Quote Originally Posted by dasamm
I agree with Danny_G

I remember thinking the ref did a great job. The fight could've potentially got out of control but he kept calm and laid down the rules.

The stoppage was perfect time as well.

He was just letting zab know he didn't want to see him take anymore of a beating... kind of like "man to man you have had enough"

No way was zab going to strangle him ...after hearing "I love you"

What I don't like is apparently Judah himself is being critical of the ref now...he looked very relieved when the fight was stopped and even gave mercante a pat on the back when he stopped it.

Is Judah really being that critical? I have not seen any verified reports of it, but I havent looked.

Despite giving credit to Cotto, Judah also had his share of excuses: "I got hit with two hard low blows. It did a lot to me. I got a lot of swelling on the back of my head." He also complained about referee Arthur Mercante Jr., who by most ringside accounts, did an excellent job at maintaining control of the fight under difficult circumstances: "[After going down from the second low blow] he told me to get up because 'you can't win the fight on the ground.'"

Zab also felt the referee's actions favored Cotto's style: "Every time I would tie him up on the inside, I just kept hearing my name and I was frustrated." He continued, "[The ref would say,] "Stop grabbing Zab, I'm gonna take a point." He also pointed to the mysterious disappearance of some of Team Judah's equipment: "Someone came to the corner and stole my endswell and my team bucket with my endswell so we had no endswell to rub on the cut."

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If you watch the fight. The endswell is around the neck of one of the cornermen.
The endswell is visible throught the entire fight except the third.
They were passing the endsell back and forth and one of those fat bastards lost it.
The bucket was not stolen like Judah claims either.
I saw the endswell again in the later rounds so Zab is so full of shiet his teeth are brown.