Yea, Ortiz doesn't deserve any sympathy. Basically only the fans do. Horrible referring by Cortez, not even looking at the fighters as he called time in, which he did backwards, should have told the time keeper then the fighters, not vice versa.
Mayweather was using his elbows all night, which had to be annoying for Ortiz, especially as his camp brought it up constantly before the fight, but Cortez still did nothing about it.
Floyd really ruined what would have been a showpiece fight for him, that could have won over a ton of fans. He was moving forward more than normal, and having a right handed southpaw in front of him was allowing him to land straight rights all night, and it would have continued until Ortiz's corner or a doctor stopped the fight later on. He was really putting some heat on his punches, and those right hand leads would have added up quickly; he was throwing hard left hooks after jabs too, not something he normally does. Basically he could have gone some distance to show he isn't always a boring defensive fighter, but decided to take a cheap, borderline legal, yet horribly shitty way out of the fight.
Yes his asshole personality may sell tickets, but he really is an asshole, it's not all a show, plus he could have been even bigger if he wouldn't have been an asshole his whole life; there is a reason Pacquiao is a bigger draw.
Floyd is just such a strange guy, he lives in a parallel universe it seems; he just doesn't quite get it.
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