Your reaction to when Floyd clapped Ortiz

He should have never head butted him

 

Protect yourself at all times.

 

Yup

 

I LOL'ed. Guffawed, more like.

Up there with the most satisfying endings to a Victor Ortiz match, along with the Marcos Rene Maidana, Corey Alarcon, Josesito Lopez, and Luis Collazo matches.

 

:deal

 

I was in the arena.

I feared for my safety, being surrounded by nothing but Mexicans who were vehemently cheering on Ortiz (but, surprisingly, didn't give Erik Morales the sort of appreciation I had expected).

I think my reaction went from discussing the headbutting and point deduction with my brother and then raising my hands over my mouth for a second, and then cheering like a madman during the 10 count.

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It was fun times at the MGM.

Was 10 steps away from catching Steward and saying something to him before he marched into the media/press room.

As we were funneling out of the MGM Arena, Jim Lampley was cutting through the crowd of waddling penguins. A group of folks next to me stopped him and asked him what he thought. He got all excited and sounded just like during the broadcast; "I called it a legal blow! I called it a legal blow during the broadcast!" Lampley is a short dude. I'm like 5'8" I swear I was looking down and breathing on top of his head when we walked past... It's weird, I don't know where he was walking. In a hurry to get across the lobby and he was going toward the direction of the trolley/train/transit station.

After the fight my brother spotted David Haye against a wall and almost called Haye "David the Ducker!" but caught himself and said "David the... hey, what's up?"

Good times. Everybody assumed we were Ortiz fans and were shocked when our reactions were some combination of, "Hell naw! That was a dope action packed four rounds. That's what you get for headbutting since round two then going airborne like a rhinoceros for another headbutt."

As we left the arena, a bunch in the crowd started to get loud and chippy back and forth. I silenced them by shouting out: "42 and oh! 42 and oh! 42 and oh!"

 

^ the Mexicans were for Ortiz? :blood

...more than Morales?


Vapid, primadonna, Mexican-American goldbricker Ortiz?

 

Yuuuuup, much to my shock and disappointment.

One aspect was that the consensus in the crowd was that Morales never was more than 1 round ahead and pretty much even the whole time. Everyone was... scared? Maybe... Either way, the reaction of the cut on the big screen was epic, second only to the moment of Mayweather/Ortiz 2:59 of round 4.

One Mexican guy on the phone behind me commented, during Morales-Cano, "Ah, yeah we're waiting for the fight. Some bums are going at it now."

IB, you know what I wanted to do to that guy... and what I still hope happens to him years later.

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Really fun card.

Carson Jones laid a beating on Said Ouali.

And Adonis Stevenson, fresh off his Darnell Boone defeat, scored a pretty dramatic stoppage of a Mayweather-promoted Dion Savage in like, 40 seconds if memory serves.

Josesito vs. Vargas... cool to be able to say I saw both in person and arguably both of their second best performances.

 

Joke of a fight with a joke finish.

 

I was at Staples watching the other half of that card in person and then they put the main event up on the big screen. When he landed that two piece on Ortiz the Mexicans there collectively lost their damn minds. Beers were being hurled toward the ring and a few fights broke out. The last thing I needed was for my girl to get hit with one of those flying beverages and then I gotta get into a brawl with like ten of these little mother****ers, so we left pretty quickly.

 

Phuck them Mexicans they got what they deserved

 

Floyd has used that trick before that fight.... Once w/ Shane Mosley, and even earlier in his career.

 

sucker punch