It’s doable if not possible that, when most followers hear the identify Victor Ortiz, they consider the fairly weird struggle 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 struggle in Las Vegas. Later that very same spherical, Mayweather made Ortiz pay by “sucker-punching” the daylights out of him.
Ortiz might imagine it unfair that he’s outlined by that struggle, nevertheless it’s totally doable that is certainly the case. Now, so a few years after that YouTube hit of a struggle, or at the very least its surprising ending proved successful, with it getting many tens of millions of repeat viewings by way of YT, Ortiz is again. The previous WBC welterweight champ will struggle on Mayweather’s undercard. Mayweather as followers know, will face John Gotti III in a return exhibition, the occasion to go down in Mexico, and 37 yr outdated Ortiz will go in with Rodrigo Damian Coria within the chief help.
Ortiz is 33-7-3(25) and this might be his first struggle in over two years. Coria is at present 13-5(2) and the previous WBO Latin champ has by no means been stopped. This one may show fascinating. How a lot Ortiz has left and the way critical he’s close to his newest comeback we don’t know, however Ortiz continues to be a reasonably large identify and followers will tune in to look at him struggle.
Relating to the principle occasion and the ticket costs, a earlier article that appeared on ESB, written by yours actually, erroneously made that declare that an ‘Imperial Ringside’ seat at Mayweather Vs. Gotti part-two would set an individual again the jaw-dropping sum of $128,076. Quite a few different boxing websites additionally ran with the hefty costs theme. Nevertheless, the costs listed have been/are literally Mexican peso ticket costs, due to this fact whereas nonetheless on the costly facet, tickets for the August twenty fourth struggle card are usually not almost as ludicrously costly as was initially and erroneously regarded as the case ($100 equals $1,785.65 in Mexican pesos).
And with additional beneath card bouts set to be introduced, it’s probably the August card will pull in fairly numerous followers. Mayweather as we all know has by no means beforehand boxed in Mexico. Sure, the Gotti affair is, like the primary struggle, an exhibition bout, however Gotti III positive was fairly mad on the finish of his first assembly with Floyd, and it’s doable the grandson of the notorious mob boss might be in no temper to play by the exhibition guidelines when he will get a second go at Mayweather.
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