Boxing chump Floyd Mayweather preserved his winning streak in the ring with a ‘dirty’ 4th round knockout over Victor Ortiz, who had his guard down.
Mayweather landed a quick 1-2 punch that ended the fight while his 24-year-old opponent seemed to be apologizing to him for an unintentional headbutt.
The first 3 rounds of the boxing match started off slowly. But the action sped up in the 4th round when the referee penalized Ortiz for a headbutt.
After the two boxers touched gloves to resume the fight, Ortiz seemed to be apologizing when Mayweather tapped him with a quick left jab and then dropped him with a vicious right cross punch — while Ortiz’s hands were down.
Mayweather extended his winning streak to 42 fights to remain undefeated in his career. But boxing purists reacted with anger over the dirty ending to the much-hyped prize fight.
After the fight, Mayweather argued with 80-year-old veteran HBO anchor Larry Merchant.
“I got hit by a dirty shot. The rule is protect yourself at all time,” Mayweather explained. “We are not here to cry and complain about what he did or I did dirty.”
But Merchant told Mayweather, “If I was younger I’d kick your ass!”
“You never give me a fair shake,” Mayweather whined to Merchant. “You don’t know sh*t about boxing.”
The 34-year-old boxer added: “My mouth was split open. I said keep it clean. Once you touch gloves, it is go time.
“We came together to fight. It is fight time. You want to do me dirty and then two minutes later you want to be my friend? This is the hurting business.”
During the post-match press conference, Mayweather offered Ortiz a rematch, which Ortiz gladly accepted.
Ortiz apologized for his headbutt both during and after the fight: “I fouled Floyd, I apologised in the ring and apologised after the fight as well. I would really like the rematch.
“I thought the ref (Joe Cortez) called a break, and I am pretty sure he did, and then I was like ‘whoa, whoa’, and then I woke up after.”
The anger over the dirty knockdown spilled onto social networking websites such as Twitter.com, where boxing fans who felt cheated argued with elated Mayweather Stans.
One of those Stans was amateur boxer Chris Brown — who only fights women and throws chairs. Hundreds of his angry “followers” users got in Brown’s azz for bigging up Mayweather.
