Mayweather defends Joe Cortez

Referee Joe Cortez called Floyd Mayweather did not do anything wrong when Victor Ortiz knocked in the title race WBC welterweight world champion, on Saturday (Sunday AM).

Cortez is considered slow and unresponsive when Mayweather hit anything Ortiz twice in the fourth round. Cortez is also considered not witness the incident as being consulted by the judge about cutting the value of Ortiz.

Whereas, before, Cortez quickly respond to complaints from Mayweather, who called Ortiz has transgressed by menandukkan head toward the U.S. boxer's face.

The audience that comes at the MGM Hotel and Casino directly ridiculed when Cortez actually did a count and then decide Mayweather knockouts.

Cortez said he `had invited the two boxers fight again shortly after cutting the value of Ortiz. "The boxer must always keep himself. Mayweather did not do anything wrong," Cortez said after the fight.

After the resignation of Richard Steele and Mills Lane, Cortez is considered as the most experienced referee in the boxing ring. Born in New York in 1945, Cortez spent his childhood in Puerto Rico.

After a career as a boxer, Cortez began to lead as the referee in the 1970s. Cortez had led the battle of the great boxers like Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Oscar De la Hoya and Julio Cesar Chavez.

Has appeared in movies with Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, Cortez entered the boxing Hall of Fame in 2011 with Mike Tyson, Julio Cesar Chavez, and Kostya Tszyu.