i honestly dont now the answer but maybe some one can clear this up for me... how many fights has marlen wright bin the ref in bute fights? and he has done the same thing to pascal (stoping count unitil pascal whent back to his corner) some years back.
You're totally right about Wright exaggerating and being in Andrade's face in that 12th round. You're also totally right about him looking like a fool for such a long count but your math doesn't change the fact, that the end was correct per the real rules. The knockdown occurs with only 4 seconds left in the fight. Bute gets up within 8 seconds in real time, therefore per the rules in effect for the last and final round, whether the referee would have counted properly or for 10 minutes for that matter....it wouldn't have changed the outcome at that point. The other guilty party which makes the ref look like an idiot is the time keeper which doesn't sound the end of the round (and fight) right away, like many other places in the world would have.... At 3:02 of the video when Bute goes down (There's like 4 seconds left in the fight) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL-pK2fzWsg&feature=related[/ame]
Wright has done alot of Bute fights, though the first Andrade fight was the last he did, you'll understand why. "and he has done the same thing to pascal (stoping count unitil pascal whent back to his corner) some years back" Yeah, but Bat doesn't give a **** about that. It doesn't help him bash Bute... We are talking about the same Bat who said everywhere that Bute refused a great offer by Sauerland to fight Kessler a few weeks back, only to learn a some days later that there was never an offer from Sauerland. It's also the same Bat who says Bute is ducking everybody (although not actually naming who he is ducking), yet he doesn't care that when Bute and Froch were the 2 highest challengers for an IBF eliminator, it's not Bute that declined the fight, it was Froch.