Quote Originally Posted by generalbulldog View Post
I shouldn't have said all Brits, because there are great posters here such as Skel and even Hattonthehomo along with a few others, but the excuse used by many of Hatton's countrymen are that Joe Cortez was the reason why Hatton lost and Mayweather "cheated" along with using elbows or something like that. Then the Hatton/Pacquiao fight was that Pacquiao "cheated" by weight draining Hatton, although the fight wasn't a catchweight but at the 140 pound limit where Hatton was king, then the excuse it was Pacquiao was on drugs.

Excuses, excuses, and excuses.
Well to be honest the fans of the WBA title holder already have a list of excuses when it comes to Wladimir and oddly enough if they are really that bothered by Wlad holding (which he really hasn't done all that much of since the first Sam Peter fight) then Joe Cortez would be the referee they would want in the ring as the main argument with him in the Hatton-Mayweather fight wasn't that he allowed Floyd to use his elbows (that's revisionist history from ono and furthermore it should be expected from the style Floyd uses, meaning Hatton should have trained for it) it was that Cortez broke up the clinches too quickly and Hatton never got to maul Floyd like he mauled Kostya Tszyu.

That being said who would you guys be satisfied with as ref of this fight (should it actually happen this time)?