The ringwalks for Mayweather vs. Gotti III are scheduled for 11 p.m. ET / 4 a.m. UK with the occasion set to start at 7:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 a.m. UK.
It’s attainable, if not possible, that when most followers hear the identify Victor Ortiz, they consider the fairly weird combat Ortiz had with celebrity Floyd “Cash” Mayweather. It was again in September of 2011 when Ortiz took it upon himself to headbutt Mayweather within the fourth spherical of their title combat in Las Vegas. Later that very same spherical, Mayweather paid Ortiz again by “sucker-punching” the daylights out of him.
Ortiz might imagine it unfair that that combat defines him, however this can be true. Now, so a few years after that YouTube hit of a combat, or no less than its surprising ending, proved a success, with it getting hundreds of thousands of repeat viewings by way of YT, Ortiz is again.
The previous WBC welterweight champ will combat on Mayweather’s undercard. As followers know, Mayweather will face John Gotti III in a return exhibition, the occasion to go down in Mexico, and 37-year-old Ortiz will go in with Rodrigo Damian Coria in chief assist.
Ortiz is 33-7-3(25), and this might be his first combat in over two years. Coria is at the moment 13-5(2), and the previous WBO Latin champ has by no means been stopped. This one may show fascinating. We don’t know the way a lot Ortiz has left and the way severe he’s about his newest comeback, however Ortiz continues to be a fairly large identify, and followers will tune in to observe him combat.
Relating to the primary occasion and the ticket costs, a earlier article that appeared on ESB, written by yours, really erroneously made the declare that an ‘Imperial Ringside’ seat at Mayweather Vs. Gotti half two would set an individual again the jaw-dropping sum of $128,076. Quite a few different boxing websites additionally ran with the theme of hefty costs.
Nonetheless, the costs listed had been/are Mexican peso ticket costs; due to this fact, whereas nonetheless on the costly aspect, tickets for the August twenty fourth combat card are usually not practically as ludicrously costly as was initially and erroneously regarded as the case ($100 equals $1,785.65 in Mexican pesos).
And with additional undercard bouts set to be introduced, it’s probably the August card will pull in fairly a lot of followers. Mayweather, as we all know, has by no means beforehand boxed in Mexico. Sure, the Gotti affair is, like the primary combat, an exhibition bout. Nonetheless, Gotti III certain was fairly mad on the finish of his first assembly with Floyd, and the grandson of the notorious mob boss could also be in no temper to play by the exhibition guidelines when he will get a second go at Mayweather.
Mayweather vs. Gotti III combat date
- Date: Saturday, August 24
- Time: 7:30 p.m. ET / 12:30 a.m. UK (Sunday)
- Principal occasion ringwalks (approx): 11: p.m. ET / 4 a.m. UK (Sunday)
Floyd Mayweather John Gotti III combat card
- Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III; Exhibition
- Victor Ortiz vs. Rodrigo Damian Coria; Exhibition
- Alan David Picasso vs. Azat Hovhannisyan: Tremendous bantamweight
- Curmel Tramayne Moton vs. Victor Vazquez; Light-weight
- Luis Rodriguez vs. Cesar Vaca; Tremendous middleweight
- Aaron Silva vs. Alfonso Flores; Tremendous middleweight
- Silvia Torres vs. Cecilia Rodriguez; Girls’s mild flyweight
