Miguel Cotto was winning his WBO junior welterweight title bout against Demarcus Corley, but a hometown referee made sure the Bayamon, Puerto Rico crowd went home happy.  Cotto scored a flash knockdown in the first round and it was apparent that Cotto, who entered the ring at 157 pounds just one day after making the 140-pound limit, had a huge strength advantage. Corley gamely turned the bout into a slugfest, and he hurt Cotto pretty badly in the third round. After some rocky moments, Cotto weathered the storm.  In the fifth, he hurt Corley and sent him to the canvas with a borderline shot that easily could have been ruled a low blow.  Cotto proceeded to belt Corley while he was down, much like Roy Jones did when disqualified against Montell Griffin. Referee Enrique Quinones Falu took no notice. Corley briefly protested but resumed boxing, only to get backed into a corner by Cotto.  Still hurt, Corley took a knee while dipping low to avoid a Cotto punch. Although no punch landed, Quinones Falu seized the moment to make sure Cotto would leave the ring victoriously.  Cotto likely would have won the bout anyway, but the premature stoppage left a bad taste.  Certainly, the WBO's selection of Quinones Falu, a Puerto Rican referee in a bout held in Puerto Rico with a Puerto Rican titlist against a non-Puerto Rican challenger was a violation of its own rules.  WBO rule 23 calls for the appointment of referees who are not from the same place, residence or origin as the champion.  Of course, in the unpoliced world of boxing, such unfairness on the part of corrupt sanctioning bodies is par for the course. --Scott Shaffer