Right after Boots\u2019 win, Ortiz would declare that he would assuredly knock Boots out whenever they meet, and also derided Zayas in the process for what he called a quit job after getting dropped for the three times in the fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cYea, I\u2019m sleeping Jaron,\u201d Ortiz began with a post on X before rattling off a series more. \u201cIf I get him like that I promise you I get him out of there.<\/p>\n
\u201cXander you looked straight to your corner after you got dropped that last time. You\u2019re a p-ssy. You did better than I thought you were gonna do but you\u2019re a quitter, I can\u2019t believe I just saw you do that,\u201d Ortiz posted.<\/p>\n
Ortiz would also take aim at DAZN commentator Sergio Mora, saying his position in ridiculing both fighters are valid.<\/p>\n
\u201cSorry I wasn\u2019t given free belts with one of the weakest resumes in boxing!\u201d Ortiz would add. \u201cAnd sorry for clowning on the guy who has been clowning me for invalid reasons for over a year. If those circumstances make me look bad in your eyes then you\u2019re just ignorant. I earned my shot before [X]ander did a thousand times over, you\u2019re gonna blame ME for not winning a title? You\u2019re gonna blame ME for not receiving those fights against those people who 99% of the boxing world probably can\u2019t name? If I had won those belts from those opponents everyone would be clowning the credibility of my belts. Out of everyone on that broadcast I at least expected the boxer to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz, 28, hasn\u2019t fought since a November 2025 win over Erickson Lubin and has been sidelined ever since as he\u2019s been in an ongoing legal dispute with his Golden Boy promoter. In fact, Ortiz was originally meant to be the opponent for this very fight, but that couldn\u2019t happen because of his promotional dispute. Recent interviews have quoted Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya saying things have been moving in a positive direction lately though, and he expects Ortiz to be back in the ring before the year is out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right after Boots\u2019 win, Ortiz would declare that he would assuredly knock Boots out whenever they meet, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}