Ok, so self-centered ******* Joe Cortez calls a break and takes a point away from Stupid Victor Ortiz because of his intentional headbutt. Then he signals both fighters to resume fighting and starts stepping out of the way, while starting to look at the timekeeper. Meanwhile Ortiz has hugged and kissed Cheap Shot Floyd, apologized to him, apologized to him again and hugged him again (the latter part after Cortez' signal to resume fighting). Then he lets go of Floyd and we all know what happened after that. What is your take about Floyd's reaction?
Ortiz was trying to impose his will on Mayweather. Agresive with a head bud. Then non-agresive afterwards, but still he was trying to impose his will on him. You cant have that, so I understand Mayweather him being a p4p champ having the killer instinct that goes with it did what he had to do.
Floyd did the smart (& legal) thing. Ortiz made a huge mistake. The fault lies with (hard to believe, I know) Cortez, who signaled them to resume fighting but didn't give any verbal command. Floyd was still within his rights to throw those punches, and let's face it, there's no way Ortiz was going to win that fight no matter what. The end.
- And massive props to Floyd, in general, for taking the fight to Ortiz instead of just counterpunching all night. He really won my respect back with this performance.
What it all boils down to: What Floyd did was completely legal, and yet completely devoid of sportsmanship. If you look at things in a cold, clinical way then what Floyd did was fine. Personally, it left a bad taste in my mouth -- there was something ugly and malicious about it that had nothing to do with sport or boxing. It was an attack on someone who wasn't even looking at Floyd, and had just finished apologising. I can't support that.
I agree with everything you said apart from the part in red. Ortiz is clearly seen looking at Mayweather before the left hook landed. The punch turned his head to the left and then he started looking at Cortez until the right hand connected. But I agree.
I don't think that's fair. Imagine what it's like to be in the ring at that level. Your adrenaline is pumped, and you're in attack mode. The ref calls time in, and you're ready to fight, but your opponent wants to first tell you he's sorry about the head but. - but heck you are ready to go. Your opponent pulls back, and you attack, just like you've been trained to do. It's instinctive. Do you know how hard it would be to stop in the middle of that movement, because (EVEN THOUGH IT'S A LEGAL PUNCH) your opponent happens to look at the ref? C'mon, that's absurd. Ortiz messed up. End of story.
too little time to think inside the ring. You're in there to hurt the other person. That's why I put the blame on the Ref who was supposed to be in control of whatever goes on inside his territory.
Yea. Well, I always thought Cortez is a no good *****, so I wasn't surprised to see him contribute to the confusion.
I'd get malicious too after a bunch of intentional headbutts. I would tell him to take his apology and shove it up his ass right before I punched him after all that to be honest. **** Ortiz. If you want sportsmanship, try not intentionally fouling? His apology was as fake as he is.
Personally I think he should have rose above it, gone back to what he was doing and putting on a clinic. I think Floyd knew what he was going to do, and I think he knew he was going to hurt Ortiz by doing it (maybe not spark him out). If he had kept his cool and stopped Ortiz down the stretch then there wouldn't be this controversy. Then again, Floyd's goal does seem to be controversy so I guess he did what was needed.