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

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Bute could never have taken 2 steps forward after an 8 count.

Going back to JCC Taylor, the ref (God bless Richard Steele) asked Taylor if he was ok... he didn't respond... had Taylor responded, he woudl have told him to take a couple steps forward. Had he done that he would have won the fight. Unfortunately fro him, he was staring at his corner wondering why they were in hysterics.

Bute would not have been able to do either of these. If this is a sanctioned title fight (which it is); I think there should be an appeal made to change it to a NC. THAT is how up in arms I am about this.

Bute walked to his corner fine after the fight, so how couldn't he have taken 2 steps forward ? plus Taylor did actually respond to Steele, he nodded his head then looked at his corner and by the time he looked back. The fight was over because Steele gave Taylor no chance to respond.

Plus Steele broke the rules by not checking Chavez was in the neutral corner, when he clearly wasn't. Plus his count was super quick like he was trying to count Taylor out which was ridiculous. Its obvious he was favoring Chavez like he had favored over Don King fighters in the past.

Im not saying the ref in the Bute fight wasn't favoring Bute, but he didn't actually break any rules to my knowledge. And the ref making sure Andrade is in the neutral corner may sound ridiculous, to everyone else but thats in the rules and he didn't break any rules by doing so. Andrade slightly walked out of his corner so he has to take some blame for that.

Im not saying it was right for the ref to tell off Andrade like that, because Andrade was in the neutral corner although he slightly walked out of the neutral corner. But this is all irrelvant because the time in the round was over, so Andrade had no chance to finish Bute. And had the ref stopped the fight with no time left in the fight that would of been a bigger robbery than Taylor vs Chavez IMO. I still think this controversy is being overrated, when i see this thread i was expecting one of the biggest crimes ever in boxing history.

But when i watched the fight myself, i was actually shocked because i didn't see anything bad. Other than the ref telling off Andrade about not being in the neutral corner, but that was irrelvant because the time in the fight was over.