Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz (18-2-1, 9 KOs) obtained again to his successful methods with a blistering fourth-round knockout of veteran Cristian Mino (24-10-2, 17 KOs) of a scheduled ten-round contest on Friday night time on the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida.
The huge-looking Ortiz dropped Mino 4 occasions within the combat, knocking him down in every spherical. Within the fourth, Ortiz backed Mino up towards the ropes and unloaded a lightning-fast barrage of pictures, ending with two left palms that put his opponent down.
The referee then stepped in and halted the competition. The official time of the stoppage was at 2:00 of spherical 4.
Jamaine Ortiz, 28, had misplaced his final combat to WBO gentle welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez by a controversial 12-round unanimous on February eighth in a combat that many boxing followers felt he did sufficient to win.
Tonight, Ortiz wasn’t going to depart it to the judges, as he went after Mino in spherical one, unleashing a flurry of punches to place him down on the canvas. The final two punches the Massachusetts native Ortiz had Mino with have been rabbit pictures, however the referee didn’t say something.
In spherical two, Ortiz dropped Mino with a sledgehammer punch to the physique. Ortiz seemed like a smaller model of Sonny Liston with the shape that he confirmed with that physique shot. It was stunning that Mino was in a position to rise up from the punch.
Ortiz knocked Mino down with a left to the pinnacle in spherical three. Apparently, Mino landed a proper hand as quickly because the motion resumed. He loaded on the punch, hoping to catch Ortiz without warning, which he did, however there wasn’t sufficient energy on it to harm him. The way in which that Mino was attempting to show the combat round with a single punch was attention-grabbing.
Within the fourth spherical, Ortiz shouldered Mino to the canvas. The roughhouse tactic angered Mino, who picked up Ortiz and body-slammed him on his again in a wrestling transfer that Olympic gold medalist Dan Gable would have been pleased with.
The referee stopped the motion and penalized Mino a degree for the foul, which was an affordable factor to do. He ought to have penalized Ortiz as nicely or his shouldering and rabbit punching, however he didn’t select to with the A-side fighter.
Moments later, Ortiz completed off Mino with two lefts to the pinnacle that put him down on the canvas for the fourth time. The referee then stopped the combat.
After the combat, Ortiz referred to as out 140-lb champions Jose ‘Rayo’ Valenzuela, Liam Paro and Teofimo Lopez. He took a shotgun strategy by calling out three of them. Teofimo in all probability desires nothing to do with Ortiz after the issues he gave him final February. I watched that combat and had Ortiz successful 117-111. It wasn’t even shut.
Ortiz seemed sufficiently big tonight to combat at 154 simply. He was large within the ring in comparison with the tiny Mino and seemed like he didn’t belong combating somebody that small. It’s comprehensible why Ortiz wouldn’t wish to transfer as much as 154 as a result of these guys can punch, and he wouldn’t have the ability to get as a lot mileage out of his profession as he can at 140, combating smaller guys.
