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Time for Joe Cortez to find another nickname

By Dan Rafael

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Your weekly random thoughts… • Regarding referee Joe Cortez's miserable handling of last Saturday's Humberto Soto-Francisco Lorenzo fight: He was neither fair, nor firm. Soto, who was disqualified in the fourth round for landing a grazing shot after Lorenzo had been knocked down for the second time, got screwed out of a knockout win, plain and simple. I watched the HBO telecast when I got home from the fight and I have to say, I have known trainer and HBO broadcaster Emanuel S ...

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