Teofimo Lopez vs. Jamaine Ortiz | ESPN - February 8, 2024

[Evander]

3-3
Ortiz is running but scoring with some counters.
Teo is all one shot going for the home run.

[Evander]

4-3 Teo

Ortiz cut bad, severity level ... at least an 8.

[Evander]

4-4

Ortiz did a good job protecting the cut, and Teo did little to pressure him.
Close round all the same.

[Evander]

Another close one.
Teo can't box outside the pocket man, if it's not in his zone he rarely goes for it.
Ortiz is doing a lot of running but catching Teo enough to stay in or win the round.

5-4 Ortiz

[Evander]

5-5
Edge it for Teo.

[Evander]

6-5 Teo

Clearer round for Teo, stalked Ortiz well and highlighted just how much Ortiz is backing up.

[Sendo Takeshi]

Close fight, but Teo looked like shit.
Ortiz deserves it.

[Evander]

Considering how close it may have been, the lack of urgency in Ortiz work in the last last two rounds may have cost him.

7-5 Teo

[armageto]

Make this shyt a draw, nobody deserves to win it honestly. Bad watch and neither man really tried to win it.

[JamesPhilips]

Who are the commentators for the US show?

[Evander]

Judges Scorecards

117-111
115-113
115-113

Teo Wins a UD.

[Sendo Takeshi]

Bum ass judges.
117:111 is a disgrace.
Steve Weisfeld should retire. This fool fucked up too many times recently.

[joshj909]

Was this as controversial as people are saying?

[Ruthless-RKO]

I read it was lacklustre..

Lopez was trailing after 8 rounds on 2 cards lol

[Ruthless-RKO]

CompuBox Stats



Teofimo Lopez averaged 12 power punches thrown over the first five rounds while Jamaine Ortiz averaged 19. Over the next six rounds Lopez came on, averaging 18 power punches thrown per round while Ortiz averaged 15.

In the final round, Lopez threw a fight high 36 power punches. The combatants landed the exact same amount of punches in four of the twelve rounds.

[joshj909]

CompuBox Stats



Teofimo Lopez averaged 12 power punches thrown over the first five rounds while Jamaine Ortiz averaged 19. Over the next six rounds Lopez came on, averaging 18 power punches thrown per round while Ortiz averaged 15.

In the final round, Lopez threw a fight high 36 power punches. The combatants landed the exact same amount of punches in four of the twelve rounds.

Averaging under 7 punches per round at that weightclass is terrible.

[BROZO]

I was super excited the first time I saw Teo come on the scene, but as his career has progressed, he seem to keep getting exposed against lesser boxers. He seems to be one dimessional unable to cut off the ring and easily frustrated. He relies to much on his power I believe Sandor and Ortiz deserved at the very least a Draw, coming from me a Teo fan I can see how many think both fight he was gifted.

[ironbeard]

Lopez is a poster child for athletes that fight/play to the level of their competition.

[NateJR]

We had Ortiz out there fighting like he was the champion. Ortiz outboxed Teo, Teo just followed him around, swinging at air and not able to cut off the ring.
It was a more borning version of Alvarez/Lara, which says alot. The fight sucked.

Only reason I'm not disappointed in the outcome is because all the shit Ortiz was talking before the fight, then to come out and do that for 12 rounds lol. Lopez atleast took it to the Champion for his title.

[Sendo Takeshi]

Only reason I'm not disappointed in the outcome is because all the shit Ortiz was talking before the fight, then to come out and do that for 12 rounds lol.

Lopez talks shit before and after fights. Isn't that much better, especially if you hit air most of the fight.

[ironbeard]

Lopez was NOT impressive but he won that fight late. It was close. One judge was utterly outside the lines. But, they got it right.

Teofimo is an excellent talent but he has not matured psychologically.

[Powellm]

Judges come down very heavily on fighters they perceive not to be engaging enough and avoiding shots by repeatedly moving out of range instead of slipping and countering them. Even if a fighter out lands his opponent or wins the majority of the exchanges, he can still be deemed to have lost the round if he spends 2 mins of it avoiding his opponent and I think this is entirely fair.

[Evander]

I was super excited the first time I saw Teo come on the scene, but as his career has progressed, he seem to keep getting exposed against lesser boxers. He seems to be one dimessional unable to cut off the ring and easily frustrated. He relies to much on his power I believe Sandor and Ortiz deserved at the very least a Draw, coming from me a Teo fan I can see how many think both fight he was gifted.

He hasn't settled himself.
He's caught between a number of styles in his head and it shows in his trade.
Teo's outside game was not good.

[victor-romeo]

That was an incredibly boring fight. Lopez power didn't carry to 140 and he doesn't really know how to set up fighters for ko, he pot shots, careful matchmaking is now carrying him..

[Ruthless-RKO]

Teofimo Lopez-Jamaine Ortiz Main Event Averaged 532,000 Viewers; Peaked At 584,000 On ESPN

It is probably just as well considering the mundane nature of how it unfolded, but fewer viewers than usual watched the most recent boxing main event ESPN televised.

Viewership figures released by Nielsen Media Research indicated an average audience of 532,000 watched the 12-round, 140-pound championship fight between Teofimo Lopez and Jamaine Ortiz on Thursday night. ESPN’s audience for Lopez-Ortiz peaked at 584,000 toward the end of a boring bout Lopez won by unanimous decision at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas.

In addition to airing on a Thursday night, Lopez-Ortiz didn’t begin until 11:39 p.m. ET, which undoubtedly impacted ESPN’s viewership.

Nielsen’s numbers only include viewers who tuned in on ESPN’s linear channel because the tracking service doesn’t have access to streaming viewers on ESPN+, which now accounts for a sizable portion of ESPN’s audience. ESPN doesn’t release viewership totals from ESPN+, either.

Nevertheless, the audience for Lopez-Ortiz was significantly lower than viewership for Lopez’s previous appearance on ESPN, a 12-round, unanimous-decision defeat of former undisputed 140-pound champion Josh Taylor on June 10 in New York.

The average audience for Lopez-Taylor was 945,000 and it peaked at 980,000. The two-bout broadcast headlined by Lopez-Taylor aired on a Saturday night from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Though their fight seemed very competitive, Ortiz (17-2-1, 8 KOs) was heavily criticized for carefully fighting off of his back foot for almost all 12 rounds. Ortiz, an orthodox boxer who approached Lopez (20-1, 13 KOs) exclusively from a southpaw stance, won five rounds apiece on the scorecards of judges Tim Cheatham (115-113) and David Sutherland (115-113), but judge Steve Weisfeld credited Ortiz for winning only three rounds (117-111).

Lopez implored Ortiz to stand and fight numerous times. A disciplined Ortiz stuck to his game plan until the final bell, though, and argued afterward that he “dominated the fight.”

The first fight of ESPN’s doubleheader Thursday night – Keyshawn Davis’ sixth-round, technical-knockout victory over Jose Pedraza – drew an average audience of 350,000 and a peak audience of 392,000.

Davis (10-0, 7 KOs, 1 NC), a 2021 Olympic silver medalist, produced the most impressive performance of his professional career in pummeling Pedraza. The 24-year-old Davis battered a bloodied Pedraza during the sixth round, which caused referee Thomas Taylor to stop their scheduled 10-round lightweight bout 1:09 into it.

Davis joined WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis (29-0, 27 KOs) as the only opponents who’ve stopped Pedraza (29-6-1, 14 KOs) inside the distance during his 13-year professional career. Davis defeated Pedraza by seventh-round TKO and won the IBF junior lightweight title from him in January 2017 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.