By Chris LaBate
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is confident that Victor Ortiz is not going the twelve round distance on Saturday night, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Ortiz, making the first defense of his WBC welterweight title, has promised to make it a war. When Mayweather fought more seasoned opponents in the past, they had the experience to survive. Mayweather doesn't believe Ortiz has the ability to survive once he gets in trouble. He says the young champion, because of his inexperience, responds by fighting.
"Victor won't go the distance, as long as he comes to fight. Every opponent who comes to fight gets knocked out. When [Shane] Mosley caught me with a good shot, I dug deep and then all he did was survive. Against [Juan Manuel] Marquez, I was beating him so bad that he went into survival mode. Ortiz won't be able to go into survival mode, he won't be able to," Mayweather said.
