Clottey was lucky the fight wasn't stopped

[bzkfn]

I agree Bilbo the ref did a great job!

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[Gandalf]

I agree Bilbo the ref did a great job!

Me 2.

Me 3.

Clottey was acting like a total clown. Writhing away like that was lame. I've injured my ankles quite badly in sports but you would never catch me wailing away on the floor in front of everybody. Sure it wasn't his ankle, and he probably knocked his knee fairly hard. But that was over the top. The fact that he was okay within 6 minutes says so too.

The ref did a decent job out there as Clottey was playing up more than a couple of times. Clottey should join the theatre, or else play for Manchester United.

[Bomp]

I agree Bilbo the ref did a great job!

Me 2.

Me 3.

Clottey was acting like a total clown. Writhing away like that was lame. I've injured my ankles quite badly in sports but you would never catch me wailing away on the floor in front of everybody. Sure it wasn't his ankle, and he probably knocked his knee fairly hard. But that was over the top. The fact that he was okay within 6 minutes says so too.

The ref did a decent job out there as Clottey was playing up more than a couple of times. Clottey should join the theatre, or else play for Manchester United.

It was a soccer roll around, quite patetic. Whenever I've been proper injured in football/rugby (broken arm and snapped ligaments in ankle) the pain is searing, but the reaction is more of an 'oh fuck, what have I done'. The writhing around is only justified for a david Busst type injury, even then I'd just expect them to be white with shock.

There was a delayed reaction to the back of the head shot in the 12th, as if to say he realised'wow that may have been a foul', and by the time the low blow landed, which may have been genuinely painful, well he'd cried wolf too much by then.

[SweetPea]

Mercante Jr. is a very solid ref. He worked the Cotto-Judah fight too and did a great job. That fight had the low blow fouls, plus Judah's rep for losing control, and Mercante kept that fight on the up-and-up.

Mercante is up there with Bayless and Smoger among the top refs.