Is Ortiz a Serial Liar???
This is an interview from Ring Magazine. For some reason when I hear him been interviewed I find it hard to believe anything he said. I've underlined every Lie i think he told in this one interview.
On the surroundings and the fans who greeted him at the MGM Grand on Tuesday:
"I've been focused on the fight, but at the same time, I don't pay attention to a whole lot. You ask me who are the top 10 fighters at welterweight or junior welterweight today, I have no idea."
On the disappointment following his draw with Peterson:
"So I was like, 'You know what, I don't care about my record. A record is a record, period. But I want the best pound-for-pound. In that case, it was Andre Berto at 147, (SInce when is Andre Berto Pound for Pound) because at the 140s, no one would give me a shot.
"Not even the so much talked about rematch between Maidana and myself. So once I was begging like crazy for that fight, and no shot was given to me, I was like, 'This isn't for me.'
On his view that his demise after the Maidana loss was overplayed:
"I think that it was super-overplayed, because I never arrived mentally. My coaches thought that I was fine, but I broke my wrist two weeks before the fight. They didn't know it.
"My buddies happen to be doctors, and I won't mention any names, but I won't mention them due to the fact that they can get into trouble. But they're my buddies, and, illegally, I shot myself with cortisone.
"I went into the fight with a broken wrist. I didn't let these guys know. I was going through a bad time. My whole family, and when I say family, that's only my brother and sister, but that's all that I have and that's all that I've ever had.
"But we kind of had fallen off track a little bit. That hurt me very bad in the sense of never arriving. I was in the locker room.
"For the first time ever, coach Danny sits there and he asks me, 'Are you ready?' I said, 'Well, we're here, let's just roll the dice and see what happens.'
On what it was like to fight Maidana:
"I got dropped, and after that first time getting dropped, memory erased. He hit me pretty hard and he put me down and after that, there was no recuperation of my memory.
"For me, though, that worked in a positive way, because I don't remember anything about the fight. So getting up and going to war, these guys, they explained the fight to me.
"My buddy David Rodela took me to the mirror and said, 'Hey, man, look at your face. You know you got up and went to war.' I said, 'What?' I thought we had gotten stopped.' Apparently, we've got a pretty good auto pilot.