De La Hoya: If Deontay gets hit by Luis Ortiz, he’s not getting up

1-OrtizVidondo_Hoganphotos2By Scott Gilfoid: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya thinks that his fighter WBA interim heavyweight champion Luis Ortiz (23-0, 20 KOs) would flatten the talented WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) with a shot and that he wouldn’t be able to get up from the punch when/if the two large heavyweights fight in the future. And get this get; De La Hoya believes that Wilder would never even agree to fight the Cuban Ortiz in the future, as he’s someone that Wilder would choose to steer his career around.

Right now, the 6’4” Ortiz, who De La Hoya says is 33 rather than his listed age of 36, is traveling in a different path with Wilder. Ortiz is the interim WBA champion and is looking to get a title shot against either Wladimir Klitschko or Ruslan Chagaev.

Wilder and Ortiz can only fight now if Ortiz is able to beat Chagaev or Wladimir to pick up one or more of the world titles. Until then, there’s no point in Wilder facing the aging Ortiz, who looks to me to be a lot older than his listed age of 36.

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Luis Ortiz vs. Bryant Jennings on December 19th on HBO

1-OrtizVidondo_Hoganphotos1By Dan Ambrose: WBA interim heavyweight champion Luis Ortiz (23-0, 20 KOs) will be facing former world title challenger 31-year-old Bryant Jennings (19-1, 10 KOs) on December 19th on HBO Championship Boxing at the Turning Stone in Verona, New York. The Ortiz-Jennings will be on the Nicholas Walters vs. Jason Sosa card.

Jennings hasn’t fought since April of this year in losing to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko by a 12 round unanimous decision. The fight wasn’t competitive, but Jennings did a good job of avoiding the 6’6” Wladimir’s big right hand and left hooks.

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Luis Ortiz vs. Bermane Stiverne agreed to for Golovkin-Lemieux card

1-StiverneWilder_Hoganphotos4By Jim Dower: Heavyweights Luis Ortiz (22-0, 19 KOs) and Bermane Stiverne (24-2-1, 21 KOs) have agreed to a fight that will be taking place on the undercard of the Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux fight card on October 17th at Madison Square Garden in New York.

While the fight has been agreed to between Stiverne and the Cuban Ortiz, they still haven’t yet signed the contracts for the fight. According to Dan Rafael, Ortiz has signed for the fight. He’s promoted by Golden Boy Promotions. Stiverne has yet to sign for the fight. He’s with Don King. It’s unclear what he’s waiting on.

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Ortiz destroys Kayode

By Gav Duthie: Luis Ortiz 22-0 (19) ended the recent poor run of Cuban form with an impressive first round knockout over Latif Kayode 20-1 (16). Ortiz was really flying the flag for Cuban’s after recent defeats to Gamboa, Salinas, Lara and heavyweight duo Solis and Mike Perez.

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