Mad how we all have same wacky sense of humour,have to admit it was a little intimidating joining this place.
Typical of this place for folk to go over the top,in reality this would of been round the time of the Cuban missile crisis?
Indeed. I heard they had planned to include a rematch during the moon landing seven years later but Ortiz' arthritis was so bad by then he couldn't get into the space suit....
The Smithsonian have an exhibit next month on the poetry of the 19th century. As one would expect most of it concerns Ortiz: The caveman warily scanned the trees Was it a mammoth or Luis Ortiz, Either were deadly but nothing more than, The dangerous fists of the wily Cuban, The Ancient Egyptian stood by the Sphinx, Scanned the horizon as slowly he thinks, Does that man in the distance mean troubles in store, From the look of his stance he's a Cuban southpaw, Napoleon's army was broke on the field, The battle went well till their fate had been sealed, By a shuffling man in a boxing costume, Twas old Luis Ortiz that brought on their doom, And this one passed down from ages past: When Columbus sailed the ocean blue, Traveling where few men would dare, One thing gave him courage when peril grew large, Luis Ortiz was there, When the great fire burned through London Town, From afar men stopped to wonder and stare, As the fires went out they were quick to agree, Luis Ortiz was there, And now carbon dating allows us to know, The age of the most ancient rocks, Yet older than all is that legend we know, As that Cuban that knows how to box,
Impressive they let him keep an exotic like Ortiz back in those days; I figured they would've given him a more localized moniker like Old Chocolate Johnson.
Cuban's scare the **** out of time. See Yoel Romero and his handy dandy 145 year old back flip. https://media1.giphy.com/media/l2Jh...90b76115cdb3dc4542e49707781892c&rid=giphy.gif