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Entries tagged with "Joe+Cortez":

• Tyson/Stallone Do Canastota – May 26th, 2011

  
  
  

• Patterson Was Great in Buffalo – June 19th, 2011

  Don Patterson has the boxing "virus" and there is no doubt about it. The "virus" started when he was eight years old...
  
  

• Mayweather Responds with Cold Shot – September 17th, 2011

  Ortiz forgot the first dictum of boxing, one that most referees pronounce during the instructions, to wit: “Protect yourself at all times"...
  
  

• Floyd's Cheap Shot KO Victory – September 17th, 2011

  The great Floyd Mayweather was outclassing Victor Ortiz, but resorted to classlessness when it mattered least...
  
  

• Mayweather-Ortiz Post-Fight Analysis – September 19th, 2011

  Ortiz’s inexplicable lack of focus was shocking to watch—but was overshadowed by the incompetence of Joe Cortez, who ultimately lost control of the fight...
  
  

• Fair or Foul: Mayweather vs. Ortiz – September 20th, 2011

  Robert Ecksel, Editor-in-Chief of Boxing.com, spoke with Rick Strom of TYT Sports about Saturday’s PPV fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas between Floyd “Money” Mayweather and “Vicious” Victor Ortiz. The end result of the fight for Ortiz's WBC welterweight title is still sending shock waves through boxing and beyond. One camp says the knockout was within the rules, which it was, and tells those that question Mayweather's actions to man up and stop their whining. The other camp talks about standards and good sportsmanship, and worries about boxing regressing back to the barbarity from which it came. This may be a case where two rights don't make a wrong. Or it may be a case where a sport, even a sport as inherently violent as boxing, has lost its way, and all the "Money" in the world won't help it find its way back...
  
  

• Not Fair, Not Firm: Joe Cortez Blows It – September 20th, 2011

  "I’m fair but I’m firm." It’s a particularly ironic signature when looked at through the lens of his most recent poor performance...
  
  

• Lederman on Floyd Mayweather – September 20th, 2011

  
  
  

• Mayweather Bellwether – September 25th, 2011

  Such conduct by contestants in any other professional sport would have been subject to immediate and effective scrutiny and review by its commissioner...
  
  

• Joe Masterleo Responds to Shaft – September 26th, 2011

  
  
  

• Fair, Firm, and Unemployed – September 30th, 2011

  
  
  

• Roach and Manny Agree to Disagree – October 10th, 2011

  
  
  

• Does the Referee Pool Need New Blood? – December 11th, 2011

  Perhaps referees like Italian Massimo Barrovecchio and Panamanian Hector Afu can be part of a seminar for new and/or aspiring amateur referees...
  
  

• Steve Smoger: Master of an Art Form – December 25th, 2011

  Smoger, the real article, speaks for itself, and by action, for himself. There is no need to draw attention...
  
  

• When a Boxing Historian Struggled to Maintain His Interest – January 7th, 2012

  That kind of special "leave it all in the ring" style is now the exception and certainly not the rule...
  
  

• The Jackal Si, Ramos No – January 21st, 2012

  Rigondeaux knew he had his man hurt and went for the jugular. Ramos retreated to his corner with The Jackal in hot pursuit...
  
  

• My Biased Case for Miguel Cotto – February 8th, 2012

  I’ll put on my biased glasses and root for quiet wisdom to stifle brash ego, for confidence to trump arrogance...
  
  

• First Round KOs – March 21st, 2012

  Here's a look at some of the most significant early KOs ever to grace the sometimes graceless heavyweight division…
  
  

• Mayweather-Cotto Face Off—Sans Controversy – April 29th, 2012

  Cotto’s signature stoic disposition may be impenetrable, even when matched up against one of the sport’s greatest performers both in and out of the ring…
  
  

• Lamont Goes on the Offensive – April 12th, 2012