Cuban heavyweight puncher Luis Ortiz has been out of the ring for over a 12 months. (picture by Ryan Hafey)
Ortiz, 44-years-old, has been inactive since dropping a detailed twelve spherical unanimous determination to former unified champion Andy Ruiz again in September of 2022.
Ortiz has been staying in form and ready for a possibility to come back up.
The damaging puncher’s coach, Germán Caicedo, is rising with frustration as time passes and choices are working out for his fighter.
“He’s coaching each day. We have now completely different routines. Since there’s nothing on the horizon he’s engaged on his bodily situation. Not as a lot boxing, however he does come to the fitness center 3 times per week. No person talks about him,” Caicedo advised George Ebro.
“I see fighters who say, ‘I am uninterested in ready for this one, I can not discover an opponent.’ Like Tyson Fury who’s going to face Francis Ngannou. He did not name Luis. The identical with [Anthony] Joshua, he has no opponent. He hasn’t referred to as Luis both. They do not name him. They wish to erase him from the map. They need him to vanish in order that he now not bothers them. Since he debuted on the scene they’ve prevented him.
“Those that do name are the fellows who’re 10 and 0 with 10 knockouts, providing $100,000 to battle… guys who want it much more [than us] to allow them to say that they fought with Luis whether or not they win or lose. However that is not price it on the stage the place he’s at proper now. Fury and Joshua say that they solely wish to battle for cash. OK, Luis is similar, however the distinction is that Luis likes boxing.
“The punch is the very last thing to go. His skills from the age of 30 after I met him up till now have been adjusting, realizing that he can now not do a number of the issues that he used to do. He does do them, however not consistently. Luis is 44 years previous, however he appears like he is 33. He nonetheless pushes, beats folks on the monitor. Once you see that it makes you offended, as a result of in the present day’s heavyweights are cowards.”
