Ex-Two Division World Champion Carlos Ortiz, Pleasure of Puerto Rico, Dies at 85

Ex-Two Division World Champion Carlos Ortiz, Pleasure of Puerto Rico, Dies at 85

By Robert Brizel, Head Actual Fight Media Boxing Correspondent

New York, NY (June fifteenth, 2022)–  Usually considered Puerto Rico’s biggest pound for pound fighter ever, former World Light-weight and World Mild Welterweight World champion Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rico’s first Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame inductee in 1991, has died at age 85 in New York Metropolis.

 A local of Ponce, Puerto, Rico, between 1955 and 1972, compiled knowledgeable document of 61 wins, seven losses and one draw, with 30 knockouts, and fought in 19 light-weight and light-weight welterweight world title bouts.

 Ortis was Puerto Rico’s first two-division champion, a feat completed later by Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez, Miguel Cotto, Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho, Felix Trinidad and others. A fan favourite, Ortiz was usually seen greeting followers at New York Metropolis space boxing occasions in recent times.

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