{"id":688303,"date":"2026-07-12T22:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688303\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:30:05","slug":"victor-ortiz-names-the-one-opponent-who-was-tougher-than-floyd-mayweather-he-hit-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688303\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Ortiz names the one opponent who was tougher than Floyd Mayweather: “He hit so hard”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite his controversial defeat to Floyd Mayweather in 2011, Victor Ortiz<\/a> believes one other opponent posed a greater threat than the self-proclaimed \u2018Best Ever\u2019.<\/p>\n

Having just dethroned Andre Berto with a unanimous decision victory, the American entered his clash with Mayweather as the WBC world welterweight champion.<\/p>\n

Ortiz, however, was an almighty underdog against the generational great, who banked the first three rounds of their contest with relative ease.<\/p>\n

The champion then resorted to launching intentional head butts, to which referee Joe Cortez responded by docking a point in round four.<\/p>\n

With Cortez looking in the opposite direction, Mayweather simply took advantage of the situation and knocked his opponent out<\/a>, with Ortiz later accused of not protecting himself at all times.<\/p>\n

For that, it seems he largely had himself to blame, but either way, Ortiz remains convinced that Mayweather was not his toughest opponent.<\/p>\n

Instead, the 39-year-old has told Pro Boxing Fans<\/a> that Berto was the man to pose the most problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest guy I fought was Andre Berto, man. He hit so hard with both hands \u2013 speedy, accurate. That guy was not one to toy with.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth wars were hectic. Hats off to Berto.\u201d<\/p>\n

After winning their first encounter, Ortiz suffered a fourth-round stoppage defeat<\/a> in their 2016 rematch, shortly after Berto lost a unanimous decision to Mayweather.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his career, Ortiz also faced Marcos Maidana, who was generally considered a more ferocious puncher than both Berto and Mayweather.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the rugged Argentinian won by stoppage in round six of their 2009 encounter, back when both eventual champions were campaigning at 140lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite his controversial defeat to Floyd Mayweather in 2011, Victor Ortiz believes one other opponent posed a greater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-688303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688303","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=688303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}