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Michael WoodsIt was made, and almost occurred last year, but then fate interceded. Fate, in the form of a PED positive…
Here's hoping that everyone's urine is clear and we get the heavyweight face off which looks on paper to be the stiffest of Deontay Wilders' pro career…
Deontay Wilder, the WBC heavyweight champ, versus Cuban smasher Luis Ortiz, now allowed to glove up after being punished for having a diuretic in his system before he and Wilder were to collide last November.
March 3, in Brooklyn, and on Showtime. (Yes, HBO is also showing fights that night, as is ESPN. Get that DVR warmed up, and remember to tape a half hour over…)
Here is the release:
Editor/publisher Michael Woods got addicted to boxing in 1990, when Buster Douglas shocked the world with his demolition of the thought to be impregnable Mike Tyson. The Brooklyn-based journalist Woods has covered the sport since then, for ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, ESPN New York, RING, and he was editor of TheSweetScience.com from 2007-2015. Woods is also an accomplished blow by blow and color man, having done work for Top Rank, DiBella Entertainment, EPIX, and for Facebook Fightnight Live since 2017. He now does work for PROBOX TV, the first truly global boxing network.