Mayweather vs. Ortiz: Oscar De La Hoya and Bob Arum Disappointed By Unsportsmanlike Behavior

But I can’t believe how little people care about what Ortiz did, or when they do acknowledge it they rationalize it with the fact that he was deducted a point. I may not have watched that many boxing fights, but damn that was blatant. And if your rationale is that it’s okay because even though it wasn’t within the rules, he was punished… Well what Floyd did was within the rules, so apparently everyone is just mad because he can’t be punished for it. Let me simply, maturely say…. Waaahhhhh.

Arum shouldn’t be allowed to talk. Guy is ruining great fights for everyone by not letting Pacquiao go to 150 to fight Sergio Martinez, a guy who has been calling Manny out for a while now. Instead, we got Pacquiao against a bunch of guys who had no business being in the same ring as him. It’s pathetic. I just hate Arum. I really do. He annoys the crap out of me.

That’s not something that any of the fighters that I had in the eighties would do

Arum must have forgotten how Duran won his lightweight title?

If anything we might see a bit less bro hugs for some time (at least in boxing) and we can be thankful to Mayweather for it. You can bro hug a bro if you want, not an opponent, or he might just do this to you and get away with it.

Money Man will toast Ortiz for rounds to come instead of having a quick finish like he did.

Leave it to PBF to find a way to make this match so talked about, kudos to his promoting skills.

Man, Mayweather could have come across with a quick right elbow as Ortiz was head-butting him, and ended the fight right there… Should have grabbed the back of Ortiz’ head with his left glove and smashed his face with the hard right elbow. Fight fucking over.

Iam glad Mayweather punched the dude, I hate glove tapping, hugging, high fives,whatever once the fight is on. If Floyd hugged back and then slip a punch in, I would have seen that as dirty fighting, but Floyd did not want any part of that hug.

Once the fight is on one fighter should not be force to delay because the other dude wants to tap gloves,hug or whatever else.

just want to hate on the dude thats al

I can’t defend Ortiz. I wanted him to win, I’ve been following the kid for awhile and this happened made me wanna smack fiyah out of him.

I didn’t see the ref let anyone know that the fight started. Then he turned to the timekeeper. It’s hard fo rme to sit here and beleive that Joe Cortez said something to restart the fight especially with the confusion. Mayweather took the oportunity and took him out. Cause that’s what champions do and all these groupies will agree.

That doesn’t mean this fight wasn’t wierd as a whole. Everyone is at fault. I would’ve accepted Mayweather if he just beat him without any cheap shots.

And seriously….stop asking for Pacqiuao vs Mayweather. I’m done pleading for it. Let me know when they sign a contract. Until then, Nonito Donaire, Sergio Martinez, and Canelo Alvarez are my go to guys.

This ain’t one of them.

Ortiz is an idiot and Mayweather did what the referee should have done after the blatant intentional headbutt, he ended the fight.

that mayweather and paul daley train together. daley has a lot turn learn, atleast he sounds cooler.

that’s what happens when you blatantly throw illegal headbutts. And can we PLEASE stop with the Mayweather is ducking Manny bs? Didn’t Mayweather say that he’d gladly fight Manny as long as Manny signed up for Olympic style drug testing? Manny supposedly declined because they could take his blood up to two weeks before the fight and he felt that he’d be too weak to compete at his best :/ I’d think that 336 hours would be enough time for you to recover whatever blood that you lost during a blood test.

mayweather constantly makes up execuses or guidelines to fight manny, i consider that ducking he should just fight him. and as for the sucker punch it was very unsportsmanlike but as much as it was unsportsmanlike it was very legal

Arum was the guy that called MMA fans skin heads right? This is the guy that’s known to be an out and out racist?

…I box at a gym full of mostly amateurs with a few pros sprinkled on top. The general consensus is 1) What Floyd did was completely legit & 2)We would all do the same thing ourselves.
All of you guys who are commenting about ‘unsportsmanlike behaviour’ are obviously not familiar with a few of boxing’s maxims. In a fight, you fight fire with fire. If you get hit with an illegal blow, on numerous occasions, and the ref isn’t protecting you, you have to take matters into your own hands. It happens all the time in boxing. Also you are taught from the day you start sparring ‘PYAAT’.
Essentially you keep your hands up at all times and never take your eyes off your opponent. In throwing that blatant headbutt Ortiz must have known retribution in some form was coming, you could see in Floyd’s demeanor, in his eyes. He wasn’t a happy bunny.
At the end of the day Floyd did what most other boxers would do. He’s done it before (the Mosley fight) and given the chance he will do it again. It was legit and that is the end of the story.

Does Bob Arum know anything about the boxers that he promotes? Pacquiao has blatantly admitted in the past that he had put weights in his pockets to reach the 105lb limit when he was 16 so im not sure that argument made any sense whatsoever or helped reinforce anyone’s belief in the fact that Manny gained the weight naturally.

But like Anton said, Grain of salt.