By accident or design there is only one exit from Camagüey, the ramshackle city in central Cuba where Luis Ortiz was born nearly 39 years ago. Myth has it the confusing web of alleyways leading nowhere in particular was designed to trap raiding pirates, luring them on to hopelessness and destruction.
True or not, the story is an apt metaphor for Ortiz’s career. A heavyweight southpaw with educated power, he is the ultimate boxing nightmare and is as hard to avoid as he is to find. Of the 28 opponents who have tried to corner him only four have finished the assignment standing up, none with a victorious hand raised.
On Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn Ortiz hopes to entice Deontay Wilder into a web from which he cannot escape – because, for all his knee-knocking presence and achievements, the WBC champion retains some of the rawness he brought with him from the briefest of amateur careers. This is the seventh defence of his title; it could prove the most difficult.
Source : theguardian
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