had mayweather-hatton had NOT of been reffed by cortez.....

[HattonTheHammer]

Mayweather whooped Hatton ASS!! end of in round 1 Floyd stumbled he werent hurt and yes Cortez was abit harsh at times but as he says he is fair but he is firm. The Mayweather camp had highlighted the hook and hold tactics of Hatton and why shouldnt Hatton get told about it without looking at the scorecards i think it was 98-92 Floyd before the KO so no Hatton werent going to win if Hatton was a better fighter he would have had a plan B and fought from distance but he couldnt because he would get picked off easier. I remember Hatton saying before the fight if he stands toe to toe with me he's gunna get eaten well Floyd did and he was far better at rough house tactics than Hatton and in my mind this was the fight that finished Hatton he took to many clean hard shots over 10 rounds and Pacquiao got the scraps that were left. I know your a massive Hatton fan but he got beat by the better fighter one of the best fighters of all time.

jesus even the biggest floyd nuthuggers this site has to offer will tell you cortez went out of his way to punish hatton at every opportunity that night

every single time it was hatton trying to instigate the fight on the inside and floyd grabbing at the 1st opportunity. In the UK you would be formally warned straight away that by constantly grabbing your opponent you are stopping the flow of the contest and eventually you`d be thrown out of there.

I held up my hands up after the fight and admitted ricky took a beating by a far superior fighter who was simply too quick and too awkward for ricky. But back to my original question. Cortez allowed hatton to get away with everything he didnt allow not 5months earlier when he fought castillo. What exactly happened within those 5months for joe cortez to throw away a lifetime of his own boxing oks and no-nos and completely role reverse the whole situation.

i had hatton only winning 3 of the rounds before the KO so dont have any complaints about the loss. But it was clear for all to see hatton dug his own grave on the back of his frustrations at how the fight was being reffed and the wrongful point deduction ultimately led to his downfall

So HATTONTHEHAMMER do u honestly think Cortez's refereeing display was more biased than Dave Parris's in the Tzsyu fight?

Dave Parris has employed the same ethos all his career

Had that of been O`connell, vann or any other british ref that would of been the same outcome. Hatton did NOTHING illegal in that fight and kostya simply got beat by a man who was far superior at what he was doing.

Yes had that fight of been in a bigger ring somewhere in melbourne there may have been a different result due to the fact different board of controls read from different textbooks. But it wasnt and despite the complaints hatton won a fair and square fight against a ring legend.

Entirely different story to what went down in vegas. Cortez did everything possible to ensure hatton didnt walk away as victor that night.

• the endless warnings for holding on
• endless occasions being told to keep his punches up
• getting warned between virtually every round about his conduct
• point deduction for hitting floyd in the back when it was floyd who blatantly dived under the ropes
• failure to spot at least a dozen floyd forearms to the face
• allowing mayweather to hold at every opportunity
• asking hatton at the end of the 8th if he`d like to stop the fight despite ricky being of perfect mind
• even at one point telling ricky he`d deduct a point unless he stopped talking(actually floyd as well which made it even more ridiculous)

Call me bitter but cortez robbed us of a fair fight