Cortez ! ruined the whole fkn fight. I never noticed it the first time as I watching it at a club at a far distance, but he really ruined the fight. He didn't let Hatton fight his fight , not one bit. As soon as both fighters got in close, Cortez was in absolute hurry to break them up . Fighters are suppose to wiggle and slide their way around each other on the inside, but Cortez wanted none of it. That was the most biased piece of refereeing I've ever seen. And the other fiasco was taking 1 point away from Hatton for a punch that barely connected Floyd's head after he delibrately turned his back to Hatton. Cortez must have been paid for this ****! Cortez is the biggest **&&))!!& for letting this fight take place the way it did. He really had an agenda that night. It was very obvious.He was pissing the **** out of me to be honest.Hatton was actually fighting 2 people that night,not just one. Hatton was doing really well considering the circumstances, and had he been allowed to fight his fight, which I'm sure other referees would have done, he might well have won on points.
you need to watch ottke vs reid then! haha cortez pissed me off in this fight too & i think the fight would have went the distance as opposed to ricky losing his head a bit and rushing in and getting caught but it would have still ended in a points win for floyd. would have been a lot more fluency to the fight tho had it not been constantly interrupted...
Hatton initiated all the clinches, your not supposed to throw a punch then lunge forward and grab your opponent, Hatton does this in the majority of his fights, its down right embarssing, the urango fight is the most boring fight in history due to ricky grabbin. Thank goodness for Floyds elbow.
no. your wrong. seriously - any fighter- who s style- relies on grappling and holding- and then rabbit punching- is not a champion fighter for mine. He got away with murder against tzyu- and tzyu admirably didnt complain. But boxing shouldnt be about that- Hatton had a primitive and ugly fighting style- poorly schooled. he would drop his right when jabbing or hooking the left- and he would telegraph the left by pumpin it before he threw it. an awful fighter techinically who got by on alot of heart , grit and determinaton- which i do admire- but in terms of being the best- over someone with the refined skills of floyd?? never. even with the infighting- floyd was superior- hattons only chance was to make it an ugly brawl with 5 second clinches and all that crap. if you want that- go to mma - this is boxing- the sweet science.
Im a mega Hatton fan one of my all time fave fighters but i dont think he would have won the fight even if that peice of **** Cortez let him fight his fight, but he would have made it to a UD points defeat for sure, That probably would have done less damage to his reputation and mental state, the only people who will tell you that Cortez did a fair job will be Americans, its obvious to anybody with a pair of eyes Cortez had in his head how he would judge the fight, Hatton was doing well considering the circumstances until the point got deducted then he lost his head and went all guns blazing thus leading to his first L, But to answer your post yeah Cortez knew all along what he was doing but Hatton at best would have walked away with a clear UD loss
Floyd was doing a lot of grabbing too,a lot of time Hatton was actually getting the better of Floyd on the inside, when that happens, Cortez sees it and breaks them apart. I actually think Hatton might have won it on points. Floyd looked like he was struggling on the inside at times.
Anyone who disagrees with this is plain wrong. Evidence him doing the exact opposite in the BHop-Calzaghe fight.
Cortez didn't help Hatton, but then again Ricky got the rub of the green again Kostya in Manchester. What goes around comes around... But, honestly, it didn't matter. Floyd is just the better of the two fighters, would've found a way to win regardless.
Floyd was doing the same trick as always on the inside, using the elbow and preventing Hatton from throwing. Hatton never got his punches off inside and that's why Cortez split them up. He was getting dominated and would of lost regardless of whether Cortez didn't break them up. Simply because he wasn't doing anything on the inside anyway, and he was stumbling forward in straight lines with no head-movement as always. Floyd could pick his spots all night long. You saw what happened when Hatton really tried to get inside and Floyd check-hooked him into the corner post.
It would most likely have been a wide UD loss rather than a TKO with a good ref that night. Hatton's point deduction for **** all was the turning point, he lost his head and his composure after that. If you look again he didn't make any contact with Floyd so the point deduction was ridiculous.
Floyd was shutting him down pretty well on the inside anyway. Ricky was trying to make spots for his punches to land...but they just werent.
Hatton definitely couldn't have won, the difference between his ability and Floyds was so easy to see. However with a more neutral referee Hatton definitely would have heard the final bell and may have picked up another couple of rounds, making teh scoring a bit closer. I think if more of Hattons tactics were allowed he'd have looked more effective, landed more and would have pushed his pace (like he was doing right at the start). Would have been nice for him to get to the end.