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Lawrence Okolie is negotiating with two-time world heavyweight title challenger Luis ‘King Kong’ Ortiz. The previous WBO cruiserweight champion (21-1, 16 KOs) is taking a sluggish strategy to acclimating to the heavyweight division.
The Cuban Ortiz (34-3, 29 KOs) turns 46 on March 29 however remains to be harmful because of his energy, dimension, and technical abilities. His ring IQ and athletic skill are above the 6’5″ Okolie’s. If Ortiz lands on the uncoordinated ‘Sauce” Okolie, he might knock him out and smash his heavyweight ambitions.
Okolie vs. Ortiz In The Works
Okolie’s two heavyweight fights have been in opposition to Hussein Muhamed and Lukasz Rozanski. Each of these guys have been horrible and fully ineffective in growing Okolie in an actual sense to ramp him up for a world title shot. Nonetheless, if the concept is to feed Okolie tomato cans to make him look invincible, matching him in opposition to some of these fighters is the best way to go.
In Lawrence’s final combat at cruiserweight, he was thrashed by Chris Billiam-Smith, shedding a 12-round majority choice on Could 27, 2023. That combat was the writing on the wall for Okolie that his time was up as a ‘champion’ at Cruiserweight. Okolie wouldn’t do nicely with the gifted new crop of fighters, Jai Opetaia and David Nyika. Therefore, he moved as much as heavyweight to reinvent himself.
Ortiz is coming off a first-round knockout victory over Francisco Cordero final 12 months on January thirteenth in Colombia. “King Kong’ Ortiz had been inactive for 2 years earlier to that after shedding a detailed 12-round unanimous choice to former world champion Andy Ruiz on September 14, 2022.
Ortiz gave Ruiz pure hell in that combat, touchdown often on the chunky 268-pounder. If not for Ruiz dropping Luiz in rounds two and 7, the Cuban would have received. In Ortiz’s earlier combat on January 1, 2022, he knocked out former heavyweight champion Charles Martin within the sixth spherical.
Former cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie, now campaigning at heavyweight, is in talks to combat Luis Ortiz within the U.Ok., a supply informed ESPN. Ortiz, 45, returned final January in a shake-off-the-rust combat. It was his first combat since a aggressive loss to Andy Ruiz in 2022.
