Lost all respect for Joe cortez!!!

[Mishra100]

He was doing a great job. You can't just let fighters sit there and wrestle with each other. He was warning both Floyd and Hatton.

[Scott9945]

The better fighter definitely won, but Cortez over officiated and took away from the action.

[revs1227]

i thought cortez ****ed up the fight a lil ..it would have been more exciting ..and i agree that floyd was holding more then hatton ..good job by floyd

[PeROxiDE]

joe doesn't need your respect, ricky hatton relies on clinching and thats against the rules, joe did what he had to do.

Every time Hatton stepped within 4 foot of him he split them up no matter what was happening.

Floyd's use of his elbow was to get Hatton off of him.

Cortez stressed to Hatton numerous times to quit with the holding. In the dressing room, Graham was explaining that Hatton has an "aggressive" style, etc. Cortez made it clear the fighters could fight, not wrestle.

Hatton gets away with that in the UK. He shouldn't. All the holding is unproductive and IMO, cheating. Hatton holds excessively.

Hatton didnt want to hold because he cant hit people when he holds, he wanted to take Floyd into the trenches by leaning his body weight in and bullying him, that is perfectly legal. What is not perfectly legal is ducking your head under someone elses shoulder, pulling their head down, diving through the ropes, using the elbow, etc, the list goes on. If anyone was cheating, and no excuses he won fair and square in my eyes, but IF there was cheating, it certainly wasnt Hatton.

I agree with the thread starte, Joe Cortez cost Hatton that fight, no question about it. Taking a point off him for standing still and watching Floyd flap around in the ropes is disgraceful. That meant Hatton had to throw caution to the wind and he got stopped, it happens. Joe Cortez should be ashamed of himself.

[FloydNO1KO]

i agree that you have to break it up but not so quick let them hug for a little while and see what happens not rush in straight away like that. And as for the use of elbows ricky said that he would of used them like that if he could but it wasnt he style so fairs fair.

[neils7147933]

I've been critical of Cortez since the Ouma-Phillips II fight

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

Excuses, excuses, I watched the fight again, and I'll agree the ref did let Mayweather get away with a few things, but it had nothing to do with Hatton getting knocked out. Hatton was no angle in there. He was doing a lot of muling, and hitting and holding. That's exactly why Mayweather was pushing off Hatton (in his face) with the fore arm. Hatton purposely tried to hit Mayweather behind the head, he deserved getting that point deducted. As far as the ref separating them to quick, that's BS because all Hatton would have accomplished was hitting and holding. He was trying to keep Mayweather from moving away from his punches by muling him, and that's not boxing. Lots of referees break fighters as soon as they tie up, why didn't anyone ever complain about that until now? Hatton had only one way to beat Mayweather, but that way was too dirty for boxing that's why the ref separated them. But we all knew Hatton fans would be crying after the fight. If it was so bad, why did the Brits applaud Mayweather after the fight?

[Gareth Ivanovic]

Yeah there were times that I felt Cortez broke them up too quickly and didn't let them work it out, but as the fight went on he let them do some infighting and Floyd was actually better on the inside an area you would think Hatton would dominate in.

[P4PKING_2008]

be 7 next week

How many fights have you seen that cortez has referred in? Kid

[passey]

Floyd's use of his elbow was to get Hatton off of him.

Cortez stressed to Hatton numerous times to quit with the holding. In the dressing room, Graham was explaining that Hatton has an "aggressive" style, etc. Cortez made it clear the fighters could fight, not wrestle.

Hatton gets away with that in the UK. He shouldn't. All the holding is unproductive and IMO, cheating. Hatton holds excessively.

Agree. Cortez gave both fighters explicit instructions in their dressing rooms before the fight. Both boxers knew what Cortez was going to do. No big surprise here!