Did Cortez "save" Khan vs Maidana

Maidana was gassing and couldn't finish him off it's as simple as that, now I have no proof that Joe Cortez didn't inject Maidana with a stamina sapping drug though so I really do hope the WBA look into that.

 

After Maidana hurt Khan badly in the 10th Cortez broke them apart for no reason. No way of telling if that "saved" Khan or not but it definitely hurt Maidana's chances of finishing him off. Maidana also lost a point in the 5th which wasn't really deserved.

Despite those things I think Khan deserved the win, but Cortez definitely harmed Maidana's chances in the fight.

 

This is pretty spot on for me.Cortez stepping and splitting them in the tenth was ridiculous.He either lets them fight or stops it there and then.He did neither which was a major failure. So, IMO, aye he saved Khan.However, for Khan to come back after that was pretty incredible.

 

I think he was referring to Cortez stepping in to protect Khan in the tenth.They were not in a clinch.I have no explanation as to why he stepped in at that point.

 

Amir just rode his luck and yea many a ref would have stopped it. Some wouldn't and cortez didn't hence Amir deserved his win just about. "Yes, Cortez saved the glass jawed fraud" is a bit of an extreme way of putting it but Khan certainly rode his luck in those latter rounds.

 

Wasn't intentional, and it missed Khan. The fact it hit Cortez shouldn't have cause him to lose a point.

 

I saw a guy on youtube who said that by breaking them up Cortez was actually doing Maidana a favour, because Maidana was landing his best shots from outside the clinch, this is actually true, when they were holding Maidana hardly landed anything, all his power shots were landed when they were seperated

 

It's been a while but no.

 

Absolutely. Had it been any other ref then Khan would have at least went down in the 10th and it would have been a different fight altogether.

If you watch the 10th round again there were 2 separate occasions where Khan attempted to hold and was unsuccessful because Maidana punched his way out of it and was lighting up Khan with hard shots. At that point when there was no holding going on, Cortez decides to break the fighters up for no reason and give Khan a much needed breather. I just watched it and this happened twice. Khan looked to be out on his feet and was getting smashed and Cortez breaks them apart for no reason.

Cortez ****ed the fight up IMO...

 

I don't know if Khan would have been KO'd, but he clearly got "in the way" and broke up the fight at essential moments of the fight. If I had been Maidana I would have pushed Cortez out of the way at one point, and if disqualfied let him explain what he was doing inbetween the fighters at that point.

 

Just rewatched, that fight could have easily been stopped and yes Cortez was a major factor in that not happening. Cortez needs to be retired.

 

dunno the answer but i just wish this dude would stop rewening all these matches....he either gets too involved not allowing the boxers to fight or he just stands their like a donut doing nothing......

 

Yes and no.

Maidana is a very dirty fighter and he was hitting behind the head a LOT. Cortez had to stop it, but there were times where one hand was free and he was letting Maidana punch inside.