Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli surfs 'Nawlins View Post
How about a red-flag system as in Football made by opposing corner......talk about killing the momentum of the fight.
Could you imagine if they had anything like this when Lou Duva was in his prime giving referees hell? Oh man.

But there's no reason that they couldn't have the timekeeper or someone be a replay official if they had to. There are a lot of people at any show of decent size who are on the commission payroll, it shouldn't be to much to ask if deemed necessary to have one stationed by a monitor just in case they needed a replay. There's no reason a referee should have to make a call on what a cut was caused by. Half the time they don't notice the cut until well after it was caused. Things like that need replay. They should also review point deductions, not give point deductions after the fact, but review them to make sure they were appropriate.

One thing though, how would replay have helped the Soto fight? The blow that Cortez saw happened. It was light but it happened. Lorenzo said he couldn't go on because of that blow...what does replay do there? Is the replay official going to tell Lorenzo that that punch didn't affect him at all? That doesn't seem right as much as I disagree with the call. It's a tough spot, but should have never come to be as Cortez should have just waved it off and ignored the punch given what was happening for the 4 rounds prior.