Luis Ortiz vows to knock out Wilder

40-year-old heavyweight contender Luis “King Kong” Ortiz showed the media some of what he has in store for WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder before their PPV rematch on November 23 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

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Luis Ortiz: “I don’t know if Deontay will be improved for this fight, but I will definitely be an even better version of myself on November 23. If I get that opportunity like I got in the last fight, I’m not going to stop punching until it’s over. I’m going to seek and destroy.

“Our mantra is, he quits, they quit for him, you make him quit, or you knock him out. Any of those four is us winning.

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this fight is going to end in a knockout. Either I’m knocking him out, or he’s knocking me out…but he’s not knocking me out.”

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  • Oh boy, how many times in the boxing world have we heard someone is vowing to knock someone out? Be careful what you wish for! While I admire Ortiz’s confidence in making his vow, but this cliché gets old after a while! I wish boxers and their promotors would get more creative in how they make their “same old” statements to the media to promote excitement in a fight! Maybe Ortiz should tell the media he is going to let it all hang all out for the sake of his aging boxing career in hopes of landing a great counter left hook and level the playing field in Wilder’s arsenal! I like that better!

    • Yeah, most pre-fight talk is lame nowadays.

      They had better lines in the past. My favorite was Tyson’s, who threatened to eat Lennox’s children :))

      • No, check out Tyson’s Interview after he punched Mitch “Blood” Green in the eye! That was the best!

  • 40 today is not the same as 40 was 20 years ago, with that Said Wilder has had one rematch and look at that fight if that is any indicator.

    Stiverne put up a great fight when the two fought for the vacant WBC however in the rematch we learned Wilder can adjust and make corrections he blew Stiverne out easily.

    Here we have another rematch the difference is Ortiz is a hungry fighter unlike Stiverne and that might make for another great fight but if Wilder has been in the lab working we will likely see another stoppage maybe a round or two earlier.

    With that said we have not seen Wilder in a real fight since the Fury fight, sure he blew out Breezeale but whats that to brag about?

    Anyhow the point being we dont know how Wilder is going to react when he finds himself in another fight will he be glove shy will he end up looking vulnerable? Fury did in his last fight so its quite possible that Wilder looks a little un easy and Ortiz is not the kind of guy you want in front of you if your un easy.

    with all that said Wilder TKO 5

  • This fight will be fun while it lasts. The fighter I’d most like to see Wilder against is Usyk.

  • JUST TRASH TALK FROM LOUIS .. HE WILL BE GOING TO SLEEP IN 4 ROUNDS.. JUST LIKE THE LAST TIME

    • Some people say he was sparring Teofilo Stevenson, before Teofilo went to Munich for the gold medal

  • Either could get knocked out, Wilder already proved that he can knock out Ortiz, and although Wilder has never been knocked down or Out as a pro, he does get hit, and if he gets hit with a good punch, then it can go the other way, with Wilder being stopped

  • Kind a paradox in here “Either I’m knocking him out, or he’s knocking me out…but he’s not knocking me out.” …..I was wondering…..how this man knows Wilder will not flatten him again?
    I love this guy, and I respect him too, but I see only one end in here: Wilder by a brutal early knockout .

  • This fight will have the same scenario as the 1st fight. And it APPEARS to me after seeing Wilder in several of his last fights, he is finally gaining some mechanics ( thanks in part to Breland). The one thing that is for sure, his jab is very strong, and those shots he throws from the outfield could stop a charging Rhino. Another fact that is very real, he can stop anyone even in the 12 th round. Something that the real bangers were not able to do (Liston, Foreman, Tyson) besides Marciano. I still believe he lost to Fury, but I’m starting to think that his power makes up for any of his liabilities. Same results as their 1st fight, only Wilder stops him sooner in this one.

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