Vergil Ortiz will be champion at 140 soon
Posted: 21 May 2019, 17:17
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.
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.