"Ortiz gave his all in the first fight but came up short, and at 40, I cannot see him replicating another great effort. Right hands land on southpaws, and Wilder's will land early. Wilder ends the fight in the first round." Knowing Atlas' track record with predicting fights you think this will be a harder fight for Wilder than we anticipate??
ortiz will knock wilder out in 3, he most likely will be playing the defensive counter punching game and wait for that right counter hook that opened the wilder woozy exchange in round 7.
Most of you forget that Ortiz was winning the first fight and the referee was protecting Wilder from the knock out. This time Ortiz has a professional team behind him and he looks better. For me it’s a 50-50 fight, Ortiz is 5/1 so I might gonna put money on Ortiz. Atlas is only good at bashing the judges, he is the worst in fight predictions.
I think wilder has an easier job in beating both Ortiz and fury in the rematch than they do him wilder ko Ortiz in 2 Wilder ko fury in 6
Ortiz is old. He was old for the first match. He can win but I think he needs to press it in the early rounds. wilder I’d it goes past 8 is a Going to win
I think ESPN had teddy pick the underdog to hype fights Since having his podcast his picks are usually on the money
Atlas also said Wallin knocked out one of his opponents with a phantom punch he showed on his channel that they were showing as it was some farce fight for fury. What Teddy didn't do is look at the body shots that actually crumbled his opponent. That's one of many mistakes he always makes and gets as much wrong as right . This one he has wrong. Teddy forgot to check how long Stiverne was out of the ring for which was 2 years in the Wilder rematch . Hes basing that on the Stiverne fight but didn't bother to look up Wilder fought a guy outside the ring for 2 years not an active one. And I think hes also looking at a Breazeale who doesn't have the best defense. Ortiz is both defensive and offensive sound with a style that Wilder cannot rush into, Don't listen to teddy on this one bc the first round is definatley the measuring stick where both will have to gage in such a fight again.
Ok, until now I thought Wilder was a solid favorite. The Teddy jinx changes everything. Wilder might get knocked out.
It's going to be stiverne 2 all over again. Hope to god I'm wrong though would love nothing more than to see ortiz smash this bum.