By Chris Williams: Photo credit: Gene Blevins – Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions. Ramiro González – I’m kind of concerned about WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KO’s) after looking at how thin and over-trained he appears after I watched episode 3 of the HBO Mayweather/Ortiz 24/7 series last Saturday night. The skin is start to hang off of Ortiz’s face and his muscles are starting to look too thin for him.
I think Ortiz is overdoing it in training for this fight, and like a lot of young guys, Ortiz might be overdoing it in his big moment under the lights. It’s one thing fighting Andre Berto, Ortiz’s last opponent, but quite another matter to be fighting a superb fighter like Mayweather.
I think Ortiz is succumbing to the stress of the moment and is exercising even harder to try and set his mind at ease. It doesn’t work correctly when you’re young and you overdo it to try and get as much as you can out of your body to get to Mayweather’s level. Ortiz isn’t going to beat Mayweather on conditioning, so he needs to stop trying and just ease off already.
We’ve only got four more days to go before the fight, and the damage may already be done because of how much weight Ortiz’s taken off. He needs to cut his losses and just sit back and rest so that he has enough energy to make a fight of it. I don’t see Ortiz being able to compete in this fight, and the only real question is whether he’s good enough to win even one round against. That probably won’t happen unless Floyd backs off and takes a round off in between slaughtering Ortiz.
Mayweather is the best fighter in boxing right now, and Ortiz is taking a huge step up from a limited fighter like Berto, who Ortiz barely beat in his last fight. The only way Ortiz can beat Mayweather is if he knocks him out, and that’s probably not going to happen because of Mayweather’s great defense. It’s not realistic. And if Ortiz is as weak as he appears to be now, it’s going to make things even easier. Ortiz appears to have hit his peak a several weeks ago during training camp and it looks like he’s just wearing himself down now. How stupid of him.
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