Victor Ortiz: record, next fight and profile →
Kell Brook's début fight for Matchroom Sports will see the welterweight prospect box in Sheffield for the first time in six years. Kell is boxing in 'The Steel City' on June 25th. The 24-year-old's last fight in his native city saw him post a six round point's win over the late Ernie Smith.
Andre Berto's loss this past weekend to Victor Ortiz, while valiant in its ways, was a hard one to swallow for his trainer Tony Morgan. Having trained the Haitian-American star since he was just a teenager, Morgan has gotten to know Andre on the inside and out throughout their time together in Winter Haven, Florida and abroad.
Pre-fight fussing and feuding with his own brother and his ex-fighter "Vicious" Victor Ortiz aside, trainer Robert Garcia is taking the high road in the wake of his former pupil's smashing, upset victory over previously unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto.
The past Saturday’s main event on HBO featuring a welterweight championship bout between Andre Berto and Victor Ortiz - attracted 1.5 million viewers, making it the highest audience for a fight this year on HBO. This audience number is for the live Saturday night airing of the fight on the network.
Fresh from the biggest win of his career, WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz is looking to secure the most lucrative fights possible. Last Saturday at Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, Ortiz (29-2-2, 22KOs) captured the welterweight crown with a twelve round unanimous decision in a "Fight of The Year" battle with previously unbeaten Andre Berto.
Boxing is the theatre of the unexpected and this past weekend we saw two of the game's promising champions upset as WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto and WBO featherweight king Juan Manuel Lopez both fell to brave Mexicans in dramatic fashion. Berto was edged over twelve wild, knockdown-filled rounds by 24-year old Victor Ortiz while miles away on the island of Puerto Rico Lopez would be upended by former champion Orlando Salido, who dropped him hard in the 5th round before finishing him off controversially in the 8th.
WBC Silver welterweight champion and mandatory challenger Selcuk Aydin wants to fight the new WBC world champion Victor Ortiz immediately. "I congratulate Victor Ortiz to his victory and I hope that he is man enough to fight me", says Aydin. "Ortiz should not forget that he only got his shot at the title because I stepped aside from my mandatory right to challenge Berto. Berto knew exactly why he didn’t want to fight me. He knows how strong I am and that I would have beaten him. He thought he would have better chances against Ortiz. Now I can only hope that Ortiz doesn’t run away from me like Berto did over the past two years."
Victor Ortiz is still basking in the glow of his dramatic twelve round decision victory over previously undefeated Andre Berto, a performance that netted him the WBC welterweight championship of the world. Trading knockdowns with Berto to the crowd's delight at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, Ortiz's dogged aggression and cleaner punching paved the way to a unanimous decision in a huge upset in what will go down as one of the year's best fights.
It's hard to understate the electricity created by welterweight hopefuls Victor Ortiz and Andre Berto last night. Squaring off inside of the MGM Grand Theatre of Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, the 24-year old Ortiz pulled off a very unlikely victory in dropping Berto twice on his way towards an action-packed twelve round triumph.
2010 ended without any one fight that was so blow away, so obvious, as the year’s best. There was plenty of good but the candidates for great were in short supply.