Some tasty prices on the upsets tonight with BJ Flores 6/1 to defeat Bellew, and Derry Mathews 7/2 to defeat Campbell. Might stick a couple of pound of the underdog double.
Luis Ortiz vs David Allen this Saturday in an 8 round fight, I think we all know that Dave Allen has no chance but with it only being 8 rounds and many people have claimed how good a chin Allen has (Peter Fury inparticular) and he displayed this against Whyte, I think a 5/2 shot on Ortiz via points is a decent bet. Anybody else agree?
allen is a plodder, not capable of running like cowardly malik scott, and ortiz does hit hard. however ortiz isnt all to be cracked up to be and if allen can keep it tight i believe is durable and strong, he can go the distance, but he takes to long to land. so ortiz should win
I like Allen but there's no way he goes the distance in this fight. He can't outbox Ortiz or fight on the back foot like Scott so he's in trouble. If you're gonna stand and actually try have a scrap with Ortiz you're getting banged out as shown in the Bryant Jennings fight and Jennings is levels above Allen. Ortiz between rounds 1-3
Luis ortiz is the goods. A bit one paced...but skills up there to match anyone in the current heavyweight division. Pretty poor against malik who came to survive...but he did still dominate and win the fight easily. Allens on a hiding to nothing here. Especially with the criticism given to ortiz after the malik fight. Wont really see the best of ortiz tho till he goes in against someone who,s not just there to survive. Allen wont have the movement to survive. He also looks a bit game...pretty much your downfall against ortiz.
Possible that Ortiz got old overnight vs Scuba. Young Dave is certainly durable and fresh albeit without any real offensive weapons but shot guys are not invulnerable.
Think people are being a bit harsh on ortiz over the malik fight. At the end of the day it ended up something like 120 to 105 to ortiz with three knockdowns in his favour. Malik was 38 and 2 going into the fight. He also came just to survive. Thats not a man thats got old overnight. A lot are looking into wilder ko ing him in one...but theres different ways to skin a cat. Wilder a lot of the time goes for it from the off whereas ortiz is a lot more conservative in his approach. Actually think the allen fight is a borderline dangerous fight to make. Hes had something like 10 fights. No real amatuer experience either. And worst of all he can take a punch also had depression problems after the whyte defeat. Shouldnt be in the ring with ortiz.
Can't believe the amount of people writing off Ortiz now. You guys have short memories. He will **** Dave Allen up. This won't go long.
Yeah that was my thinking, Ref will be aware of how much of a mismatch it is & wont need much of an excuse to jump in and save Allen from a one sided beat down.