Mayweather vs. Ortiz: Why Vicious Victor Will Never Score Rematch with Money May

Just moments after getting knocked out by Floyd Mayweather, Victor Ortiz sat before the media in the press room at the MGM Grand Garden Arena and basically begged for a rematch. 

A rematch that, no matter how much Ortiz and his people ask, no matter how much they plead and prey, will never come. Not even if Oscar de la Hoya, the president of Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather's most invested handler, wants it to happen.

For one, "Money" has nothing left to prove against "Vicious" Victor. As controversial as the ending was, Mayweather would've won anyway, even if he'd given Ortiz an extra second or two to get his hands back in a better defensive position. Outside of that one flurry that Ortiz put together before the infamous head-butt, Mayweather dominated the fight, hitting Ortiz with incredible accuracy and frustrating his opponent with a brilliant defensive performance.

As profitable as a rematch may be, Mayweather really doesn't have anything to gain from getting back in the ring with Ortiz. He has the WBC Welterweight Championship belt that he wanted. At best, Mayweather would end up with a nice payday, but nothing to add to his resume. At worst, Ortiz lands a couple of lucky blows and hands him his first career defeat.

Either way, Mayweather has bigger fish to fry. As much as Mayweather may deny it, he wants Manny Pacquiao in the ring. Heck, he needs Pacquiao in the ring, both to solidify his legacy as the greatest boxer of his generation and his standing as perhaps the richest boxer of his generation.

Though he'd still have a ways to go to catch up to the global "Pac-Man" brand.

As far as Ortiz is concerned, Mayweather doesn't owe him any favors for knocking him out the way he did, not after Ortiz went in with a cheap head-butt of his own. Sure, Ortiz was apologetic, but no configuration of words could possibly overshadow the physical pain Mayweather endured from the illegal blow. Is it really in Mayweather's best interests to get back in the ring with a guy who bloodied the inside of his lip like that? Who lunged at him with an object much harder and more damaging than even a well-thrown punch in a boxing glove?

At 34, Mayweather's chief concern is not with giving handouts to young fighters, but rather with etching his name into the history books, fighting from time to time after he's blown all his winnings and keeping himself in the public eye.

Ortiz may not be too proud to beg, but Mayweather is more than proud enough to turn him down, which he will at every opportunity.

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