Whyte is 31 y/o, in the prime of his life and has beaten Parker Rivas Chisora x 2 Browne Wach Helenius Ortiz will be officially 41 y/o but we all know he's a lot older than that, is decades past his prime, is coming off a KO loss and has beaten Jennings Tony Thompson (45 y/0) Scuba Scott Hammer Kauffman Parker>>Jennings Rivas>>Thompson Chisora>>Scuba Scott Browne>>Hammer Wach>>Kauffman And none of those are even close to be honest I don't blame Fat Andy for wanting to ease back in against a lower level senior citizen like Ortiz who is coming off a KO loss after the 12 round schooling at the hands of AJ instead of taking on a young, hungry lion like Whyte
Looking at it objectively, Jennings has never beaten anyone in the top 10 and Parker has, despite being 7 years younger. 21 and 9 being their respective best wins. In 10 years Parker will be a former champion, regardless of what he goes on to do in his career, which at 28 is by no means over. For all Jennings was hyped all he really has is a decent showing against Wlad and wins against the likes of Szpilca who was touted as a name on Wilder's resume until we saw him against Chisora.
Look at the gulf in quality from the opponents Whyte has beaten to Ortiz. That's why Ortiz has a better KO %. Whyte would have a higher KO% if he was fighting the likes Kauffman, Cojanu, M.Scott, Hammer etc instead of Parker, Rivas, Chisora and soon be Povetkin.
That isn't objective at all. Jennings beat Perez, who was in the top ten. You weren't following boxing. Remind me who Parker beat that was in the top ten.
Winning a vacant belt and losing it right away hardly makes you a former champion. Sorry, but you are overrating Parker because you want to believe Dillion Whyte is a top fighter. The truth is Whyte should have lost to Parker anyways and everyone knows it. That's whytes best win. Not impressed
After reading all the comments there are two points that will most probably decide who wins Ortiz vs Ruiz. 1. Ortiz, what does he have left at his age, I don't think the Wilder ko loss took all that much out of him, it was quick not like a debilitating beat down so if he's in condition he can win. 2. Ruiz, here is the 800 pound elephant in the room, if the guy came into his first title defense at 283 pounds what will he weigh for this? If he's in the low 250's I'd say he can take a UD, if he weighs in the 275 range? no. But as a previous poster said, this fight probably won't come off.
Good win, but was he rated? He bottomed out one annual rating, but idk if he was on there heading into the Parker fight. Edit: He got a rating for almost beating Parker.
I can say the same thing. If Ortiz had the chance to fight those fighters. He would depose them as well. Riddle me this. Why did Whyte refuse to fight Ortiz? He said his reason was he was to old, but yet u turn around and fight Povetkin who is the same age lol. Whyte had a chance to fight Ortiz, but ducked that wreck.
