~ A Message to Referee Marlon B. Wright ~ (Ref. for Andrade-Bute)

[Kev]

Born in Mexico, resides in California, and trains in Montreal (his trainers Otis and Howard Grant, are from Montreal)

He sounds about as Canadian as Bute then, maybe it wasn't hometown judging after all.


I do agree about the controversy as well. There's no doubt Bute managed to get to his feet at 10, although the ref hadn't even started counting then, but whether he could have stayed upright for the remaining 10 seconds is debatable.

It's the closest I've ever seen anyone almost come to losing it in the last seconds though and still hanging on barely.

It actually finished in a similar way to Vazquez Marquez 3 but Andrade was waaaaaaaaay behind on the scorecards so he needed him to stay down.

Brilliant final round though.

does anyone think Andrade should be kicking himself for not stepping it up earlier though?

I mean the way he tore through him in the 12th makes you think he really should have taken him out of there a couple rounds earlier.

I just watched the clip of the last round 24 seconds went by exactly Bilbo.

Yeah it was terrible. I think it was bad for Bute too. I mean he's on his feet 9 seconds after being dropped. I can't say he's up at 9 becuase the judge isn't even counting in that time but Bute himself did no wrong.

He may have survived, there were about 3 seconds left, if he managed to grab and hold Andrade as he came back in he'd have heard the final bell.

Now he will have to put up with everyone saying he was KO'd.

It was a tough way for the fight to end for both guys