The smiling and all the promotion with easy matchups made me suspicious. He seemed uncannily like an American version of Amir Khan and then the premature pullout against Maidana. Recently he has sounded far more gritty and like he has a chip on his shoulder and in this fight really fought like it.

He has won me over with this fight and I genuinely cannot wait to see him fight again. He is exciting and powerful, but also somewhat vulnerable. He also seems like a nice person too, which is always a plus. If he keeps this attitude and determination to prove doubters wrong, then he won't go far wrong. Believe it or not some doubters do actually want to be won over. Boxing fans like boxers who listen and care about their reputation and legacy and Ortiz seems to want to respond accordingly.

I was worrying about running out of any new fighters to like, but Ortiz will fit the bill quite nicely which will likely annoy Bilbo who probably wants to like him too.

I would really like to see Ortiz against Khan actually. I doubted the chin of Ortiz in the past and though not perfect, he has plenty of power and speeed to get Khan out of there.