Ortiz destroyed Hooker at seven.

Texas, Dallas people watching a fight, a whole evening, beautiful card, area of sweat and victories, and smell of who wants to get to the top.

As long as it lasted, we can’t complain anything to Maurice; he did his job well, he tried to use the jab and to move, he also brought some good combinations, it was the first time he fought as a welterweight, he traded (and here he did wrong in our opinion), but he did his match well.

Ortiz is devastating, very frontal with respect to his opponent, ready to taste the blows, even if his slight movements never make him arrive cleanly the blow, and ready to put back his series, to shorten the distance and bring again his deadly series.

Up to the fourth round Hooker did activities, but he didn’t bring important shots, however he moved and stemmed the Ortiz tide, at the fourth he brought a right hand that Ortiz felt in our opinion, it was the cleanest and most accurate shot of Maurice, arrived at the end of the round. At the fifth the sound has changed, the body shots have increased, the action of Virgil was even more relentless, Hooker has also put back we saw some very nice exchanges, but the difference in power came out immediately, and the shots brought to the body have given its effects in the next round, the sixth, where a killer body shot has put down the good Maurice who was saved by the gong. At the beginning of the seventh another body shot and the fight is over.

Ortiz hurts, really hurts; he is aware of this, and when he understands that who has in front of him does not have that power, necessary to stop him, he starts to take less calculated risks, to finish the match as soon as possible, he cuts that ring, he goes on bringing the blows, the final action started with two jabs and ended with a devastating blow to the body, which would have been followed by others if he had not gone down, remembering that it is the sum of all the work done round after round.

What can we say: he is devastating, hungry, heedless of the risks (no, he calculates them, in our opinion ..). some error in the defensive phase, to be reviewed, but the rest who faces him is of excellent caliber and knows how to box, long jab combinations and movements, in the case of Hooker.

Ortiz is really strong, in our opinion he can not challenge (at the moment) Spence or Crawford, but at the right time, if the timing and the business, permterà, we will see stellar matches, remembering that in this category there are other super emerging, to keep very, very much in consideration.

Great Ortiz, and thanks to Hooker who did everything he could, really amazing Virgil with his series, his timing, his combinations, and his desire to do well, he showed us that he is a predestined, who works very hard and does very well what he loves: boxing.

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