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joe "i'm fair but i'm firm" cortez retired.

you're supposed to note milestones like this.

did you know he was close to gaspar ortega? i recall sitting there with my old man watching ortega on the old friday night fights with dan dunphy, brought to you by gilette blue blades.

Cortez was one of the shittiest refs working and didn't deserve mention when he took himself out of the game.

He's a fucking joke, he's not fair, he's not firm, he's a fucking idiot.

Fuck Joe Cortez.

jezuz man, did you just get raped with a pineapple?

He was terrible.

Steve Smoger knows what he's doing. The guy, whose name I'm blanking on at the moment, who refereed the Alvarado-Rios fight on Saturday is good.

There are a lot of really good referees who know what they're doing.

He was the Barack Obama of refs.

Later Joe you fuckwad

On a somewhat related note, John L Sullivan's birthday was the other day...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Sullivan

baffled wrote:He was terrible.

Steve Smoger knows what he's doing. The guy, whose name I'm blanking on at the moment, who refereed the Alvarado-Rios fight on Saturday is good.

I actually commented to the Missus on the ref's good footwork and positioning during the Alvrado-Rios fight. Smoger will let guys take a little bit too much punishment sometimes, plus I can't watch the dude ref a fight without thinking of the clip where he's tenderly telling Lou Savarese to "take your time, Big Louie" after a knockdown. I used to like Jim Santa and Arthur Mercante Sr. back in the day.

losabio wrote:

baffled wrote:He was terrible.

Steve Smoger knows what he's doing. The guy, whose name I'm blanking on at the moment, who refereed the Alvarado-Rios fight on Saturday is good.

I actually commented to the Missus on the ref's good footwork and positioning during the Alvrado-Rios fight. Smoger will let guys take a little bit too much punishment sometimes, plus I can't watch the dude ref a fight without thinking of the clip where he's tenderly telling Lou Savarese to "take your time, Big Louie" after a knockdown. I used to like Jim Santa and Arthur Mercante Sr. back in the day.

A legendary moment. Smoger's got a rep as a ref who will force you to stop your opponent instead of just jumping in to keep someone down.

Mercante Sr is as much a legend as a ref can be. His kid isn't a bad ref either. Even when he misses things, I think that he's still got good control of what's going on in the ring.

Cortez never had control, the fucking hack.

I still remember when James Kirkland got dropped three times by that Japanese fighter a while back. He took a flash knockdown on the last one and Cortez pushed him back on the ground when he tried to get up.


dmw, you son of a bitch.

You knew I would go off one way or another, and now I'm all pissed off.