Hatton Believes Cortez Cost him fight With Mayweather

[therealpugilist]

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

elbows rabbits punches low blows and all.....was like a MMA fight smh

what sport he thought it was?

[therealpugilist]

It's "mauling" for most fighters but "clever inside fighting" for Ward.

ward actually landed clean shots....and hurt kovalev with a shot to the head....was the beginning of the end

Hatton holds and hits, rabbit punches, elbows, low blows, come on bro


what does ward even have to do with it.....Ward broke his man down, hatton didnt and couldnt

[calemanregreso]

dirty dirty sport

[MUNG]

the difference between hatton and ward is that if hatton fought floyd in england, floyd would win, if ward fought kovalev in russia, kovalev would have won the first fight comfortably and the second fight would not have had so many fouls!!

[just the facts]

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.

Again, due to your inability to view anything even remotely related to Andre Ward with even a sliver of objectivity, your ignorant opinion means less than nothing.

[just the facts]

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

Ignorant rambling from an idiot

[therealpugilist]

Again, due to your inability to view anything even remotely related to Andre Ward with even a sliver of objectivity, your ignorant opinion means less than nothing.

[DaNeutral.]

We see serious cases of favouritism from refs all the time. Beyliss was clearly biased against Fury in his latest win. And this is far from a dig at America, some of the very worst have come from British soil.

Cortez was clearly biased in favour of Floyd, Hatton is rightfully angered he wasn't allowed to fight inside. He wasn't allowed to do what he did best. He was never going to win that fight. Im a big Ricky Hatton fan but Ricky was never at his best at 147 and was not on Floyd's level. And Hatton knows this.

Just would of been nice to let Ricky give it everything he had on the biggest night of his Boxing life rather than being bum rushed by Cortez everytime he got near Floyd.

[NachoMan]

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.

I always felt that Joe Cortez was one of the most corrupt referees. He is the definition of a celebrity's ref.

[GrandpaBernard]

Ricky won maybe a round