Victor Ortiz
(29-4-2, 22 KO’s) has an important fight coming up next month on January 30th
against Luis Collazo (34-5, 17 KO’s) at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New
York, USA. This is a tune-up bout for Ortiz scheduled for 10 rounds and not 12.
Like his last fight a year and a half ago against Lopez, Ortiz is expected to
win this one against Luis Collazo.
The worry here is
that if Ortiz can’t beat Luis Collazo, and if he gets beaten or if he quits yet
again, for whatever reason, his boxing career may be pretty much done as far as
him being a relevant fighter.
Ortiz quit against
Lopez, Maidana and someone say in his fight against Lamont Peterson when faced
with adversity. Victor Ortiz suffered a broken jaw in the Lopez fight last year
in June. But Ortiz was having problems in that fight long before his jaw was broken,
as he was getting nailed frequently by Lopez with silly shots that he shouldn’t
have been getting hit with. The jaw injury took 8 months to heal, and Ortiz
could have returned to the ring in 2013 to fight, but instead he chose to be in
a movie by Sylvester Stallone and take the entire year off from boxing. That
right there makes you question Ortiz’s desire and love of the sport.
If he’s going to
be taking a year off from boxing in the prime of his career, it might not be
the sport for him. Floyd. can do that kid of thing because he’s a huge talent,
but Ortiz is just a welterweight contender still trying to find his place in
the division. For him to take off a year, it’s not a smart thing to do, and I
wouldn’t expect him to be able to quickly get back to the level where he was
before.
Ortiz says he
wants to get the big fights against the likes of Floy Mayweather Jr. and Saul Alvarez.
He was already whipped by Mayweather in a 4th round TKO loss in September of
2011, so that door is probably permanently closed no matter what Ortiz does in
the next year or two. But he can get some good fights if he stays active and
beats some relevant fighters. There’s talk that Ortiz could face Garcia in 2014
if he beats Luis Collazo and looks impressive in doing so. If Victor Ortiz struggles, gets knocked down or
quits in the Collazo fight, then you can forget about him fighting Garcia. That’s
why the Collazo fight is so important for Danny Garcia. He has to win and look good in this
fight, because he can’t afford anymore slip ups at this point.
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