Hatton Believes Cortez Cost him fight With Mayweather

[Lomadeaux]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/bo...ayweather.html

The fight was scheduled for 12 rounds, Hatton had prepared for 15. In the end Mayweather would need only 10.

'It f****** winds me up to watch it now, honestly it does,' the Hitman cries when Sportsmail visits his gym to watch and relive the money-spinning showdown.

'I knew it was going to be the toughest fight of my life,' he remembers.

'I still to this day think I had a chance of beating him but I think they pulled the rug out from under me, I really do.'

After nine-and-a-half ferocious rounds, Hatton was stopped for the first time in his career by the former five-weight world champion.

But it was the third man in the ring — referee Joe Cortez — who would steal the headlines.

Check out how bias the author gets there at the end.

'Embarrassing,' is Hatton's verdict on the official's performance 10 years later. 'Absolutely disgusting,' snarls his then-trainer Billy Graham.

[ShoulderRoll]

Hatton wanted every ref to allow him to mug the other guy, like the night he mauled Kostya Tszyu in England.

[Madison Boxing]

He has a point. They let ward get away with that **** all the time but when Hatton did it it wasn't allowed and 'not real boxing'. As far as I'm aware Hatton wasn't throwing elbows, headbutts and low blows like ward was either.

[Madison Boxing]

Hatton wanted every ref to allow him to mug the other guy, like the night he mauled Kostya Tszyu in England.

Aren't you a ward fan?

[PRINCEKOOL]

It was a competitive fight, but Mayweather was also winning on the inside up close 'People where shocked at the time with this dimension of his game'.

Good fight and Hatton was right in it at the time of the stoppage, only two rounds behind maybe etc

It was clear that Floyd Mayweather beat Hatton 'When a fighter is truly beaten, they will question themselves and doubt their methods' THAT is exactly what happened to Ricky Hatton 'He should of never of left Billy Graham'.

[GhostofDempsey]

Cortez would not allow Hatton to fight his fight on the inside. Any time he got Floyd near the ropes or within arms length he separated them. Cortez was Floyd's guardian angel. That said, if Ricky could not KO him there was no way he was winning a decision from the judges.

[ShoulderRoll]

Hatton wanted a referee who would not say anything if he did these things:

[Goldie]

Cortez would not allow Hatton to fight his fight on the inside. Any time he got Floyd near the ropes or within arms length he separated them. Cortez was Floyd's guardian angel. That said, if Ricky could not KO him there was no way he was winning a decision from the judges.

Y’all are really delusional. The claim that cortez didn’t allow Hatton to get within arms length is a flat out lie. Just no shame, it’s pathetic. Floyd did much more damage on the inside than Hatton did. He broke Hatton down with body shots which is what enabled the knockout.

It wasn't Cortez that stopped Hatton from fighting his fight, it was Floyd who stopped him. Floyd didn’t need Cortez to muffle Hatton’s roughhousing because his forearm did that just fine lol. He would stick the elbow/forearm in Hatton’s face as he tried to maul him which rendered Hatton ineffective. Hatton wasn’t able to do anything inside against Floyd. You should be thankful for Cortez breaking them up as much as he did because it made the fight much more entertaining. All Hatton was aiming to do was to muck the fight up and make it a wrestling match instead of a boxing match. He basically landed no clean punches he n the entire fight. Y’all just refuse to give Floyd his just due and we all know why.

[Vodkaholic]

Well its common sense cortez's ret@rdedass was on Mayweathers payroll

[paulf]

Criticizing Cortez is absurd. If you think Mayweather should have been disciplined for holding, then that's your opinion and I won't waste time arguing with it. But Cortez did exactly what he should have considering how the fight unfolded, which was:

-Floyd hit Ricky with a good shot on Ricky's way in
-Ricky eats it and moves in to maul Mayweather
-Rather than cover up, Floyd steps into Hatton. Sometimes creates an obvious clinch, sometimes an awkward tie up
-Both guys foul. Eblows, gloves to face, hit behind the head, etc.
-Ref breaks them

It's not like Ricky was leaning on Floyd against the ropes while Floyd sat there covered up, and Cortez helped Mayweather by moving in to break them. Didn't happen. When Ricky got inside, it was elbows, headlocks, shots to the back of the head, etc.

Good example is :30 left in the second round.

Ricky lands a clean left on Mayweather
Ricky grabs the back of Mayweather's neck to keep him from moving off the ropes
Floyd puts an elbow in Ricky's face
Ricky fires off a combination after letting go of Floyd's neck
Ricky leans in with all his weight and bear hugs Mayweather, physically pinning him against the ropes
Floyd puts both gloves in Ricky's face
Cortez breaks them

Cortez was just supposed to let that go on? Laughable. Someone should do a CompuBox count for how many elbows each guy landed in the fight.