Update: Neither Luis Nery or Julio Ceja made weight. The Nery-Rodriguez WBC eliminator was subsequently canceled!
By Miguel Maravilla at the scale
Video: Przemek Garczarczyk
Deontay Wilder 219.5 vs. Luis Ortiz 236.5
(WBC heavyweight title)
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Leo Santa Cruz 129.5 vs. Miguel Flores 130
(WBA super featherweight “super” title)
Brandon Figueroa 122 vs. Julio Ceja 126.5
(WBA super bantamweight title)
Ceja FOUR POUNDS + heavy
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Luis Nery 119 vs. Manny Rodriguez 118
(WBC bantamweight silver title)
Nery has two hours to lose one pound.
Leduan Barthelemy 127 vs Eduardo Ramirez 126.5
Viktor Slavinksyi 127.5 vs Rigoberto Hermosillo 127
Arnold Alejandro 129.5 vs Jhon Gemino 129.5
Ángel Alejandro 130.5 vs Mark Yap 132
Omar Juarez 142.5 vs Kevin Shacks 141
Jose Manuel Gomez 130 vs Daniel Placeres 129.5
Marsellos Wilder 197 vs Dustin Long 198.5
Shin Mondragón 121 vs Juan Centeno 122
Vito Mielnicki 147 vs Marklin Bailey 143.5
Venue: MGM Grand, Las Vegas
Promoter: TGB Promotions
TV: PPV
About 220, perfect weight for Wilder, 215 and lower does not work for him. Going to be powerful, can see a 2nd round KO for Wilder, but hoping fight goes till middle rounds at least to see if Ortiz still has something left in him. Rooting for Ortiz nevertheless.
Henry: i hear ya man. I hope Ortiz can really push the pace. Rooting for Ortiz but Wilders power is still the force to bot reackon with. Either way, we are all the winners to get to see this fight AGAIN!!
Why are you two rooting for Ortiz? Curious. I love Wilder’s story.
It’s getting harder to root for Wilder. Yes, his Olympic story was inspiring and he was easy to support early in his career. But in recent years he has become supremely arrogant and, at times, extremely disrespectful to his opponents. He even threatened to “kill” one of them in the ring. That’s not the type of champion a traditionalist boxing fan can support.
But you can support Mike Tyson for saying the same thing & worse?
Dynamite, I like both Wilder and Ortiz. Wilder is the most dangerous heavyweight out there. Big mouth, but a big heart (and that whiplash punch) to back it up, he is an enigma. Ortiz, I really like his style and being 40 (+?) I am hoping he can pull it off.
i am not excessively fat, but at my peak weight i was 210 pound (i am 6 foot). It freaks me out that a guy regarded by some as potentially having the biggest right hand in the history of boxing weighs only 220. I guy who could probably knock out any human on earth weighs only 10 pound more than me. Fucking crazy
And arguably the hardest punching HW ever, Earnie Shavers, best weight was 210.
It’s all in the timing mate ……I’ve seen 250 pound guys who couldn’t bruise a grape !!
yeah i agree mostly. i guess it can’t ALL be in the timing otherwise weight would have no influence at all Straw weights could potentially be the hardest punchers with perfect timing for example. it just seems to me that there is an optimum. you need the weight to a degree but then any more (eg over 220) is detrimental to your technique. Fascinating really.
Fury?
Either way, someone is going to need a CT scan to rule out a cranial bleed after this is over…..Bombs away!
Great weight for both fighters. Ortiz looks determined! may the best man win!
What is Luis Nery’s FUCKING PROBLEM?
This is the 2nd time he pulled this shit. FUCK HIM !!
He is not a bantamweight. Clenbuterol helped him, but he can not longer use it. First time with Yamanaka he made weight, but was caught, second fight he missed by a mile. Banned for life to fight in Japan, soon maybe in USA.
Mike,
I would LOVE to see Monster beat this punk. Even if he comes in 40 pounds overweight, Monster will take his punk ass out. Nery is nothing.
Nery is a weight bully and a drug cheat. Nothing more. He won’t go up to 122 because he knows he’ll get his ass kicked by his countrymen Navarrete. Getting tired of all these Mexicans backing this hype job who can’t even make weight, while running his mouth against a pound for pounder in Inoue.
Hardest puncher ever… IRON MIKE TYSON! 5’10” sent people the size of wilder flying like projectile missiles across the ring and out cold.
Mike wasnt the hardest puncher ever….smh
Definitely not the hardest puncher ever. More like a relentless inside fighter who slipped punches well and came right back nailed people when their hands were out of position. He threw in rapid fire combinations and he threw the right things at the right times.
Very well trained but there have been others who could hit harder but their styles and training didn’t optimize what they had as well as Tyson’s did.
These are two genuinely good men and ferocious warriors at the same time. I love it.
I think Ortiz has a good chance of winning this fight and I think the odds make betting intriguing. Think Ortiz is more prepared for this one and his superior boxing and much better conditioning (for this fight) allows him to keep foot on the gas.
This was a stupid rematch for Wilders camp to take as Wilder almost got taken out by a less conditioned Ortiz.
Ortiz is in good shape! He will KO Wilder in the 6th round. Go King Kong!
Brandon Figueroa is a Star