Video: Victor Ortiz's Whopper Lie About Childhood Mayweather Fantasies
by Scott Christ on Jun 29, 2011 4:56 PM EDT
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Earlier we featured Brian Kenny and his latest interview with Floyd Mayweather Jr, and now here's his discussion with Victor Ortiz. For those who can't stand my nit-picking on Ortiz, please look away, because this is...wow.
Now let's talk about one particular thing here.
Ortiz on the fight: "Let me tell you something. Back when I was nine years old, I always said to myself one day I would be the welterweight champion of the world, and when that day came around, I would be the first to fight Floyd Mayweather and give him his first defeat. I said that -- I was nine. I mean, the years have passed, I'm 24 now..."
OK.
OK.
- Victor Ortiz turned nine years old on January 31, 1996.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr went professional on October 11, 1996, as a super featherweight.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr would not become a welterweight until 2005.
- I don't think many nine year old kids dream that they'll be fighting at 147 pounds.
- I am going to leave it at that before I explode my brain over this ridiculous, blatantly fake story that Victor Ortiz is trying to peddle.
- I MEAN COME ON!
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I might need to borrow your puke bucket.
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jun 29, 2011 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Victor is on a drug called delusional.
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." Archbishop Sheen
by THERE is No CoMPETiTioN on Jun 29, 2011 5:30 PM EDT reply actions
If anything, he thought he was gonna be the heavyweight champion of the world. Let’s be honest, no one’s gonna go “cant wait till im fighting for that light middleweight title” when they’re a kid. You don’t even know how big you’re gonna be. You might fuck around and turn into a flyweight. I mean. Yeah.
On a slightly lighter note, I honestly hope you don’t literally explode by the end of this promotional run, SC, cos this is far from over.
by The Twillness on Jun 29, 2011 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Most of me just finds his lying funny, honestly. But it’s so infuriating that he’s not called on this. How did Brian Kenny not go, “Wait — explain?”
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"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jun 29, 2011 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions
But Scott
don’t you know that his backstory forgives all manner of bullshit?
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on Jun 29, 2011 6:01 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I guess
the outerspace rocketship that golden boy has him piloting in the promo went through a worm hole and threw off his whole space/time thing.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on Jun 29, 2011 6:03 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
The most likely explanation IMO.
Cooper! Get two coffins. Wait...better make it three.
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by lowellthehammer on Jun 29, 2011 6:48 PM EDT up reply actions
wasn’t victor working at burger king when he was dumb young? i don’t think he knew who mayweather was. epic fail at promoting
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." Archbishop Sheen
by THERE is No CoMPETiTioN on Jun 29, 2011 6:01 PM EDT reply actions
you think that's crazy?
He’s been dreaming of fighting Canelo at 154 since he was 6!
by rodger3 on Jun 29, 2011 6:41 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
In all fairness, Richard Schaefer told me power meant Victor Ortiz. So while we can all call GBP out on their bullshit, at least they’re being consistent!
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by Oli Goldstein on Jun 29, 2011 7:48 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
He also lies about being a lefty
not that its important but it shows a tendency to lie
by Mohammedini Hussein on Jun 29, 2011 7:54 PM EDT reply actions
it shows a tendency to lie
He certainly has that. I wonder how much of his past is made up or at the very least exagerated?
Not that Im trying to defend him or anything.
But I really don’t remember anything I said when I was 9. Maybe he just threw any old number out there? I’m not taking this all that serious at least. =P
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
God forbid anyone should defend him, but basically that’s where I’m at. Kid memories sometimes just grow along with the kid, they’re not aware of when the idol changed or who was who at a given time. They can’t remember the timing right, just they wanted to be “the champ” and can’t remember offhand any other champ so—it must be this champ, he’s been around a “long time” if you’re 24. Childhood memory is notorious for innacuracy and playing tricks.
It’s been a long, long time since I was a kid, but even in my twenties I’d have had trouble remembering, for instance, how old I was when the Elvis debuted on Ed Sullivan (and it was an unforgettable moment for me, US music went ass over teakettle right before my baby eyes and I knew it) without checking dates. I’d would have said I’d been a fan since I was 8 or 9, but it wasn’t, it was Sept. 9, 1956, when I was 11 1/2. And Elvis was just huge in my youth. Still is, when you consider how long he’s been dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt6PK_eZD-Y&feature=fvwrel
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else--James Thurber, 1939
Exactly. I just think he threw a number out. Its not like he’s gonna say, “hey Kenny, let me figure something out real quick…”
*does the math
“You know, Kenny, when I was 13…”
lol
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Jun 30, 2011 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
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