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I know this fight is old but I went back and looked at this for some reason and I gotta say that I genuinely thought that Joe Cortez was horrible. So my question to the forum is what was the perception of this fight when it occured and was there any backlash about Cortez's performance
Ray Hatton could've been ref and Ricky would still have lost, but Cortez did have a hig affect on thr fight imo. It was almost as if he has watched Hatton vs Tszyu and decided that he would dictate how Ricky could fight against PBF. He was over fussy and should've let the action go. It was a boxing match, not a tickling contest afterall.
If he did it was a smart thing to do. And a good thing. The referring in the Tszyu-Hatton fight was a fucking disgrace. Paris let Hatton do whatever he wanted. He impacted Tszyu-Hatton way more than Cortez did Mayweather-Hatton. There is no doubt Hatton doesn't win the Tszyu fight if not for his tag team partner Paris