Berto vs. Ortiz: Andre makes excuses for fighting another light welterweight
February 26th, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (27-0, 21 KO’s) will be making his sixth defense of his World Boxing Council welterweight title on April 16th against light welterweight contender Victor Ortiz (28-2-2, 22 KO’s) at a still unknown venue. Berto, 27, will be fighting his 3rd light welterweight in Ortiz and that’s something that has caused more than a few boxing fans to criticize Berto.
Berto defends his fight against Ortiz, saying in an article at the ringtv.com “Victor Ortiz is almost the same size as me or bigger.” That may be true, but Berto should still be fighting guys from his own division rather than cherry picking fighters from a division below his to fight time after time. It would be understandable that Berto would be facing Ortiz is this was a first time thing. But this is the 3rd time Berto has picked out a guy from the light welterweight division and it’s getting tiresome already.
Berto has good options at welterweight if he were only to fight the guys. Besides Jones, there’s Selcuk Aydin, Shawn Porter, Jesus Soto-Karass, Brad Solomon, and Sebatian Lujan. Those would be good fights if Berto would take on one of these guys instead of returning to the light welterweight pool time after time to find his opponents. He should just move down in weight and have done with the welterweight division.
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i like berto and think this is going to be a great fight until berto kos ortiz
what you guys have not talked about is Ortiz has fought a lot tougher people than Jones!!! Yes, he has lost twice but JOnes has not yet steped up to the plate and fought any great fighter like Ortiz.. I think it was a great decision for Berto to pick ortiz over Jones.. By the way Berto has asked to fight Packman and Abrum wont do it because he is scared to lose a big pay day if he loses..
he may make Ortiz quit, but if ortiz is swinging that left enough,he may have a good evening.
Berto for real is a paper champ. He’s been a belt for the past 2 years and depending it against low class fighters.
Ortiz really should have won the fight againt Petterson, but was robbed. Personally, this could be a good thing for Ortiz, if he can beat Berto, which is a simple task as long as he cuts off the ring, and makes Berto fight him. Berto has a weak chin, and terrible defense. If Ortiz can get inside, and cut off the ring, shoot short punches, he can beat this Bum, so people can stop writting about him, and make him a regular Unknown C level fighter that he is.
Shawn Porter vs. Mike Jones!
Berto is a clown fighter!
No Pride or intention of fighting the best!
Nothing else to say about this guy, he should just give up his belt. It’s really tough to expect a lot for this Dude, we all should just leave him alone. Hope he’ll bring up an exciting and competitive fight next time.
This is why this Berto can’t land fights with the big boys. Berto should fight Margarito at least not someone in the lower weight division. Mayweather did that and it didn’t look good on him especially with the BWAA.
and yet a lot of criticisms hurled at Pac when in fact he’s fighting a legit top 5 welterweight and a future hall of famer…this berto is a plague in boxing just like his manager Al Haymon….All talk, but contradicts themselves when it comes to actual fights…..
Berto has been fighting soft competition, but Ortiz is a big boy and a good fighter so I think this could be a pretty good fight. Ortiz might actually even do better at welter than he did at junior cause makin weight will not be a problem so I guess we’ll just wait and see. I’m actually lookin forward to a Berto fight for the first time in a long time.
I am sick of Berto, after this softy, if he doesn t fight Cintron, Williams, Cotto, Mayweather, Pacman, Marinez, or rematch Colazzo I will be threw with him and will not support any of his soft adventures. I shoyuld pick one of them!
arum should keep quite with all he has been doin with his boxers especially manny. he invented this style of buissness
@lou….. you hit ortiz he curles up in a corner like a baby and quites. and berto is that one hita quita kind of boxer. knock out berto wins easy too much power tooooo fast….. and for those who critisize this match up ******** ITS BUISSNESS ****** isnt that the excuse another boxer is allowed to use.
@roy..eh theres no comparison between berto and floyd..mayweather cleaned out the entire superfeaterweight division and has won 5 weight titles beating legends like mosley,marquez,dlh,castillo,gatti,corrales..and other good fighters like genaro hernadez,judah,chavez,mitchell
thats just a hater and ignorant comment…and he never fought for a vacant tile to win always fighting the best champ or lineal champ.
and as for berto he is being somewhat protected but at the end of the day if he fought any of the other so called top welters people wud just say he fought nobodies cos these guys themselves have not yet themselves beat a top fighter.
ortiz is a good fighter who walks around at middleweight he isnt small! and height and reach is similar aswell
Berto is handled by Harmon the manager of Mayweather so what do you want to expect,he protect his zero like Mayweather,he is groom to be a super star like Mayweather,even paid tons of money by HBO even though he can draw only a thousand in his backyard,Harmon is the architect of cherry picking Berto and Flod are the recepient.
I think it’s going to back fire on Berto this time, he’ picked the wrong Jr Welter. I would have loved it if he had chosen maidana instead
Berto needs to unify the titles, or beat Paul Willams, then Pac-Man will have to fight him. or maybe loose to Paul willams and Pac mite want to fight him even more.
HEY AMBROSE BERTO IS THE REAL PAPER CHAMPION, HES NOT FIGTHING ANYONE GOOD. HES LUCKY THAT HAITI HAD AN EARTHQUAKE BECAUSE OLD SHANE MOSLEY WAS GONNA KILL HIM.
Berto does nt deserve to fight Pacquiao yet. thats what arum trying to say
This Berto-Ortiz fight should be for the junior middleweight belt! They could both weigh in at 144, it doesn’t matter at all, as long as they are not over 154, and obviously as Pac-Marg proved neither fighter even has to be in the division to get a fight for a vacant title! If Berto was with Top Rank, Arum would make it for that belt and be ranting about how Ortiz’s draw was a fluke and he’s still the toughest opponent out there for Berto.
Arum criticizing someone for fighting someone coming off a draw?!? What about ODLH, Cotto, Clottey, Margarito, Hatton, Barrera, Morales, and most currently Mosley??? Arum is getting up there in years, perhaps alzheimers is starting to rear its ugly head.
Shawn Porter isn’t ready yet. Give him a couple years, I believe he will be the next big thing to boxing.