Joe Cortez...Ref of the Century

[Bobby Shaw]

I posted this earlier, but I think it deserves its own thread... to honor Mr. Joe Cortez...the referee of the century.

90% of Ricky Hatton's game is on the inside. In his fight against Mayweather, Joe Cortez took Hatton's inside game away by design. Cortez didn't appear paid off, like the British ref in the Tszyu/Hatton fight. But, Cortez was obviously on a mission and he interfered whenever he could do it without giving the appearance of cheating. It was just a case of terrible reffing, pure and simple. Surely, Cortez is the most despised ref in the game right now...at least with Nady you know what's coming. Cortez is the type of guy that just loves to see his own face on TV,, read his own name in print, and the only ref that purposefully attracts attention to himself with that "I'm fair but I'm firm" crap. What kind of ref has to re-affirm that "he's fair"? Being fair is what a ref is supposed to be. Cortez is a worthless media hound who just had to insert himself into a very big match. It was much like the football ref that can't help but throw a controversial flag in the last minute of a tied ballgame. In Hatton v. Mayweather I, it was if Cortez was on a mission to save American boxing. He's a worthless sack of $%&*, a veritable vulgarian, and $%^$ing anus licking blowhard &%*sucker. He is also a detestible buffoon and self-important *******.

I've seen faeces before but you are the most smelly one.Hatton was beaten in evry department and would still get beat

[Wiley Hyena]

I've seen faeces before but you are the most smelly one.Hatton was beaten in evry department and would still get beat

It's spelled "feces." Yeah, Cortez definitely smelled of what is clinically termed as "stool", what you describe as "feces", and what I call just plain old ****.

[shadeyfizzle]

Joe Cortez is a bad ref plain and simple but at least he's no Lawrence Cole who's been suspended more times than pacman jones from the nfl. At least Cortez makes an honest attempt at doing his job properly.

And there's nothing wrong with his catchphrase. Even Mills Lane had a catchphrase back in the day

[crillz]

Not one time did I hear Joe Cortez say: "Box out of it." We heard that alot tonight in the Hatton-Malignaggi fight and I didn't see anything illegal. What I heard in the Floyd fight was Jim Lampley busting a hernia about Joe Cortez inserting himself into the fight. I heard that all night, along with Cortez' constant "Break!" That's just what I heard. But, I also saw what I saw. I saw corruption in the form of a referee. I can take it with the promoters, the boxers, and even the judges (because we're so used to it), but not in the friggin ref!

I feel you but the thing is 2 wrongs don't make a right here, maybe he was tougher than usual but Hatton didn't make it any better for himself by being KNOWN for fighting that way, Joe Cortez was just trying to be so fair that he was too strict in the process however it still doesn't make it okay for Hatton to HOLD then hit intentionally because that's illegal in Boxing, it's just not allowed and he's been getting away with it.

thing is a lot of people feel a certain way about the ref, I always hear "the ref for Bute-Andrade is crazy" or "Meldrick Taylor should have won" and I AGREE however in this case Joe Cortez was doing the RIGHT thing he was just a little TOO hard on Ricky, he even warned Floyd for **** in the fight, he was just on high alert mode but if you really pay attention to the fight it didn't matter, it was only a matter of time before Mayweather caught him.

I'm not calling you a hater because I honestly don't feel you are, I can understand ya anger but maybe you ain't seeing the reasons behind Cortez's actions, Ricky Hatton has gotten past MANY opponent's doing that **** and Cortez knew about it, he was trying to nip that **** in the butt before it could unfold. in a nut shell he added a little too much salt to the food but it still came out good, it didn't completely ruin the food but I can notice the taste lingering. he did good considering, he may have been on high alert but it DID allow for the fight to be fought without illegal tactics..

[hammerhiem]

Just for the record, by the rules as applied by the governing body for the Bute/Andrade fight the ref and timekeeper got it 100% correct.

Bute goes down with 3 seconds left in the round, ref starts the count with time up but fighter down as he should, timekeeper doesn't ring the bell as he shouldn't.

Bute up in 7 actual seconds (not count of 7, 7 actual seconds.) By the rules from that moment on all he has to do is convince the ref he is capable of beating an 8 count.

Ref counts to 8, asks Bute to move towards him, which is the standard way to beat an 8 count, Bute does so the ref cleans his gloves, calls box on, Timekeeper rings fight over.

[sitai]

floyd was beating ricky on the inside...
watch the fight again!

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