Maidana Upsets Ortiz in Thriller!
Sunday June 28, 2009
As one of boxing's top prospects, 22-year-old Victor Ortiz was being groomed as a future PPV superstar. Did Marco Maidana derail those plans temporarily? Or permanently? Find out why there's legitimate cause for concern in the camp of Ortiz's promoter Oscar De La Hoya.
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Other fighters in action this week included Juan Manuel Lopez, Cornelius Bundrage, Jorge Arce, Arthur Abraham, Jorge Linares, Omar Narvaez, Daniel Jacobs, Deontay Wilder, Fres Oquendo, Herbie Hide, Mike Arnaoutis and Paul Spadafora. Bookmark our complete fight results page to stay on top of all the latest winners and losers.
Comments
This was a very entertaining and exciting fight. Equally entertaining was the post-fight interview with Ortiz. The guy was brutally honest – almost “too” honest in his assessment of the fight and his future.
I can understand his not wanting to live the rest of his life as a drooling vegetable, but if that’s the case, he may have picked the wrong career.
As morbid as it may be, fight fans do not want to see a boxer being “prudent” or “careful.” They want action and if you go out, they want you out on your back, leaving everything in the ring. “Quit” is truly a four letter word in boxing.
His comments were something that usually only an established, war-grizzled veteran could get away with making. He’s too young and unknown to be making moves like this already.
He’d better string together a whole bunch of successive and impressive victories or his potential star atatus will be cooked.