By Jason Kim: James Toney believes WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz will quit next month against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in their fight on September 17th in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Toney states that Ortiz quit previously in his loss to Marcos Maidana in 2009, and he thinks that Ortiz will quit once again when the going gets tough against Mayweather.
Speaking with examiner.com, Toney said “Victor Ortiz, he already quit once and it’s going to happen again.”
I’m not sure if Toney saw Ortiz’s fight against Andre Berto last April, a fight in which Ortiz got up off the deck twice to win the fight by a 12 round decision.
Things weren’t going smoothly for Ortiz during stretches of that fight, yet he came back and proved himself by knocking Berto down twice and outworking him. I think Berto is a harder puncher than Mayweather with equal speed and better combination punching.
If Berto couldn’t make Ortiz quit, then I don’t believe that a pot shot fighter with lesser power like Mayweather is going to worry Ortiz to the point where he’ll quit. I mean may lose the fight by a 12 round decision if Mayweather can outbox him but I don’t see Ortiz ever quitting in this fight.
It’s going to take someone really powerful to put enough of a beating on Ortiz where he’ll quit just to survive the beating. But I don’t think Mayweather is that kind of fighter that has the power needed to make Ortiz crumble mentally and want to escape by quitting.
I don’t see either of these fighters quitting. But I do think Mayweather will likely end up winning a decision by a fairly wide margin. It’d difficult to win rounds against Mayweather, and I can’t see Ortiz doing enough to win very many rounds.
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