Originally posted by twosweethooks
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The 2nd was close, both fighters had their moments. Ortiz' best moment was when he had Floyd backing up into the corner and caught Floyd with a couple punches into the ropes. Floyd still out landed him, and countered him well of the ropes on a few occasions in the round, and landed his right hand solid a few times. It was a close round, could have scored it either way.
The 3rd was all Floyd, he was whupping Ortiz that round. Victor did nothing, Floyd dominated the 3rd, hitting him at will.
The 4th was all Floyd for the first half, he even opened up some combo's on Ortiz in the opening seconds of the round. Around the middle of the round though, Ortiz caught Floyd with a couple punches, when Floyd was shaking his head. And for the next minute or so after that, Floyd assummed control, and was hitting Ortiz at will again, with Ortiz not doing much. Than, after Floyd hit Ortiz with an uppercut while backing into the ropes, Ortiz caught Floyd and had his little flurry their at the end. Still, only 2-3 punches landed, as Floyd avoided most all of the flurry, which prompted Ortiz to headbutt him. He was still out landed by a wide margin in the 4th. It's hard to give a guy a round where he has two moments where he lands 4-5 punches, when the other guy is hitting him at will the rest of the round. Floyd, had the 4th round edned with the point deduction, was going to be up 39-36 on my card, I gave Ortiz the 2nd round, though one could easily score that round for Floyd still.
And you have to take into account that this was Floyd's first 4 rounds in 16 months, and he ALWAYS ALWAYS picks it up after the first 3-4 rounds. So a "rusty" Floyd was easily beating Ortiz.
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