By Mac Arnold
Fighting Side Editor

Man, I was sooooo wrong about the Floyd Weather Jr. vs. Victor Ortiz WBC welterweight title fight.

Sounds like it was a wild fight.

I guess I'll reserve judgment on whether "Money Mouth" finished Ortiz off with a dirty tactic until I see the fight replay.

From what I understand, Ortiz pulled a dirty trick out of his own playbook with the headbutt.

Anyway, I have to give credit where credit is due and that is "Money Mouth" is a great fighter. Whereas he steps up in the limelight, others, such as Ortiz for example, lay eggs.

And Ortiz, who is known for classic meltdowns, apparently had another one Saturday night. A hug and a kiss in ring center? What?

Thank you, Floyd for knocking him out.

Now would you please fight Manny Pacquiao already.

By Mac Arnold
Fighting Side Editor

Yep, you're going to hear it here first.

I'll probably be the only one that says this, and just hours before the Victor Ortiz vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. welterweight title fight.

Mayweather Jr. will dominate the early rounds to mid rounds and get flashy but then fall victim to carelessness.

Ortiz is going to catch him, I say. And everybody he's fought supposedly has gone down at some point in the fight.

"Money Mouth" is going to taste the canvas. He'll go reeling around the ring after he gets up and the champ, that's right, the WBC welterweight champ will finish him off.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I just have a feeling that the time off for "Money Mouth" at 34 is going to cause some ring rust.

While watching an HBO show last night on the fight related to "24/7," Sugar Ray Leonard, none other, kind of hinted at this saying Ortiz "won't catch him clean, that's too hard to do on Floyd, but the temple ..." (Sugar then put his fist up to his temple.)

Anyway, I'm venturing a mile out on a limb, I know, but it's much more fun this way rather than to predict a "Money Mouth" victory on a 12-round decision, which is more likely to occur.

Enjoy the fight. Should be a good one.

By Mac Arnold
Fighting Side Editor

Who would have thought Andre Berto would have returned so soon to such a rousing battle after being dethroned for his WBC Welterweight title by Victor Ortiz in April?

The Haitian-born pugilist put on yet another impressive bout and regained a welterweight title on Saturday night against a game Slovenian champ Dejan Zavec, who fights mostly in Germany but said in coming to fight in the United States that "he wasn't going to hide behind his title" in Europe.

After initially thinking the fifth-round stoppage was a bit premature, I rethought this belief once I saw the fifth round over again.

Zavec, despite his protests to his corner who threw in the towel basically, was in rough shape. His right eye was nearly shut and had a nasty 2-inch gash on the eyelid and another similar cut on his other eye.

There was some talk in the corner after the fifth round of Zavec (31-2 18 KOs, 1 NC) having trouble seeing, so the technical knockout was for the best, although I always like to see the defending champ go down swinging and not sitting on his stool.

Berto (28-1, 22 KOs) came out aggressive from the opening bell and threw every punch with bad intentions. His left hooks to Zavec's body were impressive and definitely took a toll on the Slovenian.

But to the former IBF champ's credit, Zavec gave back as good as he was getting in the exchanges and as he said during the post-fight interview, "I would liked to have seen how the fight went late if no injuries."

Good fight. Good stoppage.