This crap needs to be laid to rest...
I don't buy into this... Cortez was pretty shocking but I don't think that getting rid of him would have changed shit, it was fairly competative and then Hatton tired and slowed down after 5-6 rounds.
Forget Joe Cortez, if you could travel back in time and either
a) Change the ref
b) stop Hatton from buying into his own hype so much that cheese pasties and 12 pints a day become part of his off season diet
Then go for option B if you wanted to see Ricky win... just maybe he might have had the stamina to perform for more than half of the fight with out slowing down so much that Mayweather can pick you apart and your diminished conditioning can wipeout your punch resistance...
It's not like Hatton couldn't perform at his best and lost a disputed or close desicion... he couldn't hang in there... he was fucked and what ever Cortez didn't pick up on wasn't grand enough to severly drain Hatton to the point that he was at... he let himself down.
At no point did he look like he had the potential to put Floyd away and that he just wasn't allowed to... I don't buy that just because he was able to literally wrestle an old Tyszu into submission that he could of stopped Floyd, whether he had no Joe Cortez's in the ring or ten Mickey Vanns in the ring.
It's time to move on mate...![]()
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