Joe Cortez the night of Ortiz Mayweather. Give him a break

Chibuku · Sep 23, 2011

Linkin the Lip. said: ↑

This must be old news, i only just found out but damn i didn't know Joe COrtez mother died the same night as the fight ?

I feel sorry for Cortez, he gets so much hate but after thinking a lot about it that was one difficult event he had to control. Easy for everyone to jump on his case about his decisions but he had split seconds to make his decisions with millions of people watching while you and i sit here comfortable at home saying how idiotic he is and how we would have done it.

Trying to control Mayweather and Ortiz, trying to stop them from throwing elbows and headbutts without getting involved too much because everyone bashes him for being to involved in Mayweather Hatton and 'not letting Hatton fight his fight', then Ortiz fouls so blatantly that Cortez has to take off a point....everything is hectic...Mayweathers visibly pissed off...Ortiz knows hes wrong and is trying to apologise..Cortez trying to keep everything in order..tries to resume teh fight...remembers about the time keeper...quickly tries to patch that up, looks back and Ortiz is on the floor KTFO.

Thats a lot of stress for anyone and i can fully understand why he couldn't make perfect calls. I think he did the best he could and it would be difficult to do everything perfectly on such a big stage with 2 drama queens on your best day....much less the day your mother has died.

So give this guy a break. Not many people can do what he does.
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Joe explained clearly why he did what he did.It's unfortunate he couldnt see Ortiz's earlier headbutts otherwise he would have disqualified Ortiz by the 3rd round.Hope he gets peace after such bad news about his mom

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