Comments Thread For: Roberto Ortiz: I was up at 9, miking clock to recover

[FerFAL]

1)He was hurt before the KD by previous body shots, look at the fight again and you see when he starts holding, he couldnt take it no more.
2)That liver shot killed him, you could see it in his face.
3)He spat his mouth piece, maybe trying to buy more time, maybe trully DONE, either way there wasnt much point in going on.
4)He got up at 9 1/2, when boxers trying to juice every second will usually get up at 8 just to avoid any close call.
5)Lets be honest, he didnt complain until later, he was clearly done.

[Divine Hammer]

he got up before 10 so fight should have continued. bad stoppage.

[New England]

i agree with the stoppage. dude had spit the mouthpiece, and wasn't standing up and ready by 10. you don't count to 10. you wave the fight off.

the guy is supposed to be ready by the time you say nine. he should be getting up at seven or eight.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

He packed it in and collected his paycheque. He'll never see that kind of money again.

Back to fighting toilet cleaners in Mexico.

[PunchyPotorff]

One second makes no difference, nor does 2 or 3 seconds bonehead Ortiz. You're in the biggest fight of your career, you take a nasty shot to the liver, and by the look on your face going down, you wanted out! You can't BS fans on that one! If you could have gotten up at 7 as opposed to 9, then get up idiot. By the time you resume fighting, you'll be at 15 seconds anyway! If you're fine at 7, then you're fine at 8 seconds; stand up as opposed to leaving it to the referee, who's seen enough knockdowns he knew that when you began to bend and stand up at 9, you wanted out.

Ortiz was slow, tentative, carrying his hands very high to protect himself. There was no going to round 3 when he took that paralyzingly hook to the liver, the same one Bhop stopped Oscar with. Wait till you see the look on Ortiz face going down. Lol!

You and your lover Benjy Esteves Jr. need to get together for a hump-a-thon. You two are obviously a pair of idiots.

[PunchyPotorff]

Total b.s. stoppage. Benjy Esteves Jr. needs to be banned from the sport if he's that P poor of a ref not to even look at what he's doing. Complete idiot can't even give the guy a chance, even when it's OBVIOUS he could have carried on. I am sick of these lame excuses for refs skroo-ing with fights. And that would have been an amazing fight had it been allowed to play out. Benjy Esteves Jr. and Laurence Cole need to get the fek outta the sport. This is as bad as the Lara/Williams or Pac/Bradley I judging.

[Chrismart]

I thought it was a bad stoppage. You are running a risk of late it seems, waiting for the 9 count.

Lovely body shot from Lucas though.

[SplitSecond]

i agree with the stoppage. dude had spit the mouthpiece, and wasn't standing up and ready by 10. you don't count to 10. you wave the fight off.

the guy is supposed to be ready by the time you say nine. he should be getting up at seven or eight.

exactly, the ref can't get to 10, the point is to beat the count before 10

the ref said nine and he wasn't all the way upright before 10, so he lost by KO

it's 8, 9, waved off. simple.

[SplitSecond]

how can you fault the ref? by the time he was up it was 10, he didn't beat the count

[-2 Scrappy-]

I've seen UK fights where the ref counts a fighter out in that exact fashion a million times.

US refs tend to let the fighter go. But, I don't know that barely getting your knee off the canvas before the ref reaches 10 equates to beating the count.

I don't know how the rules are written on this. When a guy is still down at 9 and then attempts to jump up before the ref reaches 10, he has only himself to blame.

This. Ortiz has nobody to blame but himself