Luis Ortiz and Zhilei Zhang comparison

But that's an unanswerable question now isn't it? Because he does. Although Zhang without power, who with any confidence would you pick him to beat, excluding tin can record padders? Which I should have included, but I figured people would get the point. He's an easy to outbox 6 round fighter, who if he didn't have cinderblocks for hands as a deterrent, would be comprehensively outworked in the first 6 rounds as well.

 

Seriously, what's wrong with all of you? Why are you all having such an issue separating skills from power? Wilder was always at a skills deficit, and was comprehensively outboxed in almost every important match he'd had up to that point, so facing the more skilled fighter was nothing new, but Haymon knew he had the power to bail himself out of sticky situations. So it was well worth the gamble.

Ortiz's chin is his biggest determent, but without being dropped thrice, he would have certainly outpoint Andy Ruiz Jr. He dominated Jennings, Scott, Thompson, Allen, Hammer and Kaufman. If he can avoid being dropped or KO'd, he outboxes his opponents with ease. Whereas with Zhang, if his opponents can avoid being dropped or KO'd, they outbox him with relative ease. Sure, being outboxed by Parker isn't a big deal, but being outboxed by Jerry Forrest is, and while he arguably nicked the Hrgovic match with the knockdown, he was being schooled by Filip in several of the later rounds, and would have lost several more, if he hadn't managed to clip and rock him once in a few other rounds. Which was usually the only success he'd have in those particular rounds. Zhang is a southpaw Jermell Charlo. Luis Ortiz is a southpaw Tony Harrison.

 

Is that why he loses almost every round he isn't dropping someone in?

 

Yeah, I know. But I felt like belaboring my point.