This ended up an entertaining fight between these 2 southpaw heavyweight challengers but just a sad state of boxing that they think this bout was actually worthy of a PPV event. The saturated PPV market of boxing on all these channels are seriously hurting boxing.
Charles Martin scored a flash first-round knockdown with a looping left hand which landed on the back of Ortiz head. Martin was also down in the same round but that was correctly not ruled a knockdown as they tangled their feet.
Martin was focused and sharp in most of the fight. Ortiz looked trim and controlled the pace of the fight which was relatively slow.
Charles scored another knockdown in the 4th round with a jab as Ortiz came in and he started to look more confident as he was winning on the cards with the 2 knockdowns.
The fight turned dramatically in the 6 round when Ortiz landed his own left-hand power shot that effectively knocked Martin unconscious whilst he was standing up unprotected. Ortiz followed up, as the ref did not stop the fight, rushing at a defenceless Martin and knocked him down. Charles glove got caught between the ropes and had to be untangled by the ref which gave him some time to recover.
It was not enough however as Ortiz finished off Martin in same round as the ref finally stopped it with the second knockdown. Charles was shouting bullshit, complaining at the stoppage and stood in front of Ortiz who pushed him away.
As I said, entertaining fight from the two.![]()
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