I didn’t get to watch this on Saturday night, but I still wanted to have a record of it on the site.

R1
Both guys came out throwing big punches. Ortiz knocked Maidana down to a knee with a counter right hook. Maidana got back up to knock Ortiz down immediately with a nice shot. Ortiz had the rubber legs going and seemed to be more hurt from the knock down.

R2
This round was all Ortiz. He knocked Maidana down twice in the round and is throwing huge shots. Maidana hit him good a few times too. These guys are just throwing big shots. No jabbing here.

R3
Ortiz controlled the round a bit better. However, he got hit and decided to slug it out again. Emmanuel Steward says that Maidana’s punches are slower and wider and Ortiz can see them coming.

R4
Maidana has a cut underneath his left eye now. The best punch of the round was a straight left hand by Ortiz that hit Maidana flush. Ortiz’s round again. Maidana is still trying to land big shots.

R5
Maidana’s lunging shots and aggressive shots are predictable, but his counter right is sneaky. Ortiz is now bleeding from his right eyebrow. Maidana ended the round with a huge loopy right hand that scored.. He took that round.

R6
Wow. Maidana came out throwing huge shots again and knocked Ortiz down to a knee. Ortiz had a big bruise under his left eye to go along with the cut. For some reason, when Maidana was on the offensive, instead of holding up his hands, Ortiz was trying to make him miss and set up his own shots and he was getting hit. It looks like he’s quit and the fight is over.

Winner: Marcos Maidana by way of 6th round TKO

The official decision is that the doctor stopped the fight. But you didn’t see Ortiz upset by the decision at all.

In between the 5th and 6th round, Ortiz’s corner was yelling at him to get his hands up and saying that he would stop the fight unless Ortiz defended better. He must’ve seen something in Ortiz that he didn’t like because at that point, Ortiz was clearly winning.

It will be interesting to see where Ortiz goes from here.

Ortiz said that he fought dumb and he was trying to knock him out for the fans.

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