I am a true boxing fan and have been watching the sport with my family since the Chavez Era. That was a beautiful time period with fantastic and amazing classic boxing fights. I got more into boxing when the rise of Morales/Barrera/Marquez came about and were the main challengers to a young Pacquaio. I thought boxing was real until last nights fight between Ortiz & Mayweather.
That fight had "fixed" written all over it when it started with the head-butt and ended with Mayweather bashing Merchant. This fight reminded me of WWE or any wrestling main event, where the Ref gets "distracted" by someone and then the "bad" wrestler does a cheap shot (in that case, Mayweather to Ortiz) to the other opponent. I know it was legal and i've seen in the replay when the Cortez says "let's go". What i don't understand is why after Cortez allowed the fight to resume, right after he started talking to the judges/other officials and didn't focus his attention to the fighters like a Ref should do. When i was growing up and something like this occurred, the ref will separate the fighters and deduct the point to the fighter, brings the fighters to the middle of the ring and backs them up, and says "Fight". That is what a normal ref would do.
This fight was just for the money and i believe Ortiz sold himself out for the Money. Why is it that he is happy after he lost his belt? Also in my time watching Ortiz as a fighter, he was never the person to do such a dirty foul. Lastly, it seems like if the Mayweather cheap shots did not hurt him at all. He took 2x the power in the Berto & Maidana fight and got up pretty quickly. Just makes me wonder and leaves me in disappointment.
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