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| Date | November 23, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title(s) on the line | WBC Heavyweight Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tale of the tape | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Wilder wins via 7th-round knockout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deontay Wilder vs. Luis Ortiz II was a professional boxing match contested on November 23, 2019, [1] for the WBC heavyweight championship. [2] [3]
After his first round knockout of Dominic Breazeale in May 2019, Deontay Wilder was linked with both a rematch with Lineal champion Tyson Fury and an undisputed bout with Anthony Joshua. However he opted for a rematch with Luis Ortiz who he had stopped in March 2018. [4] [5] This was criticised by Dillian Whyte who had been the top ranked contender with the WBC for more than 600 days, without getting a title shot. [6]
It was expected that Ortiz would push Wilder with the BBC Sport boxing correspondent Mike Costello saying "I see not necessarily a similar fight to last time but I do see Ortiz again giving Wilder plenty to think about" [7]
Wilder was 7-1 favorite going into the bout. [8]
Ortiz clearly outboxed Wilder for the first six rounds. However in the 7th round Wilder landed a straight right that knocked Ortiz down and he failed to beat the count. [9] [10]
At the time of the stoppage Ortiz led on all three scorecards with two scores of 55–59 and one of 56–58. Both the AP and The Guardian had it a shutout of 54–60 to Ortiz. [11]
“Next we have Tyson Fury in the rematch,” Wilder said in the ring after the bout “Then I want unification. I want one champion, one face and one heavyweight champion – Deontay Wilder.”
A month after the bout the rematch with Tyson Fury was confirmed. [12]
| Weight Class | vs. | Method | Round | Time | Notes | ||
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| Main card | |||||||
| Heavyweight |  Deontay Wilder (c) | def. |  Luis Ortiz | KO | 7(12) | 2:51 | Note 1 |
| Super featherweight |  Léo Santa Cruz (c) | def. | Miguel Flores | UD | 12 | Note 2 | |
| Super bantamweight | Brandon Figueroa (c) | draw | Julio Ceja | SD | 12 | Note 3 | |
| Bantamweight | Luis Nery | canceled |  Emmanuel Rodríguez | -/12 | Note 4 | ||
| Undercard | |||||||
| Super featherweight | Eduardo Ramírez | def. | Leduan Barthelemy | TKO | 4(10) | 2:59 | |
| Super featherweight |  Viktor Slavinskyi | def. | Rigoberto Hermosillo | UD | 6 | ||
| Lightweight |  John Gemino | def. | Arnold Alejandro | KO | 5(6) | 1:45 | |
| Super lightweight | Omar Juarez | def. | Kevin Shacks | KO | 6 | 1:59 | |
| Super featherweight | José Manuel Gomez | def. | Daniel Placeres | RTD | 3(6) | ||
| Cruiserweight | Dustin Long | def. | Marsellos Wilder | KO | 4(6) | 1:51 | |
| Featherweight | Angel Alejandro | def. | Francisco Rodríguez | UD | 6 | ||
| Super bantamweight | Shon Mondragon | def. |  Juan Centeno | UD | 4 | ||
| Welterweight | Vito Mielnicki Jr. | def. | Marklin Bailey | TKO | 2(4) | 2:31 | |
^Note 1 For WBC heavyweight title
^Note 2 For vacant WBA (Super) super featherweight title
^Note 3 For WBA (Regular) super bantamweight title
^Note 4 For WBC Silver bantamweight title
The fight was televised on PPV's Fox in the United States. [14]
| Country | Broadcaster | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free-to-air | Cable / pay television | PPV | Stream | |
 United States (host) | — | Fox Sports | Fox Sports Go | |
| Fox Deportes | ||||
| International (unsold markets) | — | FITE TV [15] | ||
 Australia [16] | — | Main Event | — | |
 Austria | — | DAZN [17] | ||
 Germany | ||||
 Spain | ||||
 Switzerland | ||||
 Brazil [18] | — | Fox Sports | — | Fox Play |
 Canada [19] | — | Sportsnet PPV | ||
 France [20] | — | Canal+ Sport | — | My Canal |
 Indonesia | Mola TV [21] | — | Mola TV On Demand | |
 Timor-Leste | ||||
 Ireland | — | Sky Sports [22] | — | Sky Go |
 United Kingdom | ||||
 Japan [23] | — | WOWOW | — | WOWOW |
 Kazakhstan [24] | Khabar | — | Khabar | |
| — | ESPN [25] | — | WatchESPN | |
| Mexico | Azteca 7 | — | Azteca En Vivo | |
 Panama [26] | RPC-TV | — | Medcom Go | |
 Poland [27] | TVP Sport | — | TVP Stream | |
 Russia [28] | Match TV | |||
 Turkey [29] | DMAX | — | DMAX | |
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