\n\tEXCLUSIVE: It\u2019s remembered as one of boxing\u2019s most controversial title fights, and now a documentary feature will relive that fateful night.<\/p>\n
\n\tAll-time great Floyd \u2018Money\u2019 Mayweather Jr.\u2019s victory over WBC Welterweight champ Victor \u2018Vicious\u2019 Ortiz on September 17, 2011 will be told in Re-Match<\/a>, a doc from director Dexton Deboree<\/a> (Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1, Best Shape of My Life with Will Smith).<\/p>\n \n\tFrank Ariza\u2019s production house, AF<\/a> Films, and Spanish-British actress-producer Itziar Fay are producing.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the fourth round of a spiky fight, Mayweather knocked out reigning WBC champ Ortiz in controversial fashion. Ortiz appeared to be apologizing to referee Joe Cortez for delivering a headbutt and stepped back without defending himself, only for Mayweather to land a pair of punches that knocked him down and left him unable to continue. Ortiz claims the blow came before Cortez had officially resumed the fight, though others say it had never been stopped in the first place. There are also those who say Mayweather\u2019s combination punches broke a tactic code of professional conduct.<\/p>\n \n\tRe-Match will provide a fresh look at the events through interviews with the protagonists, archive footage and infographics. The plan is for the iconic moment to be understood from multiple perspectives.<\/p>\n \n\tDeboree, the director, last year struck a first-look deal with Michael D. Ratner\u2019s company<\/a>, OBB Pictures, but this doc is outside that agreement. <\/p>\n \n\tHe has worked on the likes of James Bond film Quantum of Solace, while his series Promiseland, starring NBA Rookie of the Year Ja Morant, aired last year on Crackle. He served as showrunner and director for YouTube Originals series Best Shape of My Life, starring Will Smith, and for The Game Plan, starring Shaquille O\u2019Neal and a series of guest stars from the worlds of sports and culture. Deboree is also the founder of creative content company Falkon.<\/p>\n \n\tAF, which has a main production base in the Canary Islands, has produced more than 30 titles, including films such as \u00a1Ay, mi Madre!, Con los A\u00f1os que me Quedan, Reversi\u00f3n, El Vestido and La Silla. In television, it made Perd\u00f3name Se\u00f1or and Mariachis, and has worked with the likes of MGM, HBO Max, ABC, Disney+, Amazon and Netflix.<\/p>\n \n\tIn August, we revealed<\/a> it had attached Spanish-language cinema veteran Susi S\u00e1nchez to\u00a0El Mal Hijo, the debut feature directed by actor Jaime Lorente.\u00a0AF is also making<\/a> Elegido, a social thriller inspired by a set of notorious race riots in El Ejido, southern Spain, in 2000. Llu\u00eds Qu\u00edlez, best known for directing the buzzy Netflix crime drama\u00a0Below Zero, is directing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: It\u2019s remembered as one of boxing\u2019s most controversial title fights, and now a documentary feature will relive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[94140,94141,703,49,48,94142,70546,94143,82,89767],"class_list":["post-187577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-af","tag-af-films","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dexton-deboree","tag-floyd-mayweather-jr","tag-re-match","tag-sports","tag-victor-ortiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}