mrainey

I'm not a big Kirkland fan, but Cortez should have let him try to get up. Joe is one of the most erratic and frustrating refs in the game.

When they regularly get hurt with single shots. Fight after fight, opponent after opponent.

If Cortez wanted to, he could have stopped it after the first or second knockdowns. I think not.

In the corner, Kirkland asked Cortez why he stopped the fight, and Joe explained that he'd been knocked down three times. Kirkland's tone of voice indicated that he was surprised to hear that.

He looks great but it finally seems that all the battles are caching up to him, his speech is sounding a little slow He does seem to be struggling just a little to get the words out the way he wants them. I hope it doesn't get any worse. Ray vs Mayweather, in their primes, would break every box office record there is.