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If Ortiz had pursued another vocation, he said he would have become an architect. Indeed, he constructed an unusual team. His trainers work day jobs, one a truck driver, one a landscaper, and his brother, when not in camp, drives a semi truck.

Ortiz’s career path seemed equally unorthodox. In 33 career fights, he lost twice and earned two draws, yet he knocked every single opponent down. The power in both his hands was evident, but his mental state begged questions, especially after he quit two years ago in a fight against Marcos Maidana. Ortiz said he went into that contest with a broken wrist and had shot himself with cortisone, without telling his trainers.

Still, doubt lingered, and even though Ortiz came into this fight as the W.B.C. titleholder, he said, “I don’t see myself as the champion.” And neither did anybody else.

That status went to Mayweather, boxing’s most divisive figure, loved and hated, sometimes all at once. Ortiz referenced often Mayweather’s “beautiful mouth,” and it worked overtime all month. In one odd twist, Mayweather took several shots at Oscar De La Hoya, the namesake of the company Mayweather hired to promote the fight, a boxing legend who recently left rehab.

For his part, De La Hoya said Mayweather picked opponents too old, too green, or too damaged. The undefeated Mayweather bristled at that suggestion, although the last time he faced a fighter age 25 or younger was in January 2001.

“I’ve been dominating the fight game since Victor Ortiz was 9 years old,” said Mayweather who called this training camp his longest ever and most grueling. “And I’m still sharp.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/sports/boxing-mayweather-knocks-out-ortiz-in-the-fourth-round.html