Quote Originally Posted by marbleheadmaui View Post
Aloha!

Needed some time away so I took it.

Here's what I saw.

1. Ortiz flagrantly risk disqualification by headbutting Mayweather

2. Referee stops the action, takes a point, and restarts the action by chopping his hand between the fighters

3. Ortiz moves to apologize to Mayweather and stops defending himself (a VERY bad idea).

4. Floyd accepts apology, steps back and lands a left hook before Ortiz's hands are up.

5. Ortiz turns to an oddly distracted Joe Cortez and still fails to defend himself.

6. Mayweather knocks him out.

Ortiz acted illegally and then committed a cardinal boxing sin, he failed to defend himself. The fighters weren't on a break, the ref had retarted the action, and just like Dempsey did against Sharkey, Mayweather took advantage of a fighter being stupid.

Classy? Nope. Legal? You betcha. Ortiz has only himself to blame. He was stupid.

Then Floyd tried to pick a fight with an eighty year old and lost the verbal fight!
What I saw was Ortiz starting to break down mentally again, flagrantly fouling as he was starting to get beaten, that plus the frustration, Ortiz was looking for a way out, Cortez said fight, and Mayweather gave him a way out.

Had Hopkins done the same thing no one would be saying anything, they'd have said "That's Hopkins." and played the woody woodpecker theme and went on with their day.