It’s exhausting to write down a couple of fighter you’ve been following for a very long time and see them lose for the primary time. Though Vergil Ortiz Jr. was given a 12-round majority determination victory over WBC interim junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk final Saturday evening in Las Vegas, in my view, Vergil misplaced 7-5. With these numbers, Ortiz couldn’t even get a draw.
My card gave me a results of 111-115 in favor of Bohachuk. Rounds 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 had been for Serhii Bohachuk, and rounds 2, 6, 10, 11 and 12 had been for Vergil Ortiz Jr.
After spherical 9, Vergil Jr. wanted to punch to complete the combat. He went out desperately, making an attempt to get to Bohachuk to attain a knockout shot, however couldn’t do it. Bohachuk stood as much as all of the pictures from Ortiz Jr. over the last three rounds, 10 by way of 12.
In latest weeks, we’ve seen fighters transfer up in weight, however only a few have carried their energy to the following division. Others have had critical issues taking the ability of their opponents in these weight lessons.
I’m apprehensive of fighters who transfer up in weight, significantly after they weigh greater than 140 kilos. It wouldn’t be simple to win three or extra world titles in numerous weight classes if the weigh-in had been moved to the identical day because the combat, in my view.
Vergil Ortiz and Terence Crawford won’t be as dominant in 154 as they had been each in 147.
Lengthy earlier than their most up-to-date fights, there was speak of a doable Crawford vs. Ortiz combat. In my opinion, followers received’t be as occupied with that combat as they had been after they had been at welterweight.
It’s a disgrace that Vergil Jr. and Crawford received their final victories in 154 controversially. If the outcomes of their fights had been hooked up to what occurred within the ring, the combat we must see subsequent can be Serhii Bohachuk vs. Israil Madrimov.
However it didn’t occur that manner as a result of the curiosity of those that management boxing didn’t have of their plans the names of the 2 fighters, Bohachuk and Madrimov, born exterior of the U.S. That’s the unhappy actuality of boxing nowadays.
Bohachuk is from Ukraine, and Madrimov is from Uzbekistan. They’ll’t promote within the U.S.
Regardless of all this, I need to admit that Vergil Jr. and Bohachuk delivered, in my view, which till right this moment is the Struggle of The 12 months. The followers had been supporting Vergil Jr., as regular, and Ortiz didn’t disappoint. He gave all the things he had and achieved by way of playing cards, a victory that, as a substitute of serving to him, presumably ended up spoiling his legacy.
If they will’t comply with make the Crawford vs. Ortiz combat, I think about a rematch with Bohachuk can be the obvious factor for Ortiz. The followers had been left with many doubts. Whether it is doable to make a rematch firstly of 2025, it will be the combat all of us wish to see.
