Andre Berto vs. Victor Ortiz
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| Date | April 16, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA |
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| Title(s) on the line | WBC Welterweight Title. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Ortiz defeated Berto by unanimous decision. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Boxer |
Andre Berto
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Victor Ortiz
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| Hometown | Miami, Florida | Garden City, Kansas | |
| Pre-fight record | 27-0-0 (21 KO's) | 28-2-2 (22 KO's) | |
| Height | 5′ 8″ | 5′ 9″ | |
| Recognition | WBC Welterweight Champion. | The Ring's No. 9 ranked Jr. Welterweight |
Andre Berto vs. Victor Ortiz was a welterweight world title fight that aired on HBO's Boxing After Dark on April 16, 2011. As part of an HBO televised broadcast, the split-site double-header included WBA junior welterweight Championship Amir Khan vs. Paul McCloskey, Khan fighting from his native England.
Berto is coming off a tremendous TKO victory over Freddy Hernandez. Berto successfully defended his WBC welterweight title, stopping Freddy Hernandez at 2:07 of the first round. He hammered Hernandez (29-2) with a left hook, then floored him with a straight right during the co-feature fight of the Juan Manuel Marquez-Michael Katsidis lightweight championship bout.
While Ortiz's last battle ended up being a draw against Lamont Peterson that could have delay that desire on the Amir Khan-Marcos Maidana junior welterweight title fight undercard. Peterson went down for the first time from a right hand that finished a four-punch combination. Peterson got up quickly and did not appear hurt. But he was moments later from another punch and he grabbed on to Ortiz as they tumbled to the mat. Whether Ortiz had a good or bad performance on December 11, there's no doubt that both Andre Berto and Victor Ortiz are two of the hottest prospects in any division.
Both rapper 50 Cent and #2 P4P boxer in the world Floyd Mayweather, Jr. were sitting in ring side.
The fight was sanctioned as a world title fight in the welterweight division, where the weight limit is 147 pounds. However, Berto's camp agreed to fight at a catchweight of "145 pounds plus one" to accommodate Ortiz, who was moving up from the 140 lb division.
Although Ortiz was the fighter moving up in weight, on fight night he was 161 on HBO's unofficial scale while Berto was 156. At Friday's weigh in, Ortiz weighed in at the contracted catchweight of 146 pounds, while Berto weighed 145.5. Ortiz outpointed Andre Berto to take Berto’s welterweight title.
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