Rios vs Ortiz: Come on boxing, be cool for once!

**da_beast** · 03-09-2012, 06:35 AM

@ 147 against Ortiz Rios would get slaughtered.. He is too one dimensional .. He should aclimatise to 140 first and take a few fights and try and get a title there first and maybe try and clean up the division as its just lost all its top players to Welterweight but I think he is too one dimensional to clean up @ 140

**LeG00N** · 03-09-2012, 06:38 AM

.....okay Ortiz would stop him early.
Ortiz looks huge even @ 147.
While Rios looks big @ 135 .....
I wouldn't mind watching it @ 140....

if Ortiz can even make that weight.

**da_beast** · 03-09-2012, 06:47 AM

Originally posted by MANIAC310

.....okay Ortiz would stop him early.
Ortiz looks huge even @ 147.
While Rios looks big @ 135 .....
I wouldn't mind watching it @ 140....

if Ortiz can even make that weight.

I doubt that ortiz can make 140 and if he could he would be a dead man walking.. In his last fight at LWW against Petterson he had no energy after about 3 rounds.. As soon as Rios fights anyone who is the same size/bigger that he can't walk through and who has decent/average fundamentals he will struggle..

**gmc_rfc_06** · 03-09-2012, 06:57 AM

Ortiz would dominate that fight, especially at 147.

Rios is big for 135, Ortiz is HUGE at 147, that's too much of a jump for a guy who's only advantage is physical size.

**rochemback** · 03-09-2012, 09:00 AM

Sure it's a big jump, but Rios himself said he would do it.
Also, Gamboa was about to jump 2 weight classes as well and that wasn't a problem, right?

Or make a catchweight at 144/145, I don't care, I just want to see this fight, I'm tired of looking forward to fights which are "in jeopardy" each day...

**gmc_rfc_06** · 03-09-2012, 09:27 AM

Originally posted by rochemback

Sure it's a big jump, but Rios himself said he would do it.
Also, Gamboa was about to jump 2 weight classes as well and that wasn't a problem, right?

Or make a catchweight at 144/145, I don't care, I just want to see this fight, I'm tired of looking forward to fights which are "in jeopardy" each day...

Gamboa would have been the far better boxer though. It would have been a case of ability vs size.

In this case Ortiz would be the better fighter and also the bigger guy.

**Cuauht�moc1520** · 03-09-2012, 11:26 AM

Two different weights, two different fighters. Rios is a 140lber, Ortiz can possibly go to 154 in the near future he's so big and strong. I wouldn't make that fight if I was Rios people unless it was at 140lbs.

**rochemback** · 03-09-2012, 01:19 PM

I would favor Ortiz, too, but Rios himself said he'd take that fight, so why argue whether it makes sense or not?
I say a tune-up for Rios (if Gamboa is not in the fight) at 140, a tune-up for Ortiz at 147 a bit earlier than end of june (I speculate that he is in shape, he already trained for the February date) if Berto opts out in time (that's the real deal breaker, I suppose) and then meet in the middle at a catch weight sometime in summer. People would definitely buy this, I know I'd want to watch it...

People will be pissed if Rios fights "only" Abril in April without the perspective of a similar big fight as the one promised versus Gamboa.

Also Rios is probably not a 140lber for the rest of his career. He was almost literally killing himself to make 135 and did not succeed for the Murray fight. Ortiz will not go to 154 in the near future, he's only been a welter for two fights now, so let's not exaggerate...

**Fetta** · 03-09-2012, 01:31 PM

Ortiz KO's this clown in 5. But to bad one is GBP and the other TR

Rios vs Ortiz: Come on boxing, be cool for once!