After the fight last night I didn't know what to say. I was left with a bad taste in my mouth. Ortiz ****ed up. He did the wrong thing, but he knew it right away, and was apologizing for it, as he authentically knew he ****ed up and played unfair. He got frustrated and resorted to a dirty tactic. Not the first time this has happened in boxing. Later he went over-board with the apologies, and was very apologetic all around as Larry said, especially considering the circumstances. Larry Merchant asked the question everybody wanted answered. Floyd may have gotten all bent out of shape about it, because he clearly knew what he did was cheap, and he couldn't take the heat for it. Larry doesn't **** around, and kept the pressure up and Floyd snapped since he couldn't handle the criticism for his behavior. Larry KO1 Floyd. That said... is that how a champion should act? Throwing a sucker punch at your opponent when he is apologizing to you? How big of a piece of **** do you have to be? Was it legal, yes. Sportsman like, especially at this level of the sport? **** no. Floyd is a chump, not a man. Men don't behave in such ways. :deal
You could say what comes around goes around. But under these circumstances, Floyd went over-board. A fighter on his level shouldn't be doing cheap street **** like that. Not professional, not honorable, not fan friendly, disrespectful to the fans and his opponent, cheap thug like bull****. But I guess I just summarized FMJ.
No. You say, "Protect yourself at all times." and "Don't intentionally foul." There was no cheap shot. There was a dumb kid, cheating, then feeling bad, and trying to hug it out AFTER the ref said "Let's Go!" That chump Ortiz even threw a punch on the break after he busted Mayweathers' lip! You don't know the meaning of honorable or street! :bart
True. Protect yourself at all times. Ortiz takes a lot of blame for what happened, if not most of it. This is true, and I'm not denying it. But Floyd trumped both of those things and the bottom line is he sucker punched and apologizing opponent to win a world title. He took a bum shot. True champions and professional boxers should not, and most do not conduct themselves in this manner. Was it legal. Yes. But that doesn't make it right. Regardless of the head-butt. I guess it all depends on your upbringing and what you were taught as a kid, with which crowd you stand with on this one. I was taught and believe that this kind of behavior is cheap, and dishonorable. And that is exactly what it was. His opponent was in the middle of apologizing to him, and instead of continuing the fight fairly, being the better man, Floyd took a cheap bum shot at him. Taking bum shots is not how men act. Same goes with hitting when someones down for example.
Merchant is condescending in his post-fight interviews , the winner is caught up in the joyous culmination of months of preparation leading to victory and Merchant throws cold water on the celebration by tasteless questions in a manner that is off-putting and dis-respectful . In the 4th round Ortiz used head-butts three times , he was warned for the first one , the ref missed the second one and the third one connected ... no wonder Floyd went for the KO ! Completely legal and Ortiz deserved it .
If Floyd had done this on a normal break, then yes, legal but wrong. However, he did it after a blatant intentional headbutt (and not just one). Completely justifiable and right.
