Condes To Receive Full Pay For Joyi Bout, Says Ortiz
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
The manager of former IBF minimumweight champion Florante Condes has assured us that Condes will receive “his complete pay” – meaning his purse for the title eliminator against Nkosinathi Joyi in East London, South Africa last June 27 – when the bank wire transaction is completed.
Ortiz was responding to inquiries from BoxingScene.com, insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports on the delay in Condes receiving his money.
Ortiz confirmed our earlier report that he had given Condes $1,000 prior to his departure for Manila after the Filipino southpawlost a lopsided twelve round decision in a fight where the courage of Condes was commended by the South African media.
Ortiz claimed that in his presence Filipino promoter Sammy Gello-ani and Condes had discussed “how and when Condes would be paid and they agreed.” He claimed that Condes was “very, very happy and that he didn’t want to carry so much money with him” on the flight back to Manila.
Ortiz who partnered Gello-ani in arranging the title defense of Condes in La Paz,Mexico last year in which he lost the title to hometown boy Raul “Rayito” Garcia by a split decision said that Condes was happy even after Gello-ani left him some three days before the crucial title eliminator and traveled to Atlantic City to watch the Fernando Lumacad – Jorge Arce super flyweight interim title fight. It was a claim Condes denied, on the record.
Condes denied most of the claims of Ortiz including the fact that he “understood very well everything I said to him” during the fight. Condes himself told us he doesn’t understand English and Ortiz was giving him instructions in English. Ortiz also said he had requested the help of two good cornermen who, he added, “helped me very well during the fight.”
Ortiz also said the reason trainer Joven Jimenez couldn’t accompany Condes to South Africa was because he submitted his papers late and couldn’t get a visa. However, promoter Branco Milenkovic whose letter of invitation was needed to facilitate the issuance of the trainer’s visa revealed he was not asked to submit the name of Jimenez and didn’t even know that Jimenez was his trainer until he read our stories on the internet.
