With the upcoming fight between Floyd 'money' Mayweather and 'vicious' Victor Ortiz less than two months away I thought I would bring some videos and some thoughts on the fight. The press confrences have been held and training has begun. Two things to bear in mind with this fight are that Mayweather has not fought since May 2010, and will step into the ring after 16 months off. Ortiz on the other hand is coming off a win over Andre Berto where he took Bertos WBC belt.
Here are both the New York and LA press conferences.
I know what your thinking, Mayweather does appear to be much calmer, he did little to no smack talking at all. Compared to the build up of his previous fights a nun would have caused more of a stir. Mayweather in my opinion is still the pound for pound best fighter in the world, and I do think he would beat Pacquiao! The thing with Mayweather is, that even though he's not smack talking at all he's still inside the head of his oponent. As you could see Ortiz furious that the only thing that people care about is Mayweather Pacquiao. That will continue to work in Mayweather favour until that paticular fight happens, any fight will be overshadowed and therefore Mayweather's opponent will be too.
Mayweather threw many subtle psychological jabs at Ortiz, looking past him on many occasions. Mayweather continued to bang home the point of Ortiz's one loss where as Mayweather with his 41 - 0 record can never have that thrown at him. Another hit was earning power, he wouldn't be Money Mayweather if he couldn't make some! "I'm gonna make a ton of money, Ortiz is gonna make some" as far as financially and psychologically Ortiz isn't in this fight!
HBO Face Off promo.
The full episode is out tonight! and I will bring you that as soon as I can.
Ortiz said if Mayweather boxed he too will box, if he banged he will bang! It safe to say that Mayweather's wizardy even after 16 months will be far too good for Ortiz to consider boxing him. It is not an option for Ortiz. As far as banging, we saw against Shane Moseley that Mayweather can bang with the best by feeding Moseley right hands all night!
It will be interesting to see how good Mayweather is after the lay off, wether time has slowed his brilliance. Even if it has he will be a class above Ortiz. This fight will be good for Mayweather a good sparring session with a southpaw ready for Pacquiao next!
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