Worst performances by refs in recent yrs. Discuss

Cortez jumping between them for the first 4 rounds for absolutely no reason...

Mayweather deliberately turned his back after fouling Hatton..Cortez takes a point off Hatton for HITTING THE TOP ROPE. Put that pipe away:nut

 

that was the fight that immediately sprung to mind.. When the fight started i thought ..mmmm the referee is a bit strict, but when Reid threw a right hand at Ottke and was told not to.. The referee clenched his fist and pointed to it and signalled NO by waving the index finger of his other hand like a windsheild wiper , i thought .. WHAT !!!

He began and continued in the same vein.. Ottke had the fight sewn up.. Reid couldn't throw anything without the referee telling him off.. Ottke had just been awarded the win right there..

 

They were both getting away with **** the whole night.

Hatton blatently went after the back of Mayweathers head. He had time to stop the punch but he knew what he was doing, thats why the point was taken.

 

Right. But why just penalize one guy for his fouls, but let the other guy get away with breaking rules?

 

The ref in Juan Coggi-Eder Gonzalez I tops all of these, except maybe for Ottke-Reid (I haven't seen that one).

 

What Im saying is.. let me try to explain this on how I see it.


Both fighters were fouling together, small fouls, nothing serious. Holding and hitting. Elbows (it was a rough fight and Hatton was trying to hold and hit and this is going to happen), Hatton leading with his head to get at Floyd. Etc etc.

All of these were small fouls each fighter was doing over and over. To take a point he would have to do it against both fighters thus making taking a point away pointless. (Taking a point from both does nothing)

But once one of them went to the extreme like Hatton did. By blatently swinging at the back of his head the point was taken. Hatton hit Floyd in the back of the head later in the fight but didn't have a point taken because he didn't purposely do it.

Basically both fighters should of have points taken away. But like I said BOTH of them would of had it, since both were heavily doing it. Canceling each other out.

 

OH MY GOD.

If you think Cortez reffing the Mayeather-Hatton bout is one of the worst performaces by a ref in recent years, then you either a) Just started watching boxing in THIS year, or b) Don't know what a ref is supposed to do in the ring.

 

Both man were fouling and using dirty tactics. Hatton was the one that got a point takeb away. I don't think it was that much of a big deal because the fight didn't go to the scorecards anyway. If it was close and went the distance then that would have sucked. Also, Floyd was a little bit slicker with his fouling as well.

 

The ref is supposed to make sure that the rules are followed. Or did that change?

 

100% Robin Reid - Sven Ottke.

That was cringeworthy.

 

Read the post properly son. My objections against Cortez are not just his poor performance 2 weeks ago but also based on his post fight statement and comparing the previous Hatton fight.

How old are you out of interest?

 

If we are talking the past 4 or 5 years, easily Jorge Alonso in the Lacy-Reid fight. Terrible job...

He stepped in to break a clinch, the two fighters took a step back and Lacy hit Reid with a right hand. Alonso counted it as a knockdown even though Lacy looped his right hand around him to hit Reid.

And he was going crazy taking points away from Reid for holding when in actuality, he was just trying to get some time to recover and survive. It wasn't dramatic at all.


In the past 10-15 years, there have been others. Mercante Jr with Hurtado and Whitaker comes to mind.

 

:yep

That fight was a joke.

 

I've yet to see this fight, but I hear it was absolutely terrible.

But was it really THAT bad?:yikes

 

You know what you're right Bill Poster. i just saw you mention Cortez and assumed you were coming up with the same complaints that a LOT of other people on this forum are voicing.

It seems like so many people are just collecting complaints about anything pertaining to the fight. Anything to make it seem more and more like Ricky should have won, or Ricky's chances of winning were lessened by _______, or just that Floyd's performance wasn't that great,, etc etc.