Luis Ortiz: record, next fight and profile →
Due to lingering effects of his eye injury that he suffered in his October loss to Viktor Postol, Lucas Matthysse will not be part of the May 7th pay-per-view card featuring Saul Alvarez and Amir Khan from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Last Saturday night’s KO performance by Luis Ortiz in Washington, DC registered with HBO subscribers as an average of 740,000 viewers tuned in for the matchup with Tony Thompson. The fight peaked at 807,000 viewers. The viewership numbers marked a 20% increase from the last Ortiz appearance on HBO when in December of 2015 he knocked out Bryant Jennings in Verona, NY (616,000 viewers on average).
WBA interim-heavyweight champion Luis Ortiz (25-0, 22KOs) believes that he has all of the necessary ingredients to blow through the entire heavyweight division. This past Saturday night, Ortiz knocked out veteran Tony Thompson in six rounds in Washington, DC.
Washington DC - In what was a stay busy fight for rising heavyweight contender Luis Ortiz, he scored a knockout over veteran Tony Thompson this past Saturday. He knocked Thompson down multiple times finally scoring a knockout in the 6th round.
by David P. Greisman - The first boxing card I covered live was Mike Tyson’s final bout, when he quit against Kevin McBride and I asked a question in the post-fight press conference that made him curse. It probably didn’t ever take much to make Tyson curse. Over the years I have been on press row nine times in Washington...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - WBA Interim Heavyweight World Champion Luis 'King Kong' Ortiz (25-0, 22 KOs) continued his rapid descent up the heavyweight division, knocking Tony 'The Tiger' Thompson (40-7, 27 KOs) down twice before finishing him with a huge knockout in the sixth round.
Golden Boy Promotions has a heavyweight contender on its hands with Luis Ortiz, who stopped Bryant Jennings late last year and then finished late replacement opponent Tony Thompson in the sixth round this past weekend.
By Cliff Rold - On Saturday night at the DC Armory in Washington, DC, in front of approximately 4,300 fans, Cuban-born 36-year old interim WBA heavyweight titlist Luis Ortiz (25-0, 22 KO) of Miami, Florida, scored three big knockdowns en route to a sixth round knockout of 44-year old former two-time heavyweight title...
Fresh from a stunning knockout of Bryant 'By-By' Jennings and eager to continue his quest to be the best heavyweight in the sport, WBA Interim Heavyweight World Champion Luis 'The Real King Kong' Ortiz (24-0, 21 KOs) will face former world title challenger Tony “The Tiger” Thompson (40-6, 27 KOs) in 12-round main event at the DC Armory, in Washington D.C. on Saturday, March 5 and televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark® beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
From the moment he obliterated perennial Top 10 contender Bryant Jennings to end his 2015 campaign, Luis Ortiz knew he'd be walking around with a bulls-eye on his back. The unbeaten Cuban southpaw welcomes the attention, but is discouraged by his divisional peers offering more talk than action. His team struggled to secure a willing opponent for his March 5 headliner at D.C, Armory in Washington D.C. before landing on local heavyweight Tony Thompson. While Ortiz is grateful for the D.C-based southpaw answering the call, the trash talk in his direction has been a little tough to swallow.