By Edward Chaykovsky
Former welterweight champion Victor Ortiz is back on hunt for a shot at WBC/WBO/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Ortiz is still steaming from his 2011 knockout loss to Mayweather.
During the fight, Ortiz intentionally headbutted Mayweather during the fourth round. After a point had been deducted, Ortiz went over to Mayweather to apologize and the pound-for-pound king clocked him with two punches that closed the show with a knockout. Ortiz was upset after the contest, stating that he was defenseless with his hands down as Mayweather threw what Ortiz called "a cheap shot."
"I don’t hold grudges. I’m not an angry person, " Ortiz wrote on The Players Tribune. "But I’ll tell you this much — the night he and I fought in 2011, he lost all my respect. He definitely owes me a rematch because of how he knocked me out, costing me the WBC welterweight championship belt."
"I know the reason I haven’t gotten a rematch is because of how I was able to hit and hurt him. People that had never seen me fight before remember me as the kid he couldn’t stop. I know that’s why he went for a dirty knockout. I was too much for him and the only opportunity for him to stop me was when I wasn’t expecting him to."
"Floyd can say what he wants about his money, but, as a fighter, I know that fight and my face keeps him up at night when the cameras are off."
