Boxing: Mayweather KO Ortiz in the fourth round

LAS VEGAS – The final sequence came quickly, suddenly, four rounds of Floyd Mayweather Jr. ‘s most recent victory Boxing Saturday at the MGM Grand.

Ortiz had failed to consider one of the most basic rules of boxing, protect yourself at all times. He paid dearly.

The crowd, however, that Mayweather has never looked back, not to encourage the new World Champion Boxing Council welterweight. In fact, booed, loudly, forcefully, and Mayweather took the bad guy once.

Mayweather is a role that seems to enjoy more with each passing fight, the heel, a champion, may be respected, but nevertheless, I hated it. Mayweather analyst Larry Merchant has sworn in an HBO interview to the ring immediately after the fight. Even in victory, he ran his mouth. And ran. And ran.

However, as the scandal became deafening boos that rained crowd around the ring, Mayweather returned to raise his arms in victory. It can be filtered, can be bad art, but now 42-0.

“In the ring must be protected at all times,” said Mayweather. “We played again after the break.”

He added: “He did something dirty.”

This was true, and consensus in the ring after Mayweather seems to be the victim of a voluntary impulse, he done nothing illegal, but not win any awards for his sportsmanship. It’s not his style anyway.

The question now, as always, is whether Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will never be opposed by poor quality and actually fight each other. But this debate was for another night.

However, one of the strangest turns in recent times has come to the fore. Head Ortiz could not be interpreted as accidental, and the consequences, or even treat it as an excuse. Even stranger, after the header, Ortiz chased Mayweather in the corner, he tried to kiss and planted what looked like a kiss in mid-combat.

“I’m not a dirty fighter,” Ortiz said later, arguing that he was surprised to Mayweather. Replay TV, however, showed a different story.

Mayweather had walked slowly MGM Grand Garden Arena in his shorts and oversized stripes, as if designed by the Cincinnati Bengals, his friend, rapper 50 Cent in tow. A bell hanging over the eyes of Mayweather, and not smiling, at least not until he steps into the ring.

Throughout the week, Mayweather has promised to be with Ortiz, that exceeded 14 pounds on Saturday. And he did not participate, early and often , feeding a steady diet Ortiz to take the right hand. In the second round, Mayweather landed two big rights severed head back to Ortiz.

and the fight continues, the more Mayweather smiled as she danced around the ring, he found his right hand on the face of Ortiz. At the end of the fourth round, the question was not whether Ortiz would win the fight, but if I could finish. He was the count at 2:59 of the assault.

The end was appropriate, that the struggle took place under a backdrop of surreal circus, the same rules of boxing, the local confluence of strange to anyone Mayweather is called, but usually also considering participation Mayweather clan.

boxer, world champion in five weight classes, return to the ring for the first time in 16 months. In recent weeks, he quarreled with his father on HBO, many lawsuits challenged and defended his legacy so strong, so often seemed a bit nervous, if not really worried. At the time of weighing Friday, he put his right hand on the neck of Ortiz, the strange behavior of a preferred 5:01.