Comments Thread For: Luis Ortiz Aims For Three Fights in 2019, Hopes For Title Shot

[R.KHLMS4LIFE]

Next fight should be povetkin then Whyte AJ or even fury sure I'd like to see a Wilder rematch even for wilder was losing to Ortiz got saved by the Bell then got the job as Wilder usually does. Ortiz vs Povetkin or AJ would be a real nice fight .

[Earl-Hickey]

Wasn't he the WBA mandatory???

Yes he was. At the time he became WBA mandatory Joshua already had an overdue mandatory defence against Kubrat Pulev who had been waiting since before the AJ vs Klitschko fight.

The IBF and WBA talked and came to an agreement that Pulev would get the first shot and then Ortiz would be next after that. Obviously pulev got injured last minute and Takam was the standby replacement

Ortiz could have got his 25% vs Joshua (which would have been at least $5 million)

Instead he decided to accept a voluntary defence vs Deontay Wilder for $600k which was a ludicrously bad management decision.

I actually do feel bad for Ortiz because he lost out big time but he needs to fire his team and go back to Eddie Hearn as AJ shot or not Hearn will at least get Ortiz paid

[JWHardin]

Other away around Ortiz didn’t want to fight on 22nd Dec then got loud when he heard Chisora had signed up to the fight plus Whyte constantly called out Ortiz when he was signed to Matchroom but Ortiz decided to fight Dave Allen instead

You are full of **** dude. Hearn was even quoted saying that he would love Whyte vs Ortiz if the Chisora fight didn't work out. At the time Whyte called out Ortiz, nothing was signed with Chisora and talks had stopped. Ortiz is on record saying he would jump off the Wilder card and come to the UK to fight Whyte.

Don't be a lying sack.