by David P. Greisman - The problem, Lloyd Scaife soon recognized, is that he hadn’t initially realized there was a problem. And at that moment, barely minutes after the fight he’d been scoring from ringside was over, so too was the career of the 85-y...
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Last Saturday night’s KO performance by Luis Ortiz in Washington, DC registered with HBO subscribers as an average of 740,000 viewers tuned in for the matchup with Tony Thompson. The fight peaked at 807,000 viewers. The viewership numbers marked a 20...
by David P. Greisman - The first boxing card I covered live was Mike Tyson’s final bout, when he quit against Kevin McBride and I asked a question in the post-fight press conference that made him curse. It probably didn’t ever take much to make Tyson...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - WBA Interim Heavyweight World Champion Luis 'King Kong' Ortiz (25-0, 22 KOs) continued his rapid descent up the heavyweight division, knocking Tony 'The Tiger' Thompson (40-7, 27 KOs) down twice before finishing him with a huge kno...
By Cliff Rold - On Saturday night at the DC Armory in Washington, DC, in front of approximately 4,300 fans, Cuban-born 36-year old interim WBA heavyweight titlist Luis Ortiz (25-0, 22 KO) of Miami, Florida, scored three big knockdowns en route to a s...
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Fresh from a stunning knockout of Bryant 'By-By' Jennings and eager to continue his quest to be the best heavyweight in the sport, WBA Interim Heavyweight World Champion Luis 'The Real King Kong' Ortiz (24-0, 21 KOs) will face former world title chal...
From the moment he obliterated perennial Top 10 contender Bryant Jennings to end his 2015 campaign, Luis Ortiz knew he'd be walking around with a bulls-eye on his back. The unbeaten Cuban southpaw welcomes the attention, but is discouraged by his...
Luis Ortiz is set for his fourth fight in a span of just nine months as he takes on veteran heavyweight Tony Thompson. Their non-title fight takes place Saturday evening at the D.C. Armory in Washington D.C., airing live on HBO. As pointless as...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fighters featured on the March 5 HBO Boxing After Dark telecast shared their final thoughts ahead of Saturday's fights at the final press conference today in Washington, D.C. WBA Interim Heavyweight Champion Luis "The Real King Ko...
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By Jake Donovan - It was the night before Halloween, but Tony Thompson was already all out of tricks in search of a treat that would have come with a win over Malik Scott. The middle-aged heavyweight had Scott down on the canvas late in the fight, bu...
Misinformation travels across the internet at the speed of light. But unlike light, misinformation does not illuminate. Misinformation shrouds the facts in darkness. One cannot always believe what one reads, and despite what you may have read on d...
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LOS ANGELES - Fresh from a stunning knockout of Bryant "By-By" Jennings and eager to continue his quest to be the best heavyweight in the sport, WBA Interim Heavyweight World Champion Luis "The Real King Kong" Ortiz (24-0, 21 KOs) will make his first...
The undefeated record he boasts certainly suggests Luis Ortiz (24-0, 21KOs) has been perfect to date, but he remains haunted by the one low point thus far in his pro career. His Sept. '14 1st round knockout of Lateef Kayode in Las Vegas went from the...
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