The 3rd man in the ring???

Kenny Bayless

 

He will be the most important man in the ring other than the two fighters.

 

I don't know about "playing" to a fighter.

He's usually one of the top refs in boxing.

He did allow a lot of holding in Mosley-Vargas 2. If he's lenient on holding tomorrow, that favors Hatton.

 

You never know he could come down with flu and not be able 2 ref,CORTEZ could maybe step in.

 

Bayless is a pretty fair ref.

As per Cortez stepping in, Usually when it comes to these sorts of things...I BELIEVE the top alternate ref (aka the guy who refs the semi main) will step in and ref the main.

I think whoever refs Soto-Gaudet would handle the top fight.

 

Bayless is a good ref.

 

I hate cortez. Anybody watching that Hatton - Floyd fight could see that him stopping Hatton getting close played right into Floyds gameplan. I am not saying he would of won, but still...

 

Bayless is one of the best referees out there, there's nothing to worry about in my opinion.

 

Well the word on Bayless is pretty positive. Joe Cortez. Man what a cheat that guy is

 

Yeah Cortez is a cheat but the referee during Tszyu/Hatton isn't mentioned by the desperate/delusional ones for obvious reasons. That fight was a circus due to extremely poor refereeing to the point where it was OBVIOUS the referee is MAKING the fight the way it is by allowing endless illegal tactics to go through the entire night. Of course we won't see enough comments from the likes of you regarding that but you will mention it for the Mayweather fight because Hatton got knocked out. Even in hating at least TRY to be objective even when in denial. ANY normal boxing fan or even a boxer laughed hard at how ridiculous that fight was, even none boxing fans saw it as a fiasco with the stuff Hatton was allowed to pull off from start to finish.

Fact is Mayweather's style had a lot to do with Hatton's defeat, can't really say the same for the Tszyu fight when Hatton didn't really apply a certain style more than cheating tactics and still it was a close fight.

 

Yeah Dave Parris and Joe Cortez sleep in the same bed as one would say.