Big things were expected, in Monte Carlo last night, of the latest heavyweight addition to Eddie Hearn’s camp.
Luis ?King Kong? Ortiz, a Cuban heavyweight, had racked up , ahead of the fight, 25 straight wins.
Matched against the former world title contender Malik Scott, the fight was supposed to be the chief support to the main fight, unfortunately it was a bout that won?t last long in the memory.
In fact it?s fair to say that it was, by a wide margin, the worst fight of the night.
Malik appeared to enter the ring with the sole intention of surviving against Ortiz and threw very few punches but, seemingly, intent on holding, running and surviving.
In doing so Malik made Ortiz look ordinary even though, during the course of the twelve boring rounds, Ortiz did put Malik on the canvas three times in all with one knockdown looking to have been long enough to have seen the fight stopped.
After the sound of the bell, at the end of the twelfth round, put everyone out of their misery, Ortiz was given the verdict by the following points? decisions:
? 120 ? 105
? 120 ? 106
and
? 119 ? 106
Ortiz is next scheduled to appear on the undercard of Anthony Joshua?s second defence of his IBF world heavyweight title, in Manchester on 10th December, all we can hope for is that he gets given an opponent that wants to fight rather than stink the arena out like Scott Malik did last night.
Ortiz Beats Malik in an Uninspiring Fight
