Cotto Beats Corley in Disputed Fashion

[ProBox1]

Tonight we saw one of the worst refereeing that I have ever seen in my life. The referee was very incompetent , he repeatedly let Cotto hit Corley after the bell, he let Cotto push Corley down, he let Cotto hit Corley while he was holding him and on the break. The ref took points away from both fighters for low blows without even a single warning.

Miguel Cotto came into the ring outweighing DeMarcus Corley by almost 20 pounds. Corley was 140 pounds while Cotto came in the ring weighing a very unfair 157. The weight advantage was apparent in the first round as Cotto rushed Corley and tried to put him away in one round. Corley went down in the first from hard shots, rather then cave in, Corley started to stand and fight Cotto toe to toe.

Cotto lost a point in the second round for a bad low blow. In the third round the fight swung in the other direction. Corley rocked Miguel Cotto and had him out on his feet when he landed a chopping right hand to the head of Cotto in the first minute of the round. If the opponent tonight was Tszyu, Mayweather or Gatti, Cotto would have never made it out of the round. Cotto had no idea where he was for almost two minutes as Corley went with the wrong gameplan to finish the job. Corley decided to attack the body of Cotto rather then the head, Corley admitted after the fight that he blew the chance to knock Cotto out.

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[Dr.Depravity]

I thought Corley fought really well considering, he was out weighed, had the ref against him, a dirty fighter on his hands, not to mention fighting in another country. Cotto shouldn't feel real good about this fight. It proved nothing.

[neils7147933]

The ref did a poor job in a handful of areas, but it's a bit excessive to say he was "against Corley". If he was, he might have chosen not to acknowledge the low blow. Or he could have counted Corley down by knockdown the second time he was on the canvas in Round 1. Or he could have counted Corley down (which Larry Merchant brought up) when Chop Chop was through the ropes. That would have been 3 KD's in Round 1 but ended up just one. Surely a guy looking to "fix" a fight would jump at those opportunities.

Both point deductions were premature and he should have let Corley continue, but likely Corley would have gone down a 3rd time before the bell at which point a stoppage wouldn't have looked so bad. Nothing landed cleanly; the ref made a bad judgment call, but nothing sinister. All that talk about stopping it in the 3rd round when Cotto got rocked is silly; using that logic we would still be talking about Kenny Kost's dismantling of the US Olympic Hero Andre Ward...

There have been worse refereeing jobs in recent memory, though. The Juarez/Rahim fight comes to mind...

[ophqui]

I thought Corley fought really well considering, he was out weighed, had the ref against him, a dirty fighter on his hands, not to mention fighting in another country. Cotto shouldn't feel real good about this fight. It proved nothing.

I agree that corely fought well under bad circumstances, but i disagree with what u said about cotto. Cotto had no better control over the referee, and he also had harsh points taken off him. I think the referee's gross incompetance ruined the fight, not miguel cottos performance. He knocked corley down fairly a couple of times, and had the fight continued i feel cotto would have finished it within that round or the next

[Duncan]

Tonight we saw one of the worst refereeing that I have ever seen in my life. The referee was very incompetent , he repeatedly let Cotto hit Corley after the bell, he let Cotto push Corley down, he let Cotto hit Corley while he was holding him and on the break. The ref took points away from both fighters for low blows without even a single warning.

Miguel Cotto came into the ring outweighing DeMarcus Corley by almost 20 pounds. Corley was 140 pounds while Cotto came in the ring weighing a very unfair 157. The weight advantage was apparent in the first round as Cotto rushed Corley and tried to put him away in one round. Corley went down in the first from hard shots, rather then cave in, Corley started to stand and fight Cotto toe to toe.

Cotto lost a point in the second round for a bad low blow. In the third round the fight swung in the other direction. Corley rocked Miguel Cotto and had him out on his feet when he landed a chopping right hand to the head of Cotto in the first minute of the round. If the opponent tonight was Tszyu, Mayweather or Gatti, Cotto would have never made it out of the round. Cotto had no idea where he was for almost two minutes as Corley went with the wrong gameplan to finish the job. Corley decided to attack the body of Cotto rather then the head, Corley admitted after the fight that he blew the chance to knock Cotto out.

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It was a totally bias, disgraceful call. Additionally, Miguel Cotto continues to strike me as a really good, strong fighter, whose only real super talent is being a middleweight who can make 140.

That said, Corley's protests fall on pretty deaf ears to me because he totally blew his chance to take Cotto out. Cotto was really ready to go, not simply stunned, but hurt in that bad way that lasts minutes. And for whatever ****** reason, Corley simply walked Cotto around the ring throwing one punch at a time. It wasn't that Corley was going to the body instead of the head, it was that he was throwing one mediocre shot at a time. He ought to be ashamed of himself as well. He blew it.

[Duncan]

I thought Corley fought really well considering, he was out weighed, had the ref against him, a dirty fighter on his hands, not to mention fighting in another country. Cotto shouldn't feel real good about this fight. It proved nothing.

I realized tonight just how dirty of a fighter Cotto really is. Nasty.

[The Phantom Menace]

Very incompetent referee. He was so bad it makes me wonder if he was doing it on purpose.