Comments Thread For: Cortez Admits He Never "Told" Floyd, Ortiz To Fight

[madsweeney]

Cortez said "Lets go" then looked and pointed at the time keeper and said "Time in" - Please look at the replay. The thing is that Ortiz should have known that the fight had started when the hand signal was given.

I know what we've all seen after studying replay after replay, but in the moment, obviously things weren't clear. And no, the ref is supposed to start the time and then the fight. Not blaming Floyd because Cortez told him to fight, just pointing out yet another one of Cortez's **** ups.

[Da Hammer]

Honestly, can you see Kenny Bayless or other top referees handling the situation the way Cortez did? I mean Ortiz brought that shot onto himself but Cortez did a poor job. He really should not be allowed to referee a top level fight again.

Cortez shouldn't be allowed to referee period. He continually screws fighters over and loses control of fights. He has no idea what he's doing, clearly time to take him to the backyard and put him down. As ref of course...

[Silencers]

Cortez shouldn't be allowed to referee period. He continually screws fighters over and loses control of fights. He has no idea what he's doing, clearly time to take him to the backyard and put him down. As ref of course...

For some reason he doesn't seem to do too badly during smaller fights, it's during these big ones where there is more pressure where he seems to lose control. So I think he can be allowed to referee fights, just not anything near the caliber of fights he's been getting.

[Sabertooth]

Watch Bayless when he ref'd Morales and Cano, when he break the fight, he said TIME IN first then BOX (or whatever).

The thing with Cortez, he clearly said LET'S GO with hand gesture. But there was a foul committed, not just a tangle up where you break it and signal with hands. That's why the time was out, it didn't even resumed but the fight "was going on" when FMJ punched.

The question is, did he say TIME IN? and should that come FIRST before saying/signalling boxers to BOX or LET'S GO? Because again, time was out because of the foul.

[jtiger777]

[Onekrazyrican]

If the hand gesture from Cortez wasnt enough to hint Ortiz that the fight had started, ide say that left hook from Floyd should have done the job. I mean why whould you look at the ref?? put your hands up or start throwing ffs!

[zzat]

I know what we've all seen after studying replay after replay, but in the moment, obviously things weren't clear. And no, the ref is supposed to start the time and then the fight. Not blaming Floyd because Cortez told him to fight, just pointing out yet another one of Cortez's **** ups.

I don't put 100% of the blame on the ref. If you've seen round 8 of Floyd vs Shane and round 1 of Floyd vs Gatti(R.I.P) a similar thing happened. In this case it ended the fight hence there are these debates. I'm one of the people who feel robbed, I still wanted to see more. Also, I feel Ortiz could have made the count but he wanted a way out of the fight.

There was a pause of a second between Floyd's left hook and the straight right - why didn't Ortiz cover up then.

Ortiz is the one that robbed.

[Pacquiao'd]

Cortez has said LETS GO and motioned fighters to fight meaning FIGHT

look at all the *******s being ******. ITS ON TAPE, you idiots

[Pacquiao'd]

Watch Bayless when he ref'd Morales and Cano, when he break the fight, he said TIME IN first then BOX (or whatever).

The thing with Cortez, he clearly said LET'S GO with hand gesture. But there was a foul committed, not just a tangle up where you break it and signal with hands. That's why the time was out, it didn't even resumed but the fight "was going on" when FMJ punched.

The question is, did he say TIME IN? and should that come FIRST before saying/signalling boxers to BOX or LET'S GO? Because again, time was out because of the foul.

if he CLEARLY said LETS GO with a HAND GESTURE to FIGHT, then how can there be a foul committed?

you just contradicted yourself, COMPLETELY.

[tostao]

'time in' means start of the fight . Ortiz already quit even before KO , was looking to bail himself out of mismatch .