By Mark Vester
On the undercard to Joel Casamayor-Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Victor Ortiz (22-1, 17KOs) punished Roberto David Arrieta (30-14-4, 13KOs) to stop him in five-rounds.
The fight was barely a contest. Ortiz stalked and battered Arrieta with heavy punches during the entire fight. Arrieta went down from a straight left in the second-round. He went down again during the fourth from a hard Ortiz combination, which also opened up a nasty cut above his right eye.
In the fifth, Arrieta went down for the third time in the fight and referee Jay Nady stopped the action.