Your weekly random thoughts…
• Regarding referee
Joe Cortez's miserable handling of last Saturday's
Humberto Soto-
Francisco Lorenzo fight: He was neither fair, nor firm.
Soto, who was disqualified in the fourth round for landing a grazing shot after Lorenzo had been knocked down for the second time, got screwed out of a knockout win, plain and simple. I watched the HBO telecast when I got home from the fight and I have to say, I have known trainer and HBO broadcaster
Emanuel Steward for a long time and I've never seen him quite as worked up as he was over Cortez's heinous disqualification ruling. You could feel Steward's rage through the TV. It's pretty much the way I felt at ringside. It was an utter miscarriage of justice. Soto shouldn't give Lorenzo a rematch either. What's the point?
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