We may have just witnessed a fixed fight between Mayerweather and Ortiz...

The fight just ended: Mayerweather KO 4 directly after a headbutt penalty on Ortiz.

But as I'm watching it, it's clear that the referee has stepped back to restart the action, but is not looking at the two fighters as Ortiz, clearly in the sights and not even trying to protect himself, takes a two-punch combination from Floyd and gets abjectly knocked the fuck out.

People are talking about how classless this was, but here's the skinny:

• Mayerweather was winning the fight, and Ortiz, who'd talked a good game and caused fireworks at the press conference, couldn't figure him out.
  
• So he headbutts him and referee Joe Cortez deducts the point.
• At that point, the two embrace, and the ESPN CoveritLive said that Ortiz kissed him too.
• Cortez steps back, and Mayerweather just destroys Ortiz with two punches.

If you're willing to tell me that a fighter like that can make that elementary of a mistake, then he is not competent enough to get in the ring with a champion.

I think we may have viewed a fixed fight. Floyd Mayerweather is the only guy in that division worth any degree of "Money", and they're trying to position almost certainly the last mega-fight he can have, one with Manny Pacquiao (but that has to wait until Manny dispatches a served-up tomato can in November).

If Ortiz makes that bad of a mistake, he's either not competent or in on something. The Nevada State Athletic Commission needs to look in to this one.

EDIT: And that goes double after the Larry Merchant-Mayerweather "interview" (more like showdown!!). Merchant: "I wish I was 50 years younger. I'd have kicked your ass."