Controversy is swirling over this weekend’s boxing match at the MGM Grand. Floyd Mayweather junior claimed the knockout and the win, but how he did it has many crying foul!

What was shaping up as a good fight, was destroyed by a chain of events that left fight fans shaking their heads or completely enraged at the ending of the Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz fight.

After a headbutt by Ortiz, the fight was stopped and eventually re-started by one of the fighters. Floyd Mayweather took advantage of Ortiz’s naivety and knocked him silly when his hands were down. Many are blaming referee Joe Cortez for losing control of the fight, including UFC president Dana White. White tweeted:

“Ref never sent a fighter to a neutral corner to take a point. Especially after a intentional head butt! That’s why u have a ref!!!!”

White didn’t choose sides between Mayweather and Ortiz, he blasted Cortez.

“You can’t blame the fighters. The ref is in there to stop that [expletive] from happening! That is the worst ref’n I have ever seen in boxing EVER.”

In his own sport, White has never been shy about going after judges or referees.

Frankly, everyone in the ring had a part in this mess, but clearly Cortez failed to do his job. The shocked look on his face says it all.

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