By Robert Coster
Top lightweight contender and former world champion Javier Fortuna is clamoring for a rematch with Joseph “Jo Jo” Diaz.
Fortuna’s manager Cesar Mercedes had this to say to Fightnews.com®: “Two elements affected the fight. First, Javier hurt his right hand in the fourth round. Then, the scoring was really off base. One judge gave Javier only two rounds. What fight was he looking at for heaven’s sake?”
Fortuna, on his part, commented “I have nothing but respect for Jo Jo, an excellent boxer and an excellent person. However, the boxstat shows that I connected more punches. We boxers work hard to step into that ring – it’s a lot of sacrifice. Give us our due. To give me two rounds in a fight like this hurts me more than any of Jo-Jo’s punches.”
Stupid. Protest all you want but in the end all boxing is an opinion. Just say it was a bad decision you think you won and move on. No way diaz would have a rematch it doesn’t make sense he will be looking for bigger fights
Actually, that 3rd judge gave you 3 rounds…….
What good does it do to single out 1 judge because of their score? Even if that judge had given Fortuna 1 or 2 or rounds, it still would have been an UNANIMOUS decision…..The winner won!
The rounds were close and they are usually going to the aggressor. The right guy won if they gave him 2 rounds or 4. Sounds like he’s sour he didnt get the credit he thought he deserved. Maybe next time train to fight more aggressive to take it out the judges hands. You made it a good close fight but wasn’t winning the rounds Fortuna.
Hopefully if it’s a close fight won by Castaño against Charlo then Castaño will get the decision win. Not like Jojo Diaz vs Javier Fortuna. I think Diaz did enough to win it but come on folks it was horrible judging because guys like Fortuna from small countries like Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Namibia, Kenya, Ghana, Jamaica, Bahamas always get the decision taken away from them when they fight bigger name boxers from larger countries like the United States, Russia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Japan. I mean it never goes there way and those fighters could not have possibly lost every close fight. Boxing is a corrupt sport filled with nationalism and racism in order for corrupt sanctioning bodies to make the biggest paydays possible. Boxers that actually win a lot and win world championships from those countries are truly great because every time they fight the whole deck is stacked against them.
The problem with your argument is that one of the judges LIVES in the Dominican Republic and his family is Dominican…….
Yeah the judge is from Dominican republic. But it’s just a front. If he wants another assignment he knows who to vote for. You have no understanding of the business.
KP, I don’t normally respond to these comments but I think I DO know the business. I WAS THE THIRD JUDGE. In retrospect, I could have possibly given him the 3rd or 8th round because they were the closest. But My decision for those rounds were because of “Quality of punches” plus EFFECTIVE aggression, not quantity…..1 more round the other way would have made my score the same as the other judges, which means Fortuna still would have lost a unanimous decision……
Michael Tate
Then how would you explain Puerto Rico, they seem to get their fair share of deserved decisions and is smaller than most if not all the countries you mentioned?
I don’t think it is so much nationalism or racism as it is judging for the guy that’s the bigger name. You pretty much know the B-side in a fight has to really dominate to win a decision. I can pretty much tell you before the fight even starts which guy is gonna get the benefit of the doubt.
The best argument they can make is that one “element” contributed to the other. Fortuna is claimed to be hurt. Fact-fighters get hurt in fights. Fact-getting hurt doesn’t grant you the “do-over”.
The best way to not lose a fight is to not get hurt. But it happens. Loma had to make the best of it vs Teofimo, but he had to take that L. It isn’t right sometimes that 1 judge may give a score wider than reality, but Fortuna wasn’t the aggresor, and may of his punches “landed” hit mostly glove/were blocked. Jo Jo did what he was supposed to, landed clean shots at a higher %, and was the aggressor. Fortuna should only get a rematch if that’s what Jo Jo wants.
The boxstat proves fortuna may have thrown a lot more “feints” that hit gloves, not true connects.
I think Fortuna is angry about losing his opportunity he had with Ryan Garcia. That opportunity will now likely go to Jo Jo.
Fortuna should stop the complaining and adjust his offensive game to minimize losing close rounds. As for Fortuna’s right hand excuse…blah blah y mas blah. I am 100% sure Fortuna’s right hand excuse would have never surfaced through victory.
Typical Fortuna reaction. Yes he’s a tough, game fighter, but he’s also a sore loser and a whinny little B! Funny how he found a way out of the Granados fight and NEVER requested a rematch?! That’s because he was getting starched!!
I agree Fortuna won more rounds than the judges give him credit for. But is understandable. Jo Jo Diaz is the homeboy, the local fighter. There always gonna be home cooking in LA.
Nothing to protest in this one.. Sorry..