Arthur Mercante Jr. sucks

[Dick Buffman]

Great job arthur

Exactly. He's a man's ref and did an amazing job as always.

**** these *******.

[catalinul]

Only the ref can stop it....Foreman wanted to continue.....it was a good job.

If he would've won he would've won.

[KingTito]

I thought he did fine. He made a choice and went with it. Yuri wanted to continue, and he deserved to have a chance to defend his title.

[Pugilistic™]

Sometimes a fighter's safety should be looked at moreso then the fighter's decision to fight. I mean he gave him the chance to fight on, but Foreman went down again off his knee. He could barely stay up on his own. Giving him a chance is debatable and I see your point there, even though I disagree, but Foreman going down because of his knee time after time shows he was in no condition to fight.

I'm sure everyone who says they wouldn't be upset if Foreman won, bitched at Martinez-Cintron. Kind of a similar situation where the ref ****ed up. Only this time a terrible scoring decision wasn't made and Foreman didn't actually get KOd.

I think your exaggerating Foreman's leg injury.

It went under him once and the second time he slipped. After that his leg locked a couple times but besides that he did ok.

It wasn't like Cotto was battering him round after round and then the injury happened. he didn't take alot of punishment before the injury and he didn't really take that much after it. He certainly got more hittable though.

[CiganoBoxer]

Arthur Mercante Jr is a propper ref IMO !
Great job man !

[cupocity303]

He was terrible in Clottey Cotto too. For every good thing he does (ripping off the tape, telling Emmanuel Steward to not give directions to Cotto) he ****s it up by blowing something.

In Cotto Clottey, he didn't warn Cotto for that body slam if I remember correctly.

Damn I forgot that he was the same guy for Cotto-Clottey.

"Common be a champion, suck it up".....


Hey sometimes ref's like that are needed for the pussified acting fighters. Clottey was looking for points deductions and a break and Mechante wasn't gonna give it to him.

Too many refs do it strictly by the book and even want to pull the quick trigger, just so they can go home. Not this guy, so for that I respect him.

[Evil Abed]

Arthur Mercante Jr is a great ref and he did a great job.

[..WaRSpencE..]

Come on Warp..man up bro!

I usually agree wit u..but this is bull****..Foreman wanted to continue..and Mercante let him..he wasn't on ***** street or out of his senses..he knew exactly what was goin on and decided to continue..

Clottey was a ****in joke in the Cotto fight..he overreacted the slam
when all Cotto did was shed him off of him..and also overreacted the rabbit punch..he was hoping Cotto would get a point deducted..

Mercante keeps it real..and gives the fans what they want..if that fight would have gotten stopped wit that bull**** towel throw..a lot of casuals would have been turned off..it was great reffing from Mercante..

[Vasyl’s dad]

I hope you were calling for a DQ when Roger entered the ring for no reason.

[deuce_drop]

You heard me. People praise him because Cotto won and Yuri showed a ****load of balls, but could you imagine if Foreman somehow came back and won? Every Cotto fan would be complaining that it should be overturned and that Foreman's corner gave up.

Regardless of who threw the towel (which I think it was the corner), Yuri was seriously hurt. He had major balls to fight on, but Mercante AT LEAST should have taken him to the doctor to have Foreman checked out.

There was no sign of the doctor even close to the ring. The corner going into the ring should have been an automatic DQ to boot. It was crazy the fight went on.

marcante did a great job, and he followed the rules to a Teeeeeeee! he couldn't have done a better job with all that. also, marcante called " TIME OUT " at that point the cornermen could enter the ring. if you don't believe so, just look at the mayweather-judah fiasco, as much as I and everyone thought floyd would've been DQ'd because of roger coming into the ring, steele had called " time out " so entering the ring is legal and not ground for DQ.

also, only the referee can stop the fight, if you were paying attention the state rules and the sanctioning rules, you would've known that........


both refs last night did a impeccable job..