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Enlightened-One wrote: ↑03 Jan 2019, 10:55

Thomastearns wrote: ↑03 Jan 2019, 10:13 https://www.skysports.com/boxing/news/1 ... tyson-fury

Interesting views from Whyte regarding all his main rivals, (apart from Ortiz). Looks like he's willing to face any of them.

Nothing much to disagree with there, but is he overestimating himself in his ability to adapt to the different styles they all bring?

Here's Whyte's recent comments about Luis Ortiz:

“But like I say, if Ortiz wants it, he can have it. But only if Deontay Wilder agrees to fight me next and nobody else. I’ll fight Luis Ortiz and I’ll run through him," Whyte said.

“He’s an old man, I’ll dismantle him. He’ll get tired and I’ll leave him in a bad way. A bad, bad way.”

I’d favour the Brit to outwork the Cuban and force a late stoppage.

I believe Luis Ortiz to be: a hyped-up; overrated; past-his-prime; multiple offending drug cheat; that was previously bestowed a premature honorary rite of passage to being regarded as the best heavyweight on the planet by many so-called boxing aficionados, without them requiring the need for verification by seeing the Cuban face the very best available opposition.

I don’t want to sound too harsh on the Luis Ortiz, because I don’t have any real reason to dislike him (barring testing positive for banned substances twice), but he has received an awful lot of hype from the media, such as HBO, Sky & Showtime, despite not having accomplished anything significant in the sport, coupled with delivering a few unimpressive displays over recent years, as well as being clearly older than his “official” age.