Should there be universal standards and cerifications for cutmen?

You are correct. So where does a wanna be cutman go for advise? Where does he go for his schoolin'?

Cutmen don't give away their trade secrets too often. But for the sake of the fighter, the guys we take care of and try to protect deserve a cutmen who has been trained and cerified? I saw a special on cut-men once, where they had all of these doctors basically say 99% of them have absolutely no idea what they're doing. They're just guys who picked up some stuff from watching fights, and the vast majority of them don't use the endswell(spelling?) properly. They said there's a handful of good cutmen and the fight doctors stop and continue fights based on which cutmen are in a fighters corner.