Luis Ortiz

Luis Ortiz is a heavyweight boxer who parted ways with his undefeated title in a World Challenger Challenge in March 2018. According to heavyweight manager Deontay Wilder, the Cuban and his ward are two athletes whose rivals find plenty of reasons not to fight them.

The biography of "The Real King Kong", as the boxer is called in professional circles, is sparse in detail. Louis was born on Liberty Island, Camaguey in March 1979. What the parents were doing, what educational institutions Ortiz graduated from is unknown. In addition, according to Eurosport.ru, the Cuban is suspected of forgery because he looks older than his age. According to American TV presenter and analyst Al Bernstein, Ortiz may be "already retired."

The Cuban boxing school has long become a brand, and Comandante Fidel Castro was especially fond of this sport. However, professional fights in Cuba were banned, and only in 2013 were local gladiators allowed to earn money under the auspices of the semi-professional Boxing League.

According to Luis, he has been in boxing since he was 10, and since there is no entertainment on the island to this day, nothing distracted from training. Slowly but surely, Ortiz climbed the career ladder and eventually got into the national team.

In 2005, the young boxer came to the team World Cup in Moscow. The Cubans, who were considered favorites in all respects, lost to the Russian national team, and Luis lost to Roman Romanchuk. A year later, Ortiz became the champion of Cuba, in 2006 he won the highest boxing tournament in his homeland - Playa Giron.

In 2009, Luis, who by that time already had a family, faced the problem of a lack of money for his daughter's treatment. The baby was threatened with finger amputation. Then acquaintances advised his desperate father to move to America, where it was possible to earn solid money in a professional ring. Without thinking twice, Ortiz rented a boat, sailed to Mexico at night, and from there moved to the United States.

In America, Fifth Street Gym, the alma mater of Muhammad Ali, became Louis's first training base. The choice was not accidental - Ortiz idolized the legendary boxer, watching his fights on TV at home.

In February 2010, at the age of 30, when other pros become world champions, Ortiz won only his first professional fight by knockout in 78 seconds. The received fee was enough to move the family and save the daughter.

To earn a name in the professional boxing community, Ortiz didn’t really care about the choice of opponents and agreed to almost everything. So, he fought with Kendrick Releford and Charles Davis, fighters against whom novices are usually presented. Then Louis received the first pro title of the Central American Boxing Association.

At first, it seems that the giant Ortiz, with a height of 193 cm and a span of more than two meters, is too clumsy, however, like all fighters whose weight exceeds 90 kg. However, in the ring, he transforms: as they say in one film, flutters like a butterfly, and the power of his knockdowns was experienced by Bert Cooper, Walter Palacios, Latif Kayode, the meeting with whom ended 30 seconds later, Jason Barnett.

In 2012, in a fight with Epifanio Mendoza, Luis won two vacant titles at once - WBC Latino and WBO Latino. Three years later, he took away the title of interim WBA world champion from Matthias Widondo, successfully defended it in a fight with two-time challenger Bryant Jennings.

The Cuban could boast of this title back in 2014, if not for the anabolic steroids found in a urine sample. The victory then, of course, was not counted. The boxer, despite heated assurances of innocence, was suspended for 9 months.

Alexander Povetkin also received the right to fight Ortiz for the title of the best, but the Russian refused to meet. Promoter Andrei Ryabinsky explained that their side was not satisfied with the opponent's too high financial demands, to which Luis's manager noted that in case of disagreement on the money issue, one should wait for the auction, and not just abandon the fight.

As domestic sports analysts assume, if the Ortiz-Povetkin fight had taken place, later it would not have been necessary to talk about Povetkin's revival after the defeat from the Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko.

In November 2016, now Louis did not enter the ring to carry out a mandatory title defense against Alexander Ustinov. The World Boxing Association stripped the star of the championship title. But at the same time Luis Ortiz won the WBA Intercontinental World Champion belt on points.

A year later, the boxer updated the negative statistics on doping scandals. This time, Luis explained the presence of illegal drugs by the fact that he was taking medication to lower blood pressure and had no idea that the prescription drug would be considered a diuretic.

Ortiz said in detail that he had been taking the funds for a couple of years, but he drank a lot of water every day and was not going to mask anything, and the detected dose was too small. It was a mistake not to inform the relevant services about the medicine when filling out the documents. And of course there was no intent, since doping is a cross on his career, and boxing is important for him, since it is a means of providing for his family and children.

However, the athletic Themis turned out to be relentless. The athlete was suspended from the ring for a year, stripped of the status of a compulsory contender for the title of superchampion and removed from the WBA rating. The fight with WBC champion Deontay Wilder was automatically canceled.

True, Ortiz was left with the right after March 22, 2018 to request the cancellation of the disqualification and the opportunity to compete under the flag of other boxing unions. In September 2017, reigning heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder himself asked the World Boxing Council to meet with Luis.

Luis's family - wife, two daughters and a son - live in Miami, Florida. Other details about the Cuban heavyweight's private life are hidden from the public.

In March 2018, the most anticipated fight between two heavyweights, Luis Ortiz and Deontay Wilder, took place at the arena of New York's Barclays Center. The Cuban had the prospect of becoming the first representative of the Island of Liberty - the owner of the champion title in this weight category in the professional ring.

However, Ortiz did not manage to write a new page in the history of boxing - his opponent inflicted several heavy blows on him, before knocking him down. The fight was stopped in the 10th round.

Nevertheless, at the end of the summer, Luis is counting on revenge, as he believes that Wilder's team "bought" a few seconds from the referee, so that during the meeting the opponent would get a break.

2010 - WBC FECARBOX 2011 champion - WBA Fedelatin 2012 champion - WBC Latino and WBO Latino 2015 champion - WBA 2016 interim world champion - WBA Inter-Continental champion

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