Seriously, that ref in the Fortuna/cotto fight was horrible. His one redeeming quality was that he allowed the fighters to punch out of clinches which I love, but he didn't break them when he needed to. One fighter would have the other in a head lock and he would be like "punch out of the clinch." Also I feel like he was scared of being hit because he would only command with his voice to break. He wouldn't actually physically separate the fighters.
Then the knockdown and the point deduction was one of the most bizzare things I've ever seen in boxing. I mean honestly, that back of the head shot was so completely obvious. Cotto probably should have had multiple points taken away. And as anybody who knows even the most basic things about boxing would understand that you can't call a knockdown and then call it a foul at the same time. It makes absolutely no sense.
And lastly, he should have just DQ'd Fortuna when he swung at cotto after the bell. I don't care if he missed or not. It was clearly after the bell and he swung a hard shot at a defensless fighter. If that would have landed, it could have seriously damaged cotto. You just can't do that. It was insane that Fortuna even did that. A point deduction was not enough of a punishment for that.
Anyways, I honestly feel like that ref had never seen a boxing match in his life. It seemed as if the ref had read the boxing rule book once and semi understood the rules of boxing but had no idea how to ref a fight. I have seen terrible refs but this guy may be the least knowledgeable about the rules.
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