Marquez-Jaca Ref Slip-Up!!! (Laurence Cole Does It Again!)

[neils7147933]

Cliff “24-Karat” Rold wrote the piece that ripped referee Laurence Cole for his actions Saturday night on HBO’s Boxing After Dark. The charge made by Rold is that Cole, a veteran official, was beyond inappropriate when he told Juan Manuel Marquez that, “he was ahead on points,” this as the fight was stopped in the eighth round pending the Dr. looking at a Marquez cut.

Said Cole, “I screwed up. At first I wasn’t sure if I had said it, as someone told me right after the fight. I didn’t realize what I was doing, I was dead wrong. I expect some action from the commission. I’m not making an assumption, but I think I’ll get suspended. And I deserve to. When I saw it for myself last night, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe I did that. There was no intention on my part to do anything that would negatively impact the fight. I’m sorry, what more can I say, I screwed up.”

http://ringtalk.com./index.php?actio...ments=1&id=982

Marquez continued to fight despite what he was told. Everyone knew who was ahead anyway, but that doesn't excuse it and it sounds like the ref is willing to accept punishment.

Thing is, in a couple weeks, Taylor-Ouma are doing that open scoring crap - but he'll get in trouble for stating the obvious.

Jaca's people didn't complain, did they?

[flipside]

Omar Nino is a Champion.

not for long

[milmascaras]

it wouldn't have mattered that referee cole made that screw up because marquez knocked the snot out of that jaca chump. quit your crying already! marquez was superior that night so live with it. god damned crybabies!!!!!!!!!