This was to be the finest doubleheader of the year, Showtime's Saturday card, but this being boxing in 2012, it fell apart the way things fall apart. Now, it's one tightly wrapped tourniquet and one battle with Fight of the Year potential. The tourniquet: Victor Ortiz vs. Josesito Lopez at welterweight isn't a fight that much of anyone would request in other contexts, but as a salvage job -- and a salvage job with a lot riding on the outcome -- it's about as good as one could hope for. Ortiz was to face Andre Berto in a rematch of last year's Fight of the Year candidate, a match-up Showtime stole out from under bigger rival HBO in one of the better moves of the new leadership at the smaller network. One Berto bicep injury, one postponement, one positive test for a banned substance and one cancellation later, Golden Boy Promotions and Showtime found the always-exciting Lopez for Ortiz to fight, in a fine stroke. Lopez' pressure is like the pressu...
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