Victor Ortiz (born January 31, 1987, Garden City, Kansas) is a Mexican-American professional boxer and the current WBC World Welterweight Champion. He was previously in the Light welterweight division, where he held the USBA title and the WBO NABO title. The talented Ortiz, with a crowd-pleasing, aggressive style, two-fisted power and boyish charm, was made the 2008 ESPN Prospect of the Year.
He is currently rated as one of the "top two" welterweight boxers in the world by most sporting news and boxing websites, including The Ring, BoxRec.com, and ESPN. He is commonly known by the nickname "Vicious" Victor Ortiz. On September 17th, Victor Ortiz, will fight the former "number one" pound-for-pound best boxer in the world, Floyd Mayweather Jr., in one of the most eagerly anticipated boxing matches of 2011. The fight will be for Ortiz's WBC Welterweight title.
