Editing Carlos Ortiz (boxer) (section)

===Lightweight world champion===
Instead of going up in weight, like most [[boxing|boxers]] throughout history have done after losing the title in their original division, Ortiz went ''down'' in weight, and challenged world champion [[Joe Brown (boxer)|Joe Brown]] (also a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame). Ortiz won a 15-round decision over Brown on 21 April 1962 in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]], to win his second world title, this time in his second championship division. Ortiz defended with a 5-round knockout of Teruo Kosaka in Tokyo before making his Puerto Rican debut, with a 13-round knockout win over Doug Valiant to retain his title on 7 April 1963 in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]].

A knockout win in 14 rounds over another Hall of Famer, [[Gabriel Elorde]], ''Flash'' in the Philippines followed, and then a rematch with Lane, this time Ortiz retaining his world Lightweight title with a 15-round decision in San Juan. But in 1965 he went to Panama and fought yet another member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, [[Ismael Laguna]] who defeated him in 15 rounds to claim Ortiz's world Lightweight title. A rematch in San Juan followed, and Ortiz regained the world Lightweight title beating Laguna by a 15-round decision also.

1966 saw Ortiz draw with world Jr Welterweight champion [[Nicolino Locche]] in a ten-round non-title affair in Argentina, and retain his title vs Johnny Bizarro (KO in 12 in [[Pittsburgh]]), [[Cuban people|Cuban]] [[Sugar Ramos]] (another International Boxing Hall of Fame Member, KO in 5 rounds in Mexico City), and [[Filipino people|Filipino]] [[Flash Elorde]], also by KO in 14 at a New York rematch. The Ramos fight proved controversial, because the [[World Boxing Council|WBC]]'s president proclaimed at first that the punch with which Ortiz had beaten Ramos had been illegal, but he later reconsidered and gave Ortiz the title, and the knockout victory, back, with the condition that a rematch be fought in the future.

And so 1967 came, and Ortiz and Ramos met once again, this time in San Juan. Ortiz retained the title by a knockout in 4 rounds, and this time the bout went without any controversies. Then, he and Laguna fought a third time, and Ortiz retained his title by a 15-round decision in New York.