The Fight Was Fixed

In quite possibly one of the most bizarre boxing events I have ever seen. Ortiz catches Floyd with a decent right hook, flurries Floyd near the ropes, and Ortiz than proceeds to headbutt Floyd blatantly like a ram as if someone pushed headbutt on their xbox controller in Fight Night. Ortiz then, embarrassed like a child after knowingly doing what was wrong, precedes to kiss Floyd on the cheek. Then, they lightly touch gloves and move to the center of the ring. Then, Ortiz looks away from Floyd with his arms extended for a duration of 3-5 to seconds while walking to apologize to Floyd. Floyd snarls like he did in his WWE debut against Big Show, and unleashes a left hook right hand combination. Immediately before the punch, Ortiz is looking away to his right with Cortez, like an absolute zombie looking away to his left. Everyone is literally looking away from Floyd. WTF! Only Cortez glimpses the horror with his shell-shocked face to see a right hand land squarely on Ortiz.

I don't honestly believe it was enough for Ortiz to be knocked out. It was harder then when Floyd did the same to Mosley after Mosley wanted to touch gloves... of course Mosley was fine. At any rate, the right hand Berto landed on Ortiz seemed far more deadly, especially considering Berto's punching power. Ortiz crawls around on the floor weirdly, Tyson-esque against Douglas. Immediately when he gets counted out he's smiling. He doesn't look like a fighter who got knocked out. He's smiling, almost in a "Aww shucks" matter. Almost in a "Was my KOlbelievable." Floyd hasn't KOed an opponent since Ricky Hatton went into the turnbuckle. And even then the fighter wasn't out. The fighter got up, wobbled back after shots and the fight was stopped. Marquez said he was surprised by how light of a puncher Floyd Mayweather was. And this is an Ortiz that outweighed Floyd by 15 pounds. I can't remember the last time Floyd lights out an opponent. Regardless whether or not he was looking away. Why was he looking away, anyway?

Ortiz after the entire thing smiles as if nothing bad really happened. As if he has no real reason to not be pissed. I guess this guy really doesn't care. His interview is completely odd. His voice is at a high inflection, indicating that he's probably being dishonest. He says Floyd pushed him and so he headbutted him and that it looks intentional but it really wasn't intentional. Basically, the guy is just talking out of his ass. Floyd didn't push him. No one is calling anyone out on anything. He says he was looking at the ref when Floyd hit him. He wasn't, he was looking to his right and once Floyd hit him his eyes veered toward Cortez.

Floyd's interview with Merchant is almost as weird. Floyd basically blows up at Merchant for never giving him a fair shake. Merchant says if he was 50 years younger he would've kicked his ass. Wow, if this couldn't seem even seem more set up like the WWF.

And after all this. Ortiz is smiling like a kid that knows something we don't. Like a kid that just got a red bicycle from his father that DIDN'T leave. Ortiz and Floyd congratulate and Ortiz seems totally unbothered or unaffected. He's high fiving Floyd's team, smiling, talking about how the fans wanted to see something "fun" and he thinks they got that. What the ****? We wanted to see something fun. What is this chucky cheese? We wanted to see a good boxing fight. Danny Garcia is in the background grinning the entire time as if he just sold his soul to the devil for 100 million dollars. It's all so odd and none of it adds up.

Either we say one of the most bizarre things ever in boxing. A headbutt, from a truly mentally weak Ortiz after literally just catching Floyd with a decent right hook. Okay, his flurries were starting to miss and maybe that frustrated him. So Ortiz, this mental midget gets so frustrated he headbutts Floyd in a video game blatant way. Kissed Floyd on the cheek "Sorry bro." Touches gloves, and then proceeds to blindly try and hug him while Floyd sets up a 1-2 combination with Cortez conveniently looking away... OR this was setup by Floyd, Ortiz, and perhaps Cortez. The headbutt was a signal to set up the apology. The looking away from both Ortez and Cortez for oddly extended periods of time all occured for to Floyd to set up his left right combination were all perfectly placed for Ortiz to get knocked out. Ortiz stumbles like he's trying to get up but can't. Then once it's over its all huggy, kissy, grinning, and smiling. Maybe Ortiz got paid a little extra from Floyd so Floyd can preserve his 0 and make tons of cash only to retire again. Win win for everyone. Ortiz doesn't look too bad because he got cheap shotted, and Floyd gets paid, gets a win, and doesn't care about the extra damage to his already unfixable image.

Maybe this all sounds crazy. Maybe I've gone off the deep end. I've never ever thought a fight was set up or fixed in a regard like this. Nothing outside of crooked judging. But something didn't look right. This looked odd. It looked choreographed.

Here's one thing I can guarantee. Floyd will never ever ever face Pacquaio. He never will. And he is probably going to retire once again after we've all been had, and probably will never return again this time. Either way, all of this is a complete black eye to the sport of boxing. Once again...

 

Not at all but I can understand why someone would think that.

I would owe up if I was wrong. Hell I was about Froch-Abraham and I did.

What do I have to owe up anything? Even if was legit the bout basically ended prematurely. Ortiz clearly was more of a threat than Marquez and Mosley.

You can't guarantee ****. Berto landed square on him and Ortiz got up.

Look, maybe I'm crazy. Totally off base, but you can not tell me this **** didn't look like a WWF event. You can't. That it didn't look weird that nobody seemed to be upset or care. It seemed stage I'm sorry. What kid smiles 5 seconds after being counted out.