Has AJ ever mentioned Ortiz's name?

[Cutthroat]

Some posters brought it up in another thread, Ortiz was AJ's mandatory last year, AJ swerved him and Ortiz went on to fight Wilder.

I googled it, youtubed it, nothing, it's really strange. I cannot find a single instance of AJ ever mentioning Ortiz's name other than when Wilder beat him.

I mean you can find articles of AJ mentioning Pedvetkin, Whyte, Pulev, Fury etc. but when it comes to Ortiz it's almost as if he didn't exist?

[juggernaut666]

Thats the problem with you Wilderettes you think fights get made on social media, if you look at Wilders resume you will see its not the case !

Ortiz declined Hearns extended contract offer to GUARANTEE Joshua after Takam and PAY him not to fight Wilder by offering him a side U.K fight even hough Joshua HAD to fight Ortiz bc of the WBA mandatory position he lost by testing positive twice ( regardless of whatever ) and losing to Wilder .

[Larry the boss]

Why should he mention his name??? Ortiz is beneath him and has nothing he wants

[Madison Boxing]

why would he be calling out ortiz for lol. just been ko'd and not beaten anyone above scrub level since 2015. his signature win is bryant jennings. hes also approaching 40 so not only has he never achieved anything, hes also past prime.

[Larry the boss]

When you are a champ you fight others champs...You can never blame a champ for not mentioning contenders.. especially ones who failed multiple drug tests

[ThelronMike]

British fans once again doing anything to discredit ortiz. Even though their Hero's sidekick Dillian Whyte had to get help from the ref to win his fight and was about to pass out from exhaustion after the second "KD"

[TheBigLug]

Yeah, why would he? Ortiz has fought one real notable opponent and got stopped.

Also, Ortiz had a chance to get on AJ's radar and in line for a potential fight when he was fighting on Hearn's shows and ended up struggling with Malik Scott and stinking the place out.

Ortiz beat one half decent opponent 3 years ago.

I actually like Ortiz but let's just be honest and realistic. If he wants to get a shot at another champ, he should get back in a mandatory position and not fail a 4th drugs test before he gets his shot.

[Stinger1]

Some posters brought it up in another thread, Ortiz was AJ's mandatory last year, AJ swerved him and Ortiz went on to fight Wilder.

I googled it, youtubed it, nothing, it's really strange. I cannot find a single instance of AJ ever mentioning Ortiz's name other than when Wilder beat him.

I mean you can find articles of AJ mentioning Pedvetkin, Whyte, Pulev, Fury etc. but when it comes to Ortiz it's almost as if he didn't exist?

Get your facts right, Ortiz CHOSE to fight Wilder and had his mandatory status revoked when he tested positive. Sorry to disappoint you but there was no swerving.

[Rubber Ducky]

Ortiz had already signed with Haymon and was close to finalising a fight with Wilder a month before Ortiz was even named mandatory. DiBella had even reserved 2 dates at the Barclays center for the fight.So the idea that Hearn and AJ swerved Ortiz is preposterous.

Remember Hearn tried to grow Ortiz's profile by giving him 2 fights with Scott and Allen, likely to grow interest in a future Joshua fight. One was even on the under card of the Joshua/Molina fight. That's how Hearn operates, he puts the ground work in to build future fights, it's why Povetkin fought Price on the Joshua/Parker under card and he's now fighting Povetkin.

Why would Hearn waste time and money building Ortiz's profile in the UK if he had no intention of making the fight and how would Hearn even duck the mandatory? Fact is if Ortiz had signed with Hearn instead of Haymon and not failed any doping tests he'd be facing Joshua now not Povetkin.

[Mrsantiago]

Ortiz had already signed with Haymon and was close to finalising a fight with Wilder a month before Ortiz was even named mandatory. DiBella had even reserved 2 dates at the Barclays center for the fight.So the idea that Hearn and AJ swerved Ortiz is preposterous.

Remember Hearn tried to grow Ortiz's profile by giving him 2 fights with Scott and Allen, likely to grow interest in a future Joshua fight. One was even on the under card of the Joshua/Molina fight. That's how Hearn operates, he puts the ground work in to build future fights, it's why Povetkin fought Price on the Joshua/Parker under card and he's now fighting Povetkin.

Why would Hearn waste time and money building Ortiz's profile in the UK if he had no intention of making the fight and how would Hearn even duck the mandatory? Fact is if Ortiz had signed with Hearn instead of Haymon and not failed any doping tests he'd be facing Joshua now not Povetkin.

Im not saying this to say anything about Joshua ducking or not ducking Ortiz. My response is more towards ypur eddie hearn comments about malik scott and dave allen. Eddie hearn new what he was doing with malik scott especially and so did malik scott he fought to survive once he tasted the power he made sure he wasn’t gonna get ko’d which if you ask anybody that knows boxing the hardest person to ko is a fighter that doesn’t wanna get ko’d. Knowing lying keniving Eddie hearn in order to make it look like Ortiz wasn’t worthy he would sign him to fight potential stinkers and at the same time get a pass for pretending to “help” him. Also another thing is when has a fighter besides Ortiz (who was later cleared mind you) been removed as a mandatory by one organization for failing a test in another organization ?
Read between the lines sometimes and dont let fandom control your thoughts.