  DEBUNKING LIES AND FALSE CLAIMS IN MAYWEATHER-ORTIZ By Reni M. Valenzuela
Ten major points to debunk ten major lies and false
claims surrounding the just concluded
Mayweather-Ortiz
boxing farce or “sitcom.”
To light up the torch, here’s the taper:
First
is that
the boxing rule “guard yourself at all times” should be strictly invoked
under normal circumstances in all fights,
but
certainly not when the referee is inept officiating the bout especially
if the situation is chaotic and extraordinarily tense and confusing as
the fourth round during and after the head-butting incident in the
Mayweather-Ortiz “Star Power” match up last September 17..
Second
is Floyd Mayweather, Jr.”s sucker punch was illegal.
No provision in the boxing “constitution”
if applied correctly will support its
“legality” to make it appear
legitimate and acceptable. There is always
an exception to the rule and the “sucker punch” was no exception to the
exception to the rule.
One just needs to open his eyes or simply
take the veil off.
Third
is there was no
consensus among the right-thinking sports aficionados that the sucker
punch was legal.
History will bear its controversy to be
unending if it is not resolved in the enlightened judgment.
Right-thinking fans still insist it was
illegal and therefore the judges’ decision to declare Mayweather the
winner is null and void.
Fourth
is Victor Ortiz
doesn’t deserve the sucker punch he got from
Mayweather as some fanatics are suggesting because he was punished
already with a point deduction which was all he deserved for hitting
Mayweather with the head butt.
The flagrant head butt is no justification
to Money Floyd’s ring tantrum.
What’s the point defending the sucker punch
by pointing out the head butt as a justification?
Fifth
is
Money Floyd could have felt the power of an
Ortiz punch otherwise he would have not considered doing what he did
during the break.
Thus he could have been seriously threatened
with the risk of losing
which led him or made him decide to panic.
Furthermore, some pundits saying Mayweather need not do “it” because he could have
easily won the fight by points is mere bias hypothetical jutting brought
about by Mayweather image-making.
Sixth
is
Ortiz was very much in the fight up to the bizarre
round four and it is
not
far-fetched that Vicious Ortiz could be on his way to knocking out Money
Floyd as both of his power-laden left and quick right hands were
successful penetrating the head of the shoulder-rolling defensive boxer.
Seventh
is Mayweather
didn’t prove to be the better boxer
against
Orttiz and wasn’t able to grab the Welterweight belt from the champion
who ripped the cunning in a flurry of solid punches in a couple of
rounds.
Mayweather was simply and foolishly declared
the “legal winner” and
was
handed the leather
symbol to wrap around his waist.
Hence all is meaningless
about the silly outcome
of that fight.
Eighth
is
referee
Joe Cortez was a huge blunder.
He failed to give a signal understandable
enough for both fighters to resume the fight during the head-butting
incident in the fourth round.
Note that Cortez was talking to some ring
officials (which added to the confusion) when the sucker punch took
place and it’s ridiculous that the “referee” didn’t even see the initial
“knockout blow” coming.
It was either due to unclear or mixed signals from Cortez (unless the whole show was scripted to “sucker” the fight fans further in another drama of “rematch” in the future) . Hence it took awhile for Mayweather to unleash his “illegal” punches to the head of Ortiz. And the reason being is that Mayweather appeared to be in doubt if the fight was already “called in” and that Mayweather himself, along with Ortiz was also waiting for further words from the referee.
Ninth
is
what
Mayweather did in any case hitting Ortiz during the “break” or break
violates
all codes of ethics, decency, propriety and sportsmanship there is in
every sports book.
Hence they were lucidly malicious and
intentional sucker punches of Mayweather that shocked Ortiz.
But what is even more shocking and “sucking”
is that certain self-blind-folded eyes
argued they were not. Call the sucker punch “legal” a million times, but I
will call it only once, it was wrong.
Tenth
is much
of the boxing world is in darkness nowadays.
Notably the part where Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
is involved as
he leaves many people “groping” again. And
the recently concluded teeth-gnashing,
comedy-drama is just another ugly
attestation to the sad plight of the sport wherein the innocent fight
fans have always been at the “receiving end.”
We thus far
have come to three of other important
“life-saving” decisions boxing needs to make as a result of Mayweather-Ortiz:
Decision 1 -
Larry
Merchant wins while Cortez loses when he badly lost control of the
“fight” or was perfectly in command of the drama, and therefore should
retire.
Decision 2
--
It should be a resounding "no" to the Mayweather-Ortiz
rematch just in case some wily enigmatic personalities will hatch the
moronic idea.
Decision 3 - No Mayweather fight would (and should)
make
sense to sensible fight fans except the fight of all fights – the
Pacquiao-Mayweather.
You are cornered Money
Floyd, no way to run, hide and dodge.
Arum was the big winner in Pacquiao-Mosley Now comes the blame game in Pacquiao-Mosley Mayweather-Ortiz an insult to boxing fans Time for Manny & Floyd to dance De La Hoya: Drugs, infidelity & solution Pacquiao wins, but Arum wins big Mayweather leaves us hanging with lies, false assurances Pacquiao-Marquez: Exciting or boring? Silent protest over Floyd Mayweather Jr. Righteous indignation in boxing
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