Vergil Ortiz will be champion at 140 soon

[psychod1986]

Some don't think he has the experience too but don't he trains everyday and has spar champions, very talentive young man, has a bright future in boxing.

[Best Coast]

After watching him demolish normally durable Mauricio Herrera a lot of people are keeping an eye on a crowd-pleasing puncher like Vergil. Because it was on the Canelo-Jacobs undercard he got good exposure. I saw it at a local club and the crowd was making more noise for Ortiz's devastating KO than for the relatively low-action main event. Ortiz also blew out 35-3 Roberto Ortiz last September in 2 rounds. Even though the Herrera fight was at welter, Vergil said afterward he plans to go back to 140 to pursue a world title. I could see him going for a world title in early 2020.


http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/2 ... ko-victory

Vergil Ortiz Jr. continued to show why he is widely regarded as one of the best prospects in boxing on Saturday night.

Ortiz destroyed Mauricio Herrera in the third round of the co-feature of the Canelo Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs middleweight title unification fight at T-Mobile Arena. Herrera had never previously been stopped.

Ortiz Jr. (13-0, 13 KOs), 21, of Dallas, who was No. 4 on ESPN's top prospects list at the end of 2018, looked impressive taking it to Herrera in the first two rounds and then turned out the lights in the third.
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Ortiz had only moved up to welterweight as an accommodation to Herrera (24-9, 7 KOs), 38, a former world title challenger from Riverside, California, and looked very strong at the weight. But Ortiz said he planned to return to the junior welterweight division.

"I want to go back to 140 and get that world title," Ortiz said. "There's plenty of champions that I believe I can take on right now, and I hope after this performance everyone believes in that. If they tell me, hey Vergil, fight in a world title fight in two weeks, I'll take it right now.