What if Joe Cortez stopped Pacquiao/Marquez 1 after the third knockdown?

[SheenLantern]

How would this have affected both of their careers? How would it have affected the whole 2000s? Would there have been any talks of a rematch after such a (seemingly) decisive victory? Would Pacquiao be ranked much higher P4P with his biggest rival extinguished?

[DuckAdonis]

Joe Cortez is a dumbass

[Zaroku]

Then his Marquez 's pedigree would never be known..

I dreamed about being a ref... But ,,,,, I'd make too many wrong calls .. I know I would

[johnbook]

What if the one judge who scored it wrong, had it right?

Didn't one judge have it 10-7 when it should have been 10-6?
1 pt off for losing the rd and 3 off for each KD.
wouldn't that have given Pac a W instead of a D?































D.

[GhostofDempsey]

If Burt Clements wasn't incompetent and had scored the third knockdown, Pacquiao would have won the fight.

[QueensburyRules]

--- Say what you will about Clements, but he at least manned up to his error, something fairly infirm Cortez could never do.

[Anthony342]

What if boxing had done the right thing and overturned the draw to a win for Pacquiao. The people in charge of sports need to start doing the right thing and manning the f*** up. Like when that umpire Jim Joyce got the call wrong at first base and robbed that pitched of a perfect game back in what, 2010? And it was proven in replays the call was wrong and Bed Selig still wouldn't correct the mistake because be made up some bull**** excuse about setting a bad precedent. Of what? Correcting mistakes? It's like Bill Parcells said when he was asked about it when instant replay was brought back to the NFL "Just get the calls right" and those two they got wrong, really wrong. I guess Selig was afraid of people protesting every little call, but that's what challenge limits are for and it's not like managers are protesting all the time, it's maybe once or twice at the most per game. Just do the right thing and stop hiding behind your corporate or government bureaucracy.

And if judges score a fight wrong, review it and if it's decided it was wrong by an unbiased panel, overturn the f****n thing.

[johnbook]

What if boxing had done the right thing and overturned the draw to a win for Pacquiao. The people in charge of sports need to start doing the right thing and manning the f*** up. Like when that umpire Jim Joyce got the call wrong at first base and robbed that pitched of a perfect game back in what, 2010? And it was proven in replays the call was wrong and Bed Selig still wouldn't correct the mistake because be made up some bull**** excuse about setting a bad precedent. Of what? Correcting mistakes? It's like Bill Parcells said when he was asked about it when instant replay was brought back to the NFL "Just get the calls right" and those two they got wrong, really wrong. I guess Selig was afraid of people protesting every little call, but that's what challenge limits are for and it's not like managers are protesting all the time, it's maybe once or twice at the most per game. Just do the right thing and stop hiding behind your corporate or government bureaucracy.

And if judges score a fight wrong, review it and if it's decided it was wrong by an unbiased panel, overturn the f****n thing.

Not gonna happen because many fights are predetermined if you know what I mean. And they don't want to have the corrupt judging changed or even properly scrutinized else they might end up showing where it leads.

[OctoberRed]

I remember Cortez being interviewed on this and I believe he said he nearly did stop it, I think.

[Anthony342]

Not gonna happen because many fights are predetermined if you know what I mean. And they don't want to have the corrupt judging changed or even properly scrutinized else they might end up showing where it leads.

Then you cut off the head of the monster. Follow it where it leads and cut its head off and put an end to the corruption. What's that old saying? Evil only exists when good people do nothing? This stuff only happens because we as a society allow it to happen. It's only a small group of people that control this, so it's up to us as a people to rise up and fight corruption. There are more of us then there are of them. The real problem is too many people just accept it. That's the real reason why it's not gonna happen. It's like when athletes go on strike in a sport and instead of staying away, fans just accept the terrible treatment and return like battered wives making excuses. Even the fans that do leave are replaced tenfold by more existing fans or new fans. So we need to stop accepting this bull****.