Evidently after watching the replay of last Saturday's fight between former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz and undefeated pound-for-pound champion Floyd Mayweather, a fired up Oscar De La Hoya took to his Twitter account to once again share his thoughts on the fight. "Watched the Ortiz fight again and I have to say Ortiz was coming on. it was only the 4th round and Ortiz was letting his hands go," De La Hoya commented, doing his job as Ortiz's promoter to convince fans that the action was just starting to heat up prior to the 4th round knockout.
"He was just warming up putting may weather on the ropes. then the cheap shot came along and the ref was lost looking at someone ringside," De La Hoya would post as he again tried to explain the events leading up to left hook, right hand combination that put Ortiz down for the count. What De La Hoya failed to mention to his followers, however, was the fact that it was actually Ortiz who literally launched himself head-first into Mayweather, prompting referee Joe Cortez to call a halt to the action in order to deduct a point for the blatant and intentional foul prior to the alleged "cheap shot".
Instead, De La Hoya would quickly gloss over Ortiz's blatant disregard for the rules, simply stating, "Ortiz wanted to make it a street fight not an unfair fight," as if his actions throughout the course of fight were perfectly fine. "The head butt was penalized. wasn't it?"
If it's a street fight that Ortiz wanted, then he got exactly what he asked for when, after touching gloves on several occassions, hugging and literally kissing to make up after the foul, Mayweather landed a clean left hook followed by a right hand after the referee instructed both fighters to resume fighting. While Ortiz was more concerned about apologizing for something he had been doing in nearly every round of the fight, Mayweather was more concerned about making him pay for his mistake of leaving his guard down. A quick left hook from Mayweather snapped Ortiz's face to the left, where he looked at the referee in surprise, before the same right hand he had been dominating with all night finished the fight for good.
According to De La Hoya, however, the fight was going a lot differently than and it playing "I'm not trying to sell I'm just saying that at 24 years young victor was going to come on strong. 4 rounds u are just warming up," he continued as he gave his take on Ortiz's performance. "You cannot tell who's going to win just by seeing 4 rounds especially when u have a young strong puncher like victor in front of you."
In fact, De La Hoya would also cite his own performance against Mayweather to backup his argument, suggesting that he himself was "dominating" the undefeated pound-for-pound champion until Mayweather was able to turn the tide in the later rounds. "Wasn't I dominating mayweather? then he came around so my point is you just never know," he added. That being said, despite the fact that the outcome of De La Hoya's showdown with Mayweather was a split decision victory in fair of Floyd, at no time during that fight was he ever "dominating", instead being picked part apart by the same right hand that was landing all night on Ortiz.
"I'm just still fired up because of victor being young and strong and was in amazing shape and was hungry to win," De La Hoya closed with. Given some of De La Hoya's latest tweets, it looks like this conference call that's being held by Ortiz and De La Hoya s is going to be a good one.
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