Was the deck stacked against Hatton?

It was a great strategy by Floyd, no doubt. I give him props for doing it with success. I think it was critical to him winning the fight. If he hadn't done it, he would have eaten a lot more punches, especially to the body, IMO.

Floyd fights in spurts, Hatton fights full-out the whole round, every round. If you fight like PBF does, you need time to 're-set' your stance, etc. By his holding Hatton, it let him do it.

I'm not calling foul, I thought it was smart. And Cortez let him do it (which was odd, but whatever).

 

The fighters settled it in the ring which is the good thing.

....but had the fight went the distance, I would have been very discontent with the official scoring......it told me that Hatton only way of winning was by KO!

For two judges to give Hatton only one freaking round is a complete disgrace!

.....and dont let me get started with ref Cortez.....he should change his motto that says fair but firm, because he was indecisive and clueless to what he was doing.

I thought both fighters took turns initiating clinches trying to get the better spot....but there were intances in the early rounds where Hatton plowed into Mayweather with punches, and becuase there had been clinches previously, Cortez would interrupt the action in the middle of a Hatton throwing punches and driving Mayweather to the ropes.

I dont think Cortez was trying to be biased or favoring any particular fighter.....but he was clueless up till the very end when it looked like he had stepped in to stop the fight, and then looked like he changed his mind.....only to wave it off again after he saw Hatton crashing to the canvas!

FIghts like these are always difficult to officiate, but that was a horrific job Joe Cortez did of refereeing!

Again, luckily the fighers themselves settled it without it having to go to the cards!

 

Only in the sense that Floyd is a superior fighter and Hatton can never beat him.

 

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Are you ****IN INSANE?? What fight were you watching??? Hatton was the one doing all the ****in holding and he was hitting Mayweather behind the ****in head you moron. Even before Mayweather turned he got hit in the head thats why he turned like that then Ricky tryed to hit him again behind the head. Go watch the ****in replay you douchebag

 

It was a ****ing sham. Ricky had no shot at getting anything going with this ass clown as a referee. He was trying to make himself the star of the show instead of the boxers. And don't even get me started on the judges. :roll:

 

exactly people want to act like PBF was holding when we all know thats what hatton does

 

PBF won by TKO deal with it.:deal

 

you people do realize hatton landed in single digits in every rd and in 1 of those rds he landed 0 punches..so in no way shape or form was the fight close...8-1 PBF at the time of the KD

 

I love it. I want that pic for my avatar.:yep

 

Quit crying *****!:| :| :| :|

 

For all the folks who are about to complain that the ref didn't let Ricky fight his fight, or that PBF was dirty with his elbows and forearms, I'll quote the words of Hatton's fans after the Tzyu fight: "This ain't a tickling contest" and "Tzyu(or in this case Hatton) hasn't complained, niether should you"

 

There is no such thing as "having to hold" plus it would make no sense for Cortez to take a point away from floyd for holding after hatton's camp pleaded with im in the locker room to allow that kind of **** from Hatton.

A punch to the back of the head is illegal under any circumstance. If your opponents back is turned that does not give you the green light to take a shot at the bck of his head. It was an intentional foul and the point deduction was justifed. Besides at the end of the day points did not matter.

IN order for there to be a knockdown a punch has to land. Floyd slipped into the ropes there was no punch landed that knocked him into the ropes. Besides as a I said before a 10-8 would have done Ricky no good since the scores amounted to jack ****.