So all these guys are wrong?

[Kalion]

Cortez let Mayweather do whatever he wanted and penalised Ricky for everything. If you weren't so ****in biased towards the home fighter you'd see what the guys at the start of the thread seen.

uh i never at one time saw cortez hold hattons hands behind his back while floyd hit him. Nore did i see him throw or land any punches on hatton.

Two main reasons Hatton loss:

1)He walkd into a **** load of knee buckling straights all night.(see round 8 for an example)


2)He got wreckless an started to chrge with his hands down, leaving himself open for big shots (See round 10 for a good example)


So the ref had nothing to do with hatton losing the fight because he participated niether one of these actions.

[The Weebler]

uh i never at one time saw cortez hold hattons hands behind his back while floyd hit him. Nore did i see him throw or land any punches on hatton.

Two main reasons Hatton loss:

1)He walkd into a **** load of knee buckling straights all night.(see round 8 for an example)


2)He got wreckless an started to chrge with his hands down, leaving himself open for big shots (See round 10 for a good example)


So the ref had nothing to do with hatton losing the fight because he participated niether one of these actions.

You keep talking about the later rounds. The fight was ****ed for Hatton past R4. He needed the first four rounds to make his pressure tell like Lewis said and Cortez fkd it up.

[BROOKLYN CESAR]

Yet, he allowed Floy to hold and hit in the later rounds, use forearms and duck below. ALL ILLEGAL.

Ricky wasn't holding anyway, he was leaning his body in not using arms for the most part and it was Floyd who was doing it so the ref would separate them.

If I'm an idiot all these guys are too.

Ok cry baby if this is how you want to have it then all them guys are wrong!!! Your like a ***** with a bone and you just dont want to let it go aye!!!

Floyd used his elbows perfectly making space to drill your boy!!! Hatton always users dirty tactics but when he gets a taste of his own you dont like it!!!

Like floyd said atleast your boy can fight another day!!! He just needs to be smarter and say away from skilled boxers like floyd!!! Cause he will be exposed over and over again!!!

[Left2body]

No argument from me, but he then has to be consistent.

Mayweather ducked below waist height several times, if Hatton's momentum is in forward motion and he throws a punch and Floyds ducks down then who is at fault? Perhaps both?
The rules are there for a reason, you cannot ignore one rule and jump on another. That's all I'm saying.

Sorry, but if you cannot see that Cortez had a bad night then you need to take your rose tinted specs off my friend.

As I said it did not affect the outcome but it did affect the fight.

Hatton pushed him into the ropes and PBF was clearly half way through the ropes when Hatton threw that right.

But look at this:


Look at 1:30 into the 1st Round. Ricky spins Tzu hits him with a left behind the head then follows up with right hook. Did Tzu also intentionally give his back to Hatton?

[El Jesus]

No argument from me, but he then has to be consistent.

Mayweather ducked below waist height several times, if Hatton's momentum is in forward motion and he throws a punch and Floyds ducks down then who is at fault? Perhaps both?

The rules are there for a reason, you cannot ignore one rule and jump on another. That's all I'm saying.

Sorry, but if you cannot see that Cortez had a bad night then you need to take your rose tinted specs off my friend.

As I said it did not affect the outcome but it did affect the fight.

We all knew this would happen though, we all knew hatton would be forced to fight a real fight, not try to mug and maul mayweather all night though, none of us wanted to see that here in the US, at all. Do some real inside fighting, step back and pick your shots, go to the ****in body, stand in the center of the ring and fight it out, hatton should have known that it wasnt going to go down like that.

youre right, sometimes mayweather would duck his head and hatton would just go whereever the target is, but when mayweather was through the ropes and hatton goes for the rabbit shot, hit or not hit, you and i both know that is not gonna fly, especially against the champion.

Regardless, several times i saw hatton throwing several clubbing shots that also included bolo punches, basically he felt he was being fouled and was ready to respond, it was a dirty fight, but i didint care, hatton realized mayweather wasnt going to be punked, mayweather isnt soft, and mayweather could fight hattons fight better than he could.

[eazy_mas]

you could complain intell next year but the fact stays that same
" Hatton got lost his O and Mayweather kept his."

another thing people complained about G-Man vs Nigel Benn or Tszyu vs Hatton but that does not change the fact both of these brits won the fight.

[The Weebler]

We all knew this would happen though, we all knew hatton would be forced to fight a real fight, not try to mug and maul mayweather all night though, none of us wanted to see that here in the US, at all. Do some real inside fighting, step back and pick your shots, go to the ****in body, stand in the center of the ring and fight it out, hatton should have known that it wasnt going to go down like that.

youre right, sometimes mayweather would duck his head and hatton would just go whereever the target is, but when mayweather was through the ropes and hatton goes for the rabbit shot, hit or not hit, you and i both know that is not gonna fly, especially against the champion.

Regardless, several times i saw hatton throwing several clubbing shots that also included bolo punches, basically he felt he was being fouled and was ready to respond, it was a dirty fight, but i didint care, hatton realized mayweather wasnt going to be punked, mayweather isnt soft, and mayweather could fight hattons fight better than he could.

Why was Mayweather allowed to 'mug and maul' in the later rounds? use forearms, duck under?

And Mayweather couldn't fight Hatton's fight better than he could, Hatton was fighting with one arm tied by the ref in the first 4 whereas Mayweather had a free reign from the ref in the later rounds

It was inconsistent and it was disgusting. Hope Cortez enjoys his photo with Mayweather.

[The Weebler]

another thing people complained about G-Man vs Nigel Benn or Tszyu vs Hatton but that does not change the fact both of these brits won the fight.

And weren't those people entitled to complain? But at least it was a French ref in the Benn fight, this guy was American, born in th e US of A.

[El Jesus]

Why was Mayweather allowed to 'mug and maul' in the later rounds? use forearms, duck under?

And Mayweather couldn't fight Hatton's fight better than he could, Hatton was fighting with one arm tied by the ref in the first 4 whereas Mayweather had a free reign from the ref in the later rounds

It was inconsistent and it was disgusting. Hope Cortez enjoys his photo with Mayweather.

All of the hardest and cleanest punches were landed by mayweather, in the center of the ring as well as when hatton was coming in, since when is getting caught over and over with a left hook and flying into the turnbuckle and then getting finished off mugging and mauling in the later rounds?

[Darkstranger]

The HBO US commentators - said ref not letting Hatton fight

The British commentators - side ref one-sided

David Haye (Cruiserweight champion) - said the ref ruined it

Lennox Lewis - said Floyd was doing martial arts with his forearms

Jim Watt - called the ref deplorable

Ricky Hatton - said the ref gave him nothing

Sky scorecard: clearly shows Cortez messing up the fight calling it 'the Joe Cortez show'

Daily Telegraph: 'There were mutterings of disquiet about the performance of referee Joe Cortez, who repeatedly stepped in to unlock the warring bodies'

And thats the list just starting. But I guess you guys know better than all these guys.

You're so full of bull**** it's unreal!

Yes they've all said it, loads of people have spoken about the poor performance from the ref, but all these guys also said how Mayweather showed he was the best in the world and that it was a fantastic performance. Floyd kept landing crisp jabs and right hands and those left hooks all night. Hatton kept rushing in too much, he admitted it himself!

Stop the ref nonsense now!