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Mayweather vs. Ortiz: Sucker punch or fair play? Merchant Blasted! [MERGED]
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Fuzzy_McNut
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LAS VEGAS -- In just one round, Floyd Mayweather Jr. got a head butt, a kiss and a hug from Victor Ortiz.
He responded with a right hand that ended a bizarre fight early.
Mayweather remained unbeaten and did it in emphatic fashion Saturday night, stopping Ortiz at 2:59 of the fourth round to take the piece of the welterweight title Ortiz brought into the ring.
The end came just as the two fighters emerged from a break, in which Ortiz had embraced Mayweather in the center of the ring. As they broke, Mayweather shot out a left hand and followed it with a right that put Ortiz down in his corner.
Ortiz struggled to get up as referee Joe Cortez called an end to the fight.
"We touched gloves and we were back to fighting and then I threw the left and right hand after the break," Mayweather said. "In the ring you have to protect yourself at all times."
The round was already controversial, as Ortiz appeared to head butt Mayweather intentionally, leading Cortez to take a point away from him. After the head butt, Ortiz went to Mayweather and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Seconds later they were in the center of the ring ready to resume action when two punches ended it quickly.
"I took the break by the referee and I obeyed exactly as I was told," Ortiz said. "And then, boom, he blindsided me."
Mayweather was winning the fight through three rounds, dominating with speed and landing good right hands to the head of Ortiz. He won all three rounds on two ringside scorecards, and two of three on the third.
Ortiz picked up the pace in the fourth round, trying desperately to get inside Mayweather's vaunted defense. He did on occasion and was having a better round when, late in the round, he appeared to intentionally head butt Mayweather in frustration as the two fought in Mayweather's corner.
"He did something dirty when it was his corner who said I was dirty," Mayweather said. "But I won the fight."
Mayweather later engaged in a verbal confrontation with HBO announcer Larry Merchant, calling him a name at one point and drawing a pointed response from the 80-year-old broadcaster, who said he would thrash the boxer if he "was 50 years younger."
While Ortiz claimed he was caught by a punch that came before Cortez ruled the fighters to continue, the referee said Mayweather did nothing wrong.
"Time was in, the fighter needed to keep his guard up. Mayweather did nothing illegal," Cortez said.
Mayweather, a 5-1 favorite in the fight against a champion 10 years younger, had vowed to go right after Ortiz and give the fans who bought the pay-per-view card at home an exciting fight. He mostly delivered on that promise, landing some good right hands in the early rounds and winning exchanges with his quickness.
Ringside punch stats reflected his dominance, showing Mayweather landing 73 of 208 punches to just 26 of 148 for Ortiz. Mayweather consistently beat Ortiz to the punch, and his experience and hand speed appeared to be the difference.
But he hadn't really hurt Ortiz and took some punches himself in the fourth round as Ortiz seemed to rally before the head butt touched off the series of events that brought the fight to an end. Ortiz quickly apologized to Mayweather after the head butt, giving him a hug and a kiss on the cheek while Cortez was busy taking a point away from him.
There was another quick hug in the center of the ring as action was about to resume, followed by the 1-2 combination by Mayweather that put Ortiz on his rear. Ortiz tried to get up, but was still on his knees when the fight was waved to a close.
"There's two ways to look at it but as far as I was concerned I came here to entertain the fans and I think they were entertained," Ortiz said. "There was a miscommunication with the referee but nobody is perfect and this was a learning experience."
Mayweather made a minimum of $25 million for his first fight in 16 months, a sum that will likely go up as the pay-per-view receipts are totaled. He could make even more against Manny Pacquiao next May should Pacquiao win his November fight with Juan Manuel Marquez and the two finally agree to fight.
Mayweather remained unbeaten in 42 fights, scoring the knockout he had predicted. Ortiz, who lost his 147-pound title, fell to 29-3-2.
LAS VEGAS -- In just one round, Floyd Mayweather Jr. got a head butt, a kiss and a hug from Victor Ortiz.
He responded with a right hand that ended a bizarre fight early.
Mayweather remained unbeaten and did it in emphatic fashion Saturday night, stopping Ortiz at 2:59 of the fourth round to take the piece of the welterweight title Ortiz brought into the ring.
The end came just as the two fighters emerged from a break, in which Ortiz had embraced Mayweather in the center of the ring. As they broke, Mayweather shot out a left hand and followed it with a right that put Ortiz down in his corner.
Ortiz struggled to get up as referee Joe Cortez called an end to the fight.
"We touched gloves and we were back to fighting and then I threw the left and right hand after the break," Mayweather said. "In the ring you have to protect yourself at all times."
The round was already controversial, as Ortiz appeared to head butt Mayweather intentionally, leading Cortez to take a point away from him. After the head butt, Ortiz went to Mayweather and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
Seconds later they were in the center of the ring ready to resume action when two punches ended it quickly.
"I took the break by the referee and I obeyed exactly as I was told," Ortiz said. "And then, boom, he blindsided me."
Mayweather was winning the fight through three rounds, dominating with speed and landing good right hands to the head of Ortiz. He won all three rounds on two ringside scorecards, and two of three on the third.
Ortiz picked up the pace in the fourth round, trying desperately to get inside Mayweather's vaunted defense. He did on occasion and was having a better round when, late in the round, he appeared to intentionally head butt Mayweather in frustration as the two fought in Mayweather's corner.
"He did something dirty when it was his corner who said I was dirty," Mayweather said. "But I won the fight."
Mayweather later engaged in a verbal confrontation with HBO announcer Larry Merchant, calling him a name at one point and drawing a pointed response from the 80-year-old broadcaster, who said he would thrash the boxer if he "was 50 years younger."
While Ortiz claimed he was caught by a punch that came before Cortez ruled the fighters to continue, the referee said Mayweather did nothing wrong.
"Time was in, the fighter needed to keep his guard up. Mayweather did nothing illegal," Cortez said.
Mayweather, a 5-1 favorite in the fight against a champion 10 years younger, had vowed to go right after Ortiz and give the fans who bought the pay-per-view card at home an exciting fight. He mostly delivered on that promise, landing some good right hands in the early rounds and winning exchanges with his quickness.
Ringside punch stats reflected his dominance, showing Mayweather landing 73 of 208 punches to just 26 of 148 for Ortiz. Mayweather consistently beat Ortiz to the punch, and his experience and hand speed appeared to be the difference.
But he hadn't really hurt Ortiz and took some punches himself in the fourth round as Ortiz seemed to rally before the head butt touched off the series of events that brought the fight to an end. Ortiz quickly apologized to Mayweather after the head butt, giving him a hug and a kiss on the cheek while Cortez was busy taking a point away from him.
There was another quick hug in the center of the ring as action was about to resume, followed by the 1-2 combination by Mayweather that put Ortiz on his rear. Ortiz tried to get up, but was still on his knees when the fight was waved to a close.
"There's two ways to look at it but as far as I was concerned I came here to entertain the fans and I think they were entertained," Ortiz said. "There was a miscommunication with the referee but nobody is perfect and this was a learning experience."
Mayweather made a minimum of $25 million for his first fight in 16 months, a sum that will likely go up as the pay-per-view receipts are totaled. He could make even more against Manny Pacquiao next May should Pacquiao win his November fight with Juan Manuel Marquez and the two finally agree to fight.
Mayweather remained unbeaten in 42 fights, scoring the knockout he had predicted. Ortiz, who lost his 147-pound title, fell to 29-3-2.
I'm trippin off the Floyd DICK RIDERS keep mentioning the headbutt like Ortiz's headbutt didn't result in deduction in points! Sucker punch from a sucka ass nigga!!!
Re: if i was 5o yrs younger i'd kick ur ass
The fight didnt end cause of the headbutt. But the way pbf went out is just sad considering he is our best fighter. Just seems like a lame ending to a great night of boxing. Ortiz made two major mistakes and paid for it. Pbf is a funny ass dude. It was bullshit, but so was him fighting another guy who poised no threat to him again. And the larry merchant thing was stupid. I love manny's comments at the end.
Erik is still that dude.
The fight didnt end cause of the headbutt. But the way pbf went out is just sad considering he is our best fighter. Just seems like a lame ending to a great night of boxing. Ortiz made two major mistakes and paid for it. Pbf is a funny ass dude. It was bullshit, but so was him fighting another guy who poised no threat to him again. And the larry merchant thing was stupid. I love manny's comments at the end.
Erik is still that dude.
And tha hoe count rises.Niggaz is really mad on here.You can tell who lost money trying to play Money May like hes a nobody.JOKES ON YOU BITCHES.
Fuzzy_McNut
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I'd put a no head butting clause in my next fight....a 100,000 dollar deduction for the first and 250 for the next
A little strong...but I expect that from a Giants fan.....(Go Cowboys)
Anyway...I agree that it was a sucker punch...
My thing though is that Joe Cortez needed to do a better job with both sucker punches...
And tha hoe count rises.Niggaz is really mad on here.You can tell who lost money trying to play Money May like hes a nobody.JOKES ON YOU BITCHES.
Hold up though...why does it have to be hoish...that someone says it was a sucker punch?
GTFOHTBS.....
What Ortiz did was bad and what Mayweather did was bad....
Could it be hoish that you are rubbing in Floyd's ball sweat on your face like its lotion...
STFU...and look in the mirror....and see that you owe money muthafucka...
Fuzzy_McNut
Banned
I wanna see this fight happen....fuc pacman fight.
Fuck around and be 42-1
Fuck around and be 42-1
right... cause telling a motherfucker they aren't fair or good at their job is classless, but threatening to fight a motherfucker in response is cool.
Men they behave like children deserve to be ridiculed. Both of them were stupid. I wish we could have seen pbf torture ortiz. But not this time. Maybe in the rematch. Cause pbf likes easy fights. This fight has to have a part 2.
Fuzzy_McNut
Banned
Salty wetback
when the man is 80 years old....
Floyd needs to humble himself a bit I said this after the argument with his pops....
They always say he scared of his opponents. Then when he agrees to fight them all the haters say he up against the fight of his life. At May wins the fight they start downplaying his opponent. You can't take them seriously.
And tha hoe count rises.Niggaz is really mad on here.You can tell who lost money trying to play Money May like hes a nobody.JOKES ON YOU BITCHES.
Maybe so....but take me out that equation. I streamed the fight for free and charged muhfuckas to watch the fight at the crib. Had a HD stream and majority of the people that came thru had no clue! Niggas paid 70, I made 90!!
Fuzzy_McNut
Banned
Let me get this straight....a female punches a man and a man hits her back....she deserved it.
But a boxer head butts another boxer and gets punched and it's foul?
ya'll niggas kill me i swear.
But a boxer head butts another boxer and gets punched and it's foul?
ya'll niggas kill me i swear.
call it like it is the ref walked ortiz to the judges and took the point walk him to his corner and instead of resetting the clock and calling fight on he did the opposite while ortiz was on his 5-6 apology floyd got tired and said i got shit to do im done tutoring this dude, ref fault--------with that said fight pac already
People that know boxing understand that this was a desperation move by Ortiz.
The headbutt was desperate.
Trying to extend to the time until they start fighting again is desperate.
Looking at the ref cause he got hit is desperate.
Not trying to get back up is desperate.
And what does he say after? He just came to give the crowd a good show.
Ok.
But ya'll wanna blame Floyd for doing what he is supposed to do?
The headbutt was desperate.
Trying to extend to the time until they start fighting again is desperate.
Looking at the ref cause he got hit is desperate.
Not trying to get back up is desperate.
And what does he say after? He just came to give the crowd a good show.
Ok.
But ya'll wanna blame Floyd for doing what he is supposed to do?
when the man is 80 years old....
Floyd needs to humble himself a bit I said this after the argument with his pops....
Lol it was a funny exchange. But overall it plays into what is wrong with the sport. Notice larry not saying he was one of the haters about erik's title fight at the end. Larry is a dick. But he cracks me up.
Re: bull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All i got in my head is Aries spears evander impersonation saying just that
These niggaz are making up new rules to shit on this nigga
Niggaz are like "everybody knows you hug, kiss, and do the hokey pokey after a pause in action before throwing another punc, everyone knows that"
All i got in my head is Aries spears evander impersonation saying just that
Fuzzy_McNut
Banned
by the way ortiz training team should be fired.
Larry Merchant....that shit had been long overdue.....first George Foreman told him he didn t know shit....now Floyd is telling him....lol
Re: if i was 5o yrs younger i'd kick ur ass
I'm not a fan of Mayweather but Ortiz grabbed the ropes and jumped into that head butt. That was intentional, so for that reason he got molly-whopped. The ref called time in and he was still trying to say he was sorry but I don't think he was sorry at all. After three or four rounds and there is a head but that stops the fight they go to the score cards to determine the winner. He was instructed to do that and got his ass beat.
I'm not a fan of Mayweather but Ortiz grabbed the ropes and jumped into that head butt. That was intentional, so for that reason he got molly-whopped. The ref called time in and he was still trying to say he was sorry but I don't think he was sorry at all. After three or four rounds and there is a head but that stops the fight they go to the score cards to determine the winner. He was instructed to do that and got his ass beat.
Re: if i was 5o yrs younger i'd kick ur ass
Man the headbutt happened because Ortiz allowed his youth to get the best of him.....
He couldn t control his emotions so he butted him.....
Point should have been deducted.....and a warning given...and next time a disqualification....
Man the headbutt happened because Ortiz allowed his youth to get the best of him.....
He couldn t control his emotions so he butted him.....
Point should have been deducted.....and a warning given...and next time a disqualification....
You cant really blame floyd, he gave ortiz a warning punch, blame the sorry ass ref for not sending them to their corners.
Its actually amazing how many dickriders this dude has
He aint giving up none of that check niggas
I could care less one way or another but that was a sucker punch
Yeah it was "fair" but still a sucker punch
Period
He aint giving up none of that check niggas
I could care less one way or another but that was a sucker punch
Yeah it was "fair" but still a sucker punch
Period
he didn't send them to the corner because he already resumed the fight ortiz wanted to keep hugging it out...mayweather was ready to fight.
no he didnt he was still talkin to the judges
Fuzzy_McNut
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