Luis Ortiz: record, next fight and profile →
It was officially announced on Thursday that WBC Heavyweight World Champion Deontay Wilder will defend his title against mandatory challenger Bermane Stiverne on Saturday, Nov. 4 in a rematch of their 2015 world title fight. Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) dethroned defending champion Stiverne in January 2015 via unanimous decision in what was the promising challenger's toughest fight to date.
NEW YORK – Jarrell Miller would fight Luis Ortiz anyway. Miller has heard Deontay Wilder say the same thing, that the unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion still wants to face Oritz, even though Ortiz is embroiled in more performance-enhancing drug drama. The difference is, Miller doesn’t think Wilder means it.
The World Boxing Council, through President Mauricio Sulaiman, has issued a ruling - according to its Clean Boxing Program protocol - to withdraw their sanction of Deontay Wilder's scheduled defense on November 4th at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, against Luis Ortiz. The ruling was made after it was revealed last week that Ortiz failed a pre-fight drug test. Further, it was ordered that Wilder will fight his mandatory Bermane Stiverne.
By Tris Dixon - ONE wonders if, at this rate, there will be any heavyweights left. The list of drug cheats or those who have even posted positive tests is long, and it is growing longer. This week, Luis Ortiz, the WBC announced, tested positive for a banned substance, torpedoing his anticipated showdown with D...
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman is going through numerous matters at his organization's 55th annual convention in Baku. And biggest matter on Sulaiman's agenda is the doping scandal involving Cuban Luis 'King Kong' Ortiz, who has a fight scheduled against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder on November 4th at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) has been relentless since the news broke a few days ago that Luis Ortiz (27-0, 23 KOs) tested positive for a banned substance. The World Boxing Council is currently reviewing the incident to figure out what will happen next. The two boxers are scheduled to fight on November 4th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York and while a search for a replacement for Ortiz is underway, there still hasn't been an official ruling as to whether Ortiz will be allowed to fight or not.
Deontay Wilder hasn’t ruled out moving forward with his fight against Luis Ortiz. In the most recent video the unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion posted to his Instagram account, Wilder revealed that he has asked the WBC to allow him to fight Ortiz on November 4 despite that the Cuban contender has tested positive for two banned substances, diuretics Ortiz claims were prescribed to control high blood pressure. The WBC wouldn’t allow Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) to fight mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin once Povetkin tested positive for meldonium in May 2016, but Wilder hopes that won’t be the case this time.
Deontay Wilder can’t understand why this keeps happening to him. More than any other fighter in boxing in recent years, Wilder has had to deal with the consequences of opponents’ performance-enhancing drug use. For the third time in 16 months, Wilder won’t face his original opponent because the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association caught his opponent using a banned substance (https://www.boxingscene.com/luis-ortiz-fails-drug-test-deontay-wilder-fight-doubt--120926).
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, British contender Dillian Whyte (21-1, 16 KOs) is ready and willing to step in on late notice to fight WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs). Whyte has been chasing Wilder for a while and the door for a showdown just opened up in full force.
Promoter Lou DiBella, who works closely with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs), says his boxer is the biggest victim of PED use in the history of boxing. In the last 16 months, Wilder has had three big fights fall apart - after his opponents failed pre-fight drug test. The last setback was revealed on Thursday night, when World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman