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Golden Boy Promotions received the final installment of its seven-figure contract buyout from heavyweight Luis King Kong Ortiz on Tuesday, making Ortiz a promotional free agent and bringing to an end the quick demise of what had been a fruitful relationship.Golden Boy Promotions and Luis Ortiz amicably parted ways, Golden Boy Promotions spokesman Stefan Friedman said in a statement. We are proud of the work that Golden Boy and Luis accomplished together culminating in his WBA heavyweight interim championship victory and subsequent title defenses. We wish Luis and his team all the best in the future.The statement for public consumption described an amicable separation, but that is not the case when the story is told privately.Ortiz and Golden Boy had ironed out a deal for Ortiz to defend his interim title against mandatory challenger Alexander Ustinov on Sept. 17 in the co-feature on the Canelo Alvarez-Liam Smith HBO PPV card at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. However, after making a deal, Ortizs camp tried to renegotiate for more money, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.Golden Boy declined to pay more than it had already agreed to and said Ortiz could sit or buy out his contract if his camp met the companys asking price. Ultimately, Ortizs team came up with the low seven-figure payment -- in multiple installments -- and bought out the agreement.According to those close to Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya, he was disgusted by the turn of events but took the attitude that life was too short to work with people who did not honor their agreement.It became clear that Ortiz (25-0, 22 KOs) and Golden Boy were close to going their separate ways last week when the fight with the 39-year-old Ustinov (33-1, 24 KOs) was put up for auction at a purse bid and Golden Boy did not make an offer. Instead, there was only one bidder, Vlad Hrunov on behalf of Russian promoter Andrey Ryabinskys World of Boxing. With nobody else in the room to force a bidding war, he bid the minimum of $600,000.Ortiz is entitled to 60 percent, meaning he will earn $360,000, and Ustinov is entitled to 40 percent, meaning his purse will be $240,000.With the fight tentatively slated for Nov. 19 in Moscow, Las Vegas or Minsk, the capital of Ustinovs native Belarus, Golden Boy said Ortiz would likely earn less than he was offered for the appearance on Sept. 17 because of the tax burden he would face fighting overseas -- not to mention he likely wont be granted the perks reserved for fighters on their own promoters event.Golden Boy did a superb job handling Ortiz, a 37-year-old southpaw who defected from Cuba and lives in Miami, during their time together. After he knocked out Lateef Kayode in the first round in 2014 to win a vacant interim title, Ortiz tested positive for a banned substance. He was stripped of the title, suspended and fined and the result was changed to a no decision. But despite so many being down on Ortiz, Golden Boy stuck by him and when he returned got him one tuneup fight and then another shot at the interim belt.He knocked out overmatched Matias Ariel Vidondo in the third round on the HBO PPV undercard of Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux to claim the interim title and has made two defenses. Golden Boy got both fights on HBO as main events, a sensational seventh-round knockout of contender Bryant Jennings in December followed by a sixth-round destruction of Tony Thompson on March 5, leading many to view Ortiz as the best heavyweight in the world. No one from Ortizs team could be reached for comment. KWaun Williams Super Bowl Jersey . Los Angeles star goalie survived those perilous gymnastics with no problem, and he eventually backstopped the Kings to a skid-snapping win. 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Everton manager Roberto Martinez says that keeping Baines at the club is a "massive boost and exciting for the future" because he brings "maturity and football knowledge in a very specialized position on the pitch" and an "infectious and positive influence to the rest of the squad. If theres such a thing as a virtuoso on the football field, Vanderbilts Zach Cunningham is your guy. He plays the game so naturally, so instinctively and so consistently.The 6-4, 230-pound redshirt junior linebacker misses tackles the way Eric Clapton misses notes on his guitar.It doesnt happen.Fittingly, Cunningham plays a little guitar himself, going back to his youth at Birminghams New Life Evangelistic Worship Center. He taught himself to play and has since taken a few guitar classes at Vanderbilt. He prefers what he calls jazz type stuff but can play a little bit of everything.As humble as he is talented, Cunningham doesnt hesitate when asked whether hes a better football player or guitar player.Football, for sure, he says.Its doubtful anybody whos tried to block him this season would disagree, regardless of whether theyve heard him play the guitar. Thats because Cunningham has been unblockable. He wrecked just about everything Georgia attempted to do last week with a career-high 19 tackles in Vanderbilts 17-16 win over the Bulldogs, the Commodores first win at Sanford Stadium in a decade.His fourth-down stop of Isaiah McKenzie for no gain to preserve the win is the kind of play Cunningham has been making since he was a gangly 175-pound linebacker at Pinson Valley High School just outside of Birmingham, Alabama.Ive been seeing him do that forever, said Pinson Valley coach Matt Glover. I once saw him take the quarterback, then the fullback with one arm and still get out to the pitch man to make the play. The funny thing is that when he first came to me, he was a running back and we had to talk him into playing linebacker. He didnt like it at first, but looks like he made the right decision.There might be bigger names on the defensive side in college football, and there might be flashier players who get more headlines. But good luck in finding a more complete (or productive) defender than Cunningham, who ranks fourth nationally with 81 total tackles and second nationally with 13 tackles for loss. Against SEC competition, hes been even better with 55 total tackles and nine tackles for loss in four league games.Go back and watch that last play against Georgia, and you dont even see Zach in the picture, Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason marveled. All of a sudden, you see a blur and a snatch. You look up and youre like, Where did he come from? You dont coach that.Hes the best linebacker nobodys talking about.In truth, theyre talking about him, just not as much as they probably should be. One NFL scout told ESPN.com Cunningham had shown the versatility to play in a 3-4 or 4-3 scheme at the next level and was moving up draft boards weekly because of his ability to make plays sideline to sideline. The pro scouts also love Cunninghams length, and even though hes already put on 50 pounds since his high school days, he has the frame to put on 10 or 20 more.Cunningham redshirted his first year at Vanderbilt in 2013, but it didnt take him long to make an impression on Mason. During their first season together in 2014, Vanderbilt was playing Georgia, and Cunningham on three occasions tackled Todd Gurley in one-on-one situations.It was Zach and Gurley one-on-one. It wasnt Zach and somebody else and Gurley, just Zach, and he made the play all three times, Mason recalled. Guys in the NFL dont tackle Gurley in that situation, and it made me realize how special this young man can be. He sees things before they happen and has so many dimensions to him as a player, but what separates him is his ability to close and finish.Cunningham, whos majoring in economics, credits Mason and his inside linebackers ccoach, Chris Marve, for helping him to become a better tactician and better student of the game.ddddddddddddI watch film differently than I used to and have a lot more knowledge of the game and what offenses are trying to do, said Cunningham, who was a first-team All-SEC performer last season. Theyve helped bring more knowledge to me, and thats helped me play even faster and pick up quicker on what teams are trying to do.Marve, who was also an All-SEC linebacker at Vanderbilt, said its always easier to coach someone whos as passionate about the game as Cunningham.Hes in love with the game of football, and you see that every day in the way he prepares, Marve said. Hes always putting in extra time, but he also does a lot of things naturally that you dont see in a lot of players. You hear guys say they want to be great. Zach practices that way and approaches every game that way.Vanderbilt has had a ton of success with players from the state of Alabama. Earl Bennett, Zac Stacy, Jordan Matthews and Reshard Langford all come to mind. Cunningham also managed to get out of the state and signed as part of James Franklins last class at Vanderbilt before Franklin left for Penn State.Glover said hes never seen a player blow up in recruiting circles the way Cunningham did his senior year. He was still 17 when he graduated high school, and it wasnt until the eighth game of his senior season that he received his first SEC offer. The offers came flooding in after that, and Cunningham had Miami, Oregon, South Carolina and Tennessee all hot on his trail, along with Vanderbilt.Alabama and Nick Saban were interested, but the Crimson Tide wanted Cunningham to grayshirt -- waiting a semester to enroll -- and take that time to bulk up and get stronger. Auburn offered initially, but in the transition from Gene Chizik to Gus Malzahn, Glover said the Tigers informed him late that they were pulling the scholarship offer because they only had one left at linebacker and were saving it for Reuben Foster.The frenzy in the final hour didnt faze Cunningham, who wasnt a big name entering his senior season because he didnt spend the summer going to all of the camps and combines. Besides, he and his family had already set their sights on Vanderbilt and the world-class education the Commodores could offer.I just felt like I would develop more fully as a player and a person at Vanderbilt, Cunningham said. I fell in love with everything about Vanderbilt. It was more than just football.He concedes that being an economics major at Vanderbilt keeps him up late at nights studying but added, I kind of knew what I was getting myself into. Id talked to some guys who had majored in economics here before me and knew what was coming my way, but I wanted the challenge.What he doesnt want is engaging in any debate about where he ranks in the SEC or nationally with other linebackers. Hell leave that for everybody else.I dont really focus on stuff like that, Cunningham said. Im more focused on going out there and doing my best to help my team win.But, then, thats vintage Cunningham, the same guy who as a senior in high school got up to speak at the Mr. Football awards banquet in Montgomery, Alabama, and one of the first people he thanked was his home economics teacher for letting him borrow an iron to iron his shirt.Ive coached a lot of good ones, Mason said, but Zach is one of those guys who makes a lot of things right.And thats whether hes blowing up a play on fourth down or blowing it out on his guitar. ' ' '