“Luis Ortis knocked out American Philip Penson in the first round”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
King-Kong’s rival was Giornimenan from the United States Philip Pennson (8–3–3, 2 KO), who failed to last even one round. In one of the episodes, Ortis got his opponent’s chin and sent him to Kanwas. The judge was forced to fix the knockout.
The Cuban had previously planned to complete his career because of a lack of strong rivals – he repeatedly complained that opponents were avoiding meetings with him because of high risk of defeat.
Ortis is a former WBA World Cup (2015-16) and a WBC title (2018, 2019) in the heavyweight weight. The Cuban twice tried to select a WBC belt from American Deontei Wilder, but failed.
In his career, King-Kong wrote a lot of victories over strong rivals in his asset-Charles Martin, Christian Hammer, Travis Kaufman, David Allen, Malik Scott, Tony Thompson, Briana Jennings and others.
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