Luiz Ortiz is the boogeyman of the heavyweight division

It's not that he's "The boogeyman, that's why nobody wants to fight him!"
He literally has no reward if you fight him. He's also not that great, he was built up to be the boogeyman to be hand fed to Wilder and Wilder ALMOST lost to him and got saved in the 8th round in their first fight

 

Ortiz missed out on his big opportunity when Tex Rickard drew the color line.

 

Ortiz isn't close to #2 mate.

 

The guy actually thinks a win over Chisora is worth more right now than a win over Pulev

 

How this guy is still in the Ring top 10 is joke.

 

Apparently the most skillful HW behind Fury in the last 15 years

 

Haymon came up with a fantastic wheeze,
I'll hype the hell out of Luis Ortiz,
I'll build him up then build some more,
Till all the rubes are certain sure,
That Luiz is the Boogeyman,
That only Deontay Wilder can,
Withstand the Cuban's mighty sting,
And beat him in the boxing ring,
The greatest story ever told,
We'll leave out that he's rather old,
Course I speak of matters now long gone,
For now its twenty twenty one,
And we saw an end to Wilder's story,
At the fists of Tyson Fury,

 

But Pov has actually beat good opponents throughout his career, Ortiz hasn't. That's the difference between them.

 

Povetkin has actually proved himself, though. Pov has beaten like 6 or 7 guys who are/were at least as good as Jennings, better in most cases. Jennings would have had a draw with Mike Perez if it wasn't for a questionable decision by the ref to take a point from Perez. Pov sparked Perez in first round. Now I know that triangle theories don't really work, but goes to show that Jennings isn't very good. Perez was getting into the ring drunk at that time period and Jennings drew with him.

 

Ortiz notable wins : Jennings and Hammer.

Povetkin notable wins: Whyte, Chagaev, perez, Takam, Huck, Byrd, Hughie, Charr, Duhaupas, Chambers, Wach, Hammer and Price.

A huge gulf in terms of quality of resumes.

 

I think Povetkin would have beaten Wilder if they'd met as scheduled. Ortiz could well have as well had he met Wilder a couple of years earlier. He sure had him in some dire straits as it was.

 

It says a lot about the heavyweight division .

 

Not really, more due to Rings poor judgement. Ortiz is 5th but Hunter, Parker Ruiz, Pulev, Usyk, Joyce and Chisora should all certainly be above him on resumes and recent activity included. Probably even Yoka too.

 

Pulev is a joke

 

Del Boy is hardly better