LOL what happened to ortiz vs rios?

**Golden Boi 360** · 04-01-2017, 06:59 PM

If I had to guess, Ortiz probably didn't want it.

**DoktorSleepless** · 04-01-2017, 07:02 PM

Didn't Ortiz have to go to jail?

**Southpawology** · 04-01-2017, 07:04 PM

Ortiz team kept pushing back the date

**vman075** · 04-01-2017, 07:15 PM

I think there was an issue with televising it. Showtime said they wouldn't do it as a main event but was open to doing it as an undercard. I'm guessing they wanted main event money.

**GMAN SUPREME** · 04-01-2017, 07:29 PM

Originally posted by DoktorSleepless

Didn't Ortiz have to go to jail?

this the first I'm hearing about ortiz going to jail. I remember he had a dui a while back but IDK.

**GMAN SUPREME** · 04-01-2017, 07:41 PM

Originally posted by vman075

I think there was an issue with televising it. Showtime said they wouldn't do it as a main event but was open to doing it as an undercard. I'm guessing they wanted main event money.

that's cold, these two sluggers cant get a main event spot on showtime? showtime has had worse main events than this hymie needs to look elsewhere like spike they are all owned by cbs so who knows

**Eff Pandas** · 04-01-2017, 07:57 PM

Originally posted by vman075

I think there was an issue with televising it. Showtime said they wouldn't do it as a main event but was open to doing it as an undercard. I'm guessing they wanted main event money.

I could see that. I mean its kinda like an invisible grudge match in a way with it living mostly on Youtube videos from several years back that only a small segment of boxing fans have probably seen. That sorta grudge can't pay all that well or throw you on top of the card necessarily lol.

**Ce1ska** · 04-01-2017, 08:05 PM

They should both retire, both seem like they've suffered some brain damage.

**Scipio2009** · 04-01-2017, 08:09 PM

when was the last time that Victor Ortiz was in a boxing gym

Originally posted by GMAN SUPREME

all the experts on here said it was going to happen. well what happened? it was a good old fashioned grudge match should have been easy enough to make. did pbc screw up again? I was looking forward to these two punching bags go at it.

The matchup is a grudge match (which would mean alot for folks with rooting interests in the fight), but a win doesn't really do anything to advance either guy.

You add that both guys are going to want to get paid for the fight (Rios got $800k on his last fight, while Victor Ortiz got $750k), and it seems like everything is down to finding a place to put the event.

Hopefully both guys stay in the gym; that way, when PBC brings another big show to California (thinking one of the ESPN dates), Haymon/TGB will have a name fight to top one of those bills with.

With Brandon Rios now apparently being an option for a June date with Miguel Cotto, the calculus changes a bit

LOL what happened to ortiz vs rios?