Comments Thread For: Luis Ortiz Must Face Alexander Ustinov By June 19, Orders WBA

[paulf]

It looks like the objections of Jennings and Ustinov were addressed but not Lucas Browne's.

I wonder how the WBA handled that? Did they just ignore Hatton Promotions?

He's fighting for the WBA "regular" title against Chagaev in March, so he doesn't need to be a sort of mandatory challenger for the interim title.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Hopefully Ortiz gets 3 to 4 fights this year. All I know is this guy has gained a lot of momentum going into this year. Ortiz made a huge statement against Jennings.

Hopefully HBO,Oscar and Golden Boy continue to build this guy into a feature attraction and get him elite competition.

Sucks that Ortiz is only making a splash now. He'll be 37 in March. If he wants to get anything out of his career, he has to get busy fast. We might only have him for another couple of years.

[londoner]

The WBA is an organisation working non-stop to build and maintain integrity within the fight game. Its main think tankers are, even as we speak, trying to figure a way of screwing sanctioning fees out of those low level guys boxing four round card fillers.

[-PBP-]

I hate the WBA but in this case, Ortiz needs this to get bigger fights. Whether it be the regular title, the interim title or just a ribbon for participation; what looks like a meaningless joke title to us is probably is only route to Fury and Wilder.

[Foreign Soil]

Hopefully there's a competent ref. Ustinov is slow to move and has extremely poor defense, but he's big enough to take a lot of repeated blows. The only thing of interest is to see how Ortiz reacts from getting hit by an Ustinov bomb, which he'll probably land a few before Ortiz takes over, if he just simply rolls with the shots. But yeah, Ustinov had to bail himself out of the Pulev fight after taking rounds of beatings. Wouldn't be surprised that he'll have to resort to the same, since it's kind of rare that anyone actually looks out for the fighters.

[anonymous2.0]

How many champions does the WBA have? This is killing the sport! Really a joke for same organization to have THREE heavyweight champions. WBA is officially irrelevant.

IIRC these are the belts


WBA

Interim, Regular, Super

IBF

Interim, Regular

WBC

Interim, Regular, Diamond

WBO

Interim, Regular, Super