Yeah, it sucks. I had to go to the Hutch Juco fball game tonight and hurried home to find a stream. Took only a minute and I saw only the replay of the end. It kind of reeks of a fix too. Pretty lame, I really like boxing as a pure sport but it is hard to get into these days.
People always look for fixed boxing matches. You can claim that any fight is fixed, but this is just too blatant for me to believe it. I think it's just a case of Ortiz being Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!), nothing more.
most likely, watching this gif it leads me to believe that the fight may have been on. Floyd went in for the tap and to fight. Ortiz surprised him by going in for the embrace. Floyd was in fighting position after the tap. Ortiz looked to the ref for a signal to fight.
The only question was whether or not the ref had already given the signal to fight. If he had, game on. If not, should have been a penalty and a point for Ortiz, allow a recovery and then fight on. The fact that the referee wasn't looking is pretty odd.
