Mayweather was a just as guilty as Hatton regarding foul tactics, and there is no excusing Cortez. Some of his refereeing was diplorable.

[Tuggers1986]

STEVE SMOGER SHOULD HAVE REFFED THIS FIGHT!!!

he's far better than cortez.

[cuzfozzy]

you're kidding right ?

[suzukilou]

i think the only thing that cortez didnt do enough was warn hatton for excessive holding. mills lane would have taken points for holding.

[Weebler I]

if alot of fans can say (including mayweather fans) that the ref was crap then he was imo it was ****** to break them up every minute even when mayweather was tryin to fight on the inside lol.

Its true, Mayweather even looked Cortez a couple of times like 'wtf?' with his breaking up crap.

Mayweather had come prepared to fight an inside fight.

[Franko]

i think the only thing that cortez didnt do enough was warn hatton for excessive holding. mills lane would have taken points for holding.

Give it a ****ing rest! Mayweather was just as guilty with regards to holding. Despite everything though, Mayweather was the better fighter, end of.

[S1MANC]

If cortez wouldn't of kept breaking them up we would of had 8 rounds of grappling two rounds of part boxing part grappling and 2 rounds of running and chasing... but mayweather would of still won by either UD or split...