Evidently after watching the replay of last Saturday’s fight between former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz and undefeated pound-for-pound champion Floyd Mayweather, a fired up Oscar De La Hoya took to his Twitter account to once again share his thoughts on the fight. “Watched the Ortiz fight again and I have to say Ortiz was coming on. it was only the 4th round and Ortiz was letting his hands go,” De La Hoya commented, doing his job as Ortiz’s promoter to convince fans that the action was just starting to heat up prior to the 4th round knockout.
“He was just warming up putting may weather on the ropes. then the cheap shot came along and the ref was lost looking at someone ringside,” De La Hoya would post as he again tried to explain the events leading up to left hook, right hand combination that put Ortiz down for the count. What De La Hoya failed to mention to his followers, however, was the fact that it was actually Ortiz who literally launched himself head-first into Mayweather, prompting referee Joe Cortez to call a halt to the action in order to deduct a point for the blatant and intentional foul prior to the alleged “cheap shot”.
Instead, De La Hoya would quickly gloss over Ortiz’s blatant disregard for the rules, simply stating, “Ortiz wanted to make it a street fight not an unfair fight,” as if his actions throughout the course of fight were perfectly fine. “The head butt was penalized. wasn’t it?”
If it’s a street fight that Ortiz wanted, then he got exactly what he asked for when, after touching gloves on several occassions, hugging and literally kissing to make up after the foul, Mayweather landed a clean left hook followed by a right hand after the referee instructed both fighters to resume fighting. While Ortiz was more concerned about apologizing for something he had been doing in nearly every round of the fight, Mayweather was more concerned about making him pay for his mistake of leaving his guard down. A quick left hook from Mayweather snapped Ortiz’s face to the left, where he looked at the referee in surprise, before the same right hand he had been dominating with all night finished the fight for good.
