Jamaine Ortiz TKO3 Ambiorix Bautista ... New England junior welterweight Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz (20-2-1, 10 KOs) delivered a dominant performance on Saturday in Olrando, Florida, stopping late replacement Ambiorix Bautista (19-3, 11 KOs) in three rounds. “It’s a great win. I’m happy to be back and stay active on a great card,” Ortiz said moments after the victory. “It’s just another step for me to fight for a world title.” Bautista, a late replacement for the injured Steve Claggett, entered the fight riding a sixteen-bout winning streak and had never been stopped in his career. Standing 6’0, the Dominican looked to establish distance with his jab early, but Ortiz wasted no time cutting the ring off. Fighting initially out of the southpaw stance, Ortiz measured his man before switching orthodox to launch the first attack, trapping Bautista in the corner. In the second round, Ortiz began to impose his will—landing a right hand off a feint before following with a double jab and left hook. Bautista attempted to answer with his own hooks to the head and body, but Ortiz turned the exchanges in his favor, pinning the Dominican against the ropes and digging to both head and body.
Ortiz closed the show in round three, pouncing on Bautista and teeing off along the ropes. A glancing right hand to the top of Bautista’s head floored him for the first time. Though Bautista beat the count, Ortiz immediately went back to the body, dropping him again and forcing referee Alicia Collins to halt the contest at 1:32 of the round.With the victory, Ortiz, age 29, has his eyes set on the division’s elite—particularly WBC champion Subriel Matias and WBA champion Gary Antuanne Russell. “I’d like to fight Subriel Matias, a fellow Boricua,” declared the half-Dominican, half-Puerto Rican Ortiz. “I fought a fellow Dominican tonight. I don’t mind fighting my own kind, I think it makes for great rivalries. I'd like to challenge Subriel or Gary Russell.”
Ortiz is no stranger to the championship level, having dropped a razor-thin, disputed decision to rwo-division wolrd champion Teofimo Lopez in February 2024. With Saturday’s emphatic finish, “The Technician” inches closer to another crack at a world title later this year or in early 2026.
