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Title: Floyd Mayweather Jr. wins bizarre fight
Source: ESPN
URL Source: http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i ... unbeaten-knocking-victor-ortiz
Published: Sep 18, 2011
Author: AP
Post Date: 2011-09-18 01:36:41 by We The People
Keywords: None
Views: 1763
Comments: 1

LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. got a head butt, a kiss and a hug from Victor Ortiz.

He responded with a right hand that ended a bizarre fight early.

Mayweather remained unbeaten and did it in emphatic fashion Saturday night, stopping Ortiz at 2:59 of the fourth round to take the welterweight title Ortiz brought into the ring.

The end came just as the two fighters emerged from a break, in which Ortiz had embraced Mayweather in the center of the ring. As they broke, Mayweather shot out a left hand and followed it with a right that put Ortiz down in his corner.

Ortiz struggled to get up as referee Joe Cortez called an end to the fight.

"We touched gloves and we were back to fighting and then I threw the left and right hand after the break," Mayweather said. "In the ring you have to protect yourself at all times."

The round was already controversial, as Ortiz appeared to head butt Mayweather intentionally, leading Cortez to take a point away from him. After the head butt, Ortiz went to Mayweather and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

Seconds later they were in the center of the ring ready to resume action when two punches ended it quickly.

"I took the break by the referee and I obeyed exactly as I was told," Ortiz said. "And then, boom, he blindsided me."

Mayweather was winning the fight through three rounds, dominating with speed and landing good right hands to the head of Ortiz. He won all three rounds on two ringside scorecards, and two of three on the third.

Ortiz picked up the pace in the fourth round, trying desperately to get inside Mayweather's vaunted defense. He did on occasion and was having a better round when, late in the round, he appeared to intentionally head butt Mayweather in frustration as the two fought in Mayweather's corner.

"He did something dirty when it was his corner who said I was dirty," Mayweather said. "But I won the fight."

Mayweather later engaged in a verbal confrontation with HBO announcer Larry Merchant, calling him a name at one point.

Poster Comment; (Mayweather told Larry Merchant, "You ain't shit!" and Merchant said, "If I were 50 years younger I'd kick your ass!)"

Ortiz said he had apologized to Mayweather for the head butt and was getting ready to resume fighting when he said Mayweather punched too quickly coming out of the break.

"There's two ways to look at it but as far as I was concerned I came here to entertain the fans and I think they were entertained," Ortiz said. "There was a miscommunication with the referee but nobody is perfect and this was a learning experience."

Mayweather remained unbeaten in 42 fights, scoring the knockout he had predicted. Ortiz, who lost his 147-pound title, fell to 29-3-2.

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Mayweather Takes a Head Butt, Then Takes Out Ortiz in the Fourth Round

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LAS VEGAS — The final sequence came quickly, brutally, not even four rounds into Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s latest boxing triumph Saturday night. Enlarge This Image Julie Jacobson/Associated Press

Floyd Mayweather Jr., right, beat Victor Ortiz for the W.B.C. welterweight title Saturday night.

One minute, his overwhelmed opponent, Victor Ortiz, was being deducted a point for a clear and illegal head butt. The next minute, Mayweather feigned as if to hug Ortiz, stepped back, and hit him hard, twice — first with a quick left hook and then with a devastating right hand. Ortiz fell to the canvas, knocked out, dazed, confused. He would not rise for several minutes.

After the fight, Ortiz summed up its end this way: “And then, boom, he blindsided me.”

The crowd, which never seemed behind Mayweather, did not cheer the new World Boxing Council welterweight champion. In fact, it booed, loudly, lustily, as Mayweather assumed the role of villain once again.

It is a role that Mayweather seems to relish more with each passing fight, that of heel, a champion perhaps respected, but hated nonetheless. In fact, Mayweather swore at the HBO analyst Larry Merchant during an in-ring interview immediately after the bout.

“In the ring you have to protect yourself at all times,” Mayweather said. “We touched back after the break.”

He added: “He did something dirty.”

That was true, and the consensus ringside afterward seemed to be that Mayweather, the victim of the purposeful head butt, had not done anything illegal, even if he would not win any awards for sportsmanship. That is not his style, anyway.

The question now, as always, is whether Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will ever cease with substandard opposition and actually fight each other. But that is for another night.

The fight took place under a surreal backdrop, even by boxing’s circus-like standards, a confluence of crazy strange to anyone not named Mayweather, but normal, too, given the Mayweather clan’s involvement.

The fighter, a world champion in five weight classes, returned to the ring for the first time in 16 months. In recent weeks, he feuded with his father on HBO, contested numerous lawsuits and defended his legacy so loudly, so often, he seemed a bit jumpy, if not genuinely concerned. At the weigh-in Friday, he put his right hand on Ortiz’s neck, strange behavior for a 5:1 favorite.

Ortiz, 10 years younger, visibly bigger, entered the ring with muscles carved like some sort of Greek boxing god. He came here with a back story worthy of the big screen: abandoned by his parents, guardian to his younger brother, a fighter who sang in the school choir and played piano; whose leisure pursuits include skydiving and surfing and triathlons.

If Ortiz had pursued another vocation, he said he would have become an architect. Indeed, he constructed an unusual team. His trainers work day jobs, one a truck driver, one a landscaper, and his brother, when not in camp, drives a semi truck.

Ortiz’s career path seemed equally unorthodox. In 33 career fights, he lost twice and earned two draws, yet he knocked every single opponent down. The power in both his hands was evident, but his mental state begged questions, especially after he quit two years ago in a fight against Marcos Maidana. Ortiz said he went into that contest with a broken wrist and had shot himself with cortisone, without telling his trainers.

Still, doubt lingered, and even though Ortiz came into this fight as the W.B.C. titleholder, he said, “I don’t see myself as the champion.” And neither did anybody else.

That status went to Mayweather, boxing’s most divisive figure, loved and hated, sometimes all at once. Ortiz referenced often Mayweather’s “beautiful mouth,” and it worked overtime all month. In one odd twist, Mayweather took several shots at Oscar De La Hoya, the namesake of the company Mayweather hired to promote the fight, a boxing legend who recently left rehab.

For his part, De La Hoya said Mayweather picked opponents too old, too green, or too damaged. The undefeated Mayweather bristled at that suggestion, although the last time he faced a fighter age 25 or younger was in January 2001.

“I’ve been dominating the fight game since Victor Ortiz was 9 years old,” said Mayweather who called this training camp his longest ever and most grueling. “And I’m still sharp.”

So it went.

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