Mass Hypnosis at Wilder-Ortiz - Who Remember Wilder Going Down in the 7th?

I saw a couple people on Twitter and on this message board last night say "Ortiz had Wilder down" or "Wilder got off the floor" ... and I corrected them.

And I was on Youtube today and I saw Chris Arreola being interviewed after the fight and he said something to the effect that "I didn't think Ortiz would knock Wilder down. But we got to give Wilder a lot of credit. He got up and survived that round." (Go to around the 50 second mark)

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I heard an interview with Eddie Hearn this morning where he says Ortiz "Obviously knocked down Wilder midway through the fight." (He says it around the 1:40 mark)

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Deontay Wilder didn't go down in the seventh round or any round last night.

Ortiz was on the floor a lot. He went down in the second, ruled a slip. He was floored three times. He was also pushed down once before the final two knockdowns in the 10th.

But Deontay Wilder never took a knee, was never knocked down and never had to get off the floor. There was no standing eight. His knee didn't graze the floor. His butt didn't hit the floor.

His body never came close to going down.

I think a lot of people EXPECTED him to go down, or were HOPING he'd go down ... but he just got rocked.

I just found that really peculiar.

To set the record straight, though, Deontay Wilder never went down in round seven. (Or any round.)

It never happened, even if some people's brains thought it did.

 

Was he out on his feet? He looked like he was reeling in there. But the moment the bell rang, Wilder walked back to his corner and sat down.

He didn't stagger back to his corner at the end of the round. Nobody ran over and helped him back to his corner. He just walked over and sat down.

Later he said he wasn't hurt so much as Ortiz's punches were knocking him off balance every time they landed at the end of that round, which sounds like an excuse, but the moment Ortiz stopped punching, Wilder stopped reeling and just walked back to his corner.

I don't think he was any more hurt than Ortiz was after the first knockdown in round five and he walked back to his corner.

And Wilder was outweighed and he has thin legs. Is it inconceivable that Ortiz's blows were shoving him back and forth off balance, like he claimed?

People WANTED Wilder to be out on his feet. They wanted him to go down.

But the film of him walking back to his corner doesn't support that he was "out on his feet."