Ok, sorry guys, but I fell asleep and only just watched this embarrasment to the sport. First of all, why would someone agree to a referee from the hometown of the fighter during a fight in this same hometown? Don't know. . .

I watched this over and over. . .

All I can say is that whoever was the timekeeper keeping the count was corrupt, but so was the ref. When the ref picked up the count, I was already a few seconds ahead of his count which was given by the timekeeper. Ok, maybe I started early. Let's assume that. But then how can the ref verbalize and show a 7 count and then tell Andrade "get back in that corner, get back in that corner" several times (even though he clearly was nowhere near the middle of the ring) only to then turn around, check with the ringside timekeeper and resume the count at 8!!! There were clearly 3-4 seconds gone as he told Andrade to get back. The count was clearly past 10 by the time the ref came back. This was so, so obviously a fix in the works that it was embarrassing to me as a sports fan, let alone boxing. Bute should be embarrassed too.