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Damn I just watch the first episode of May vs Ortiz, Wtf is it just me or is ortiz ****ing huge? Mayweather looks like a African hungry orphan next to him. No lie but Ortiz packed some muscle.
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Yea, I'm trying to figure out how that kid was making 140. -
If you peep boxrec, you'll see that he was weighing in at WW five years ago. Also, Freddie Roach said that he told Vic to move up a long time ago. Felt Ortiz was draining himself.
Dunno when that was.
Roach expected Ortiz to beat Berto because of the weight
by Michael Rosenthal
Apr 21st, 2011
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Count trainer Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao’s trainer, among those who weren’t surprised that Victor Ortiz beat Andre Berto last Saturday.
Roach’s reasons? The weight at which they fought and a sparring session with Manny Pacquiao in 2008, when Pacquiao was preparing to face David Diaz in a 135-pound matchup.
Ortiz moved up from 140 pounds to 147 for the Berto fight, which he won by unanimous decision to take the WBC welterweight title.
“I picked Victor to win because I like him at that weight,” Roach said Wednesday at an open workout to promote Pacquiao’s fight against Shane Mosley on May 7. “My reason is one day that he sparred with Manny Pacquiao when he weighed around 155 pounds.
“… He and Manny Pacquiao had one of the best sparring sessions I’ve ever seen in my life. Manny started to get to him at the end but it was a great sparring session. I told him then, ‘Victor, you’re killing yourself to make 140 pounds. You’re making yourself weak.’ I told him at 147 he’d be a better fighter.
“I told him that for years. I told him at 147 he’d be a more resilient, stronger, better fighter. It was like Manny Pacquiao killing himself to make weight. Making weight is overrated. Fight at a weight you’re comfortable at. It’s healthier and makes you a better fighter.
“Vic is a guy who walks around at around 165 pounds. To get down to 140 is too much."
Ortiz also sparred at Roach's Wild Card Boxing Club in the process of making the junior welterweight limit. Things didn't go as well.
"He got stopped by a body shot once and knocked down by a head shot once. I said a higher weight would be better for Vic, and it surely was," he said.
Roach was asked whether he ever questioned Ortiz’s courage after he quit against Marcos Maidana in 2009.
“He’s a tough kid,” Roach said. “I wouldn’t underestimate him.”
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The dude is like 5'10.5 and probably walks around at 170+ lbs. He has the frame that could easily carry like 180lbs of muscle if he quit boxing and became a bodybuilder.
Look at his brother too, it's obvious they got the "bigger" mexican geneComment
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They'll be the same weight come weigh in.
Floyd will prevail.Comment
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He is MUCH bigger then Floyd, and will have a large weight advantage on fight night.Comment
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Victor Ortiz will knock him out in the 3rd round
heard it here firstComment
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