Promoter Oscar De La Hoya took to social media to angrily defend his fighter, Vergil Ortiz Jr., over his theft victory towards WBC interim Junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk final Saturday night time. De La Hoya tagged Vergil Jr. in his venomous publish.
Nonetheless reeling over the backlash his fighter Vergil Jr. (22-0, 21 KOs) is receiving from the boxing world over his controversy, De La Hoya posted an image of the CompuBox Stats, which didn’t painting a flattering view of Ortiz Jr’s struggle.
Stats Don’t Lie
The stats affirmed what followers had seen from the struggle: Bohachuk (24-2, 23 KOs) had gotten the higher of Vergil Jr. however was shafted by the judging crew from Nevada.
“You don’t know [blank] about boxing!! And the brand new!!!!!!
@VergilOrtiz,” stated De La Hoya on X, reacting to the CompuBox stats.
De La Hoya’s lashing out at CompuBox doesn’t make a lot sense as a result of it’s stats, and it’s not their fault that they don’t flatter Vergil to make him appear to be he gained the struggle. Even when they did, the followers noticed what occurred that night time and overwhelmingly seen Bohachuk because the true winner.
After the struggle, De La Hoya and Vergil’s coach, Robert Garcia, stated that they need Terence Crawford subsequent for Ortiz Jr. In the event that they select to do this with out doing the correct factor and working it again towards Bohachuk, the PPV numbers for the Crawford struggle gained’t be good.
Having Vergil Jr. again right into a struggle towards Crawford after a controversial determination would damage the occasion’s gross sales as a result of followers would see it as a tainted struggle. This isn’t solely due to Vergil’s controversial win but additionally due to Crawford, who’s coming off of a questionable 12-round determination towards WBA Junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov on August third in Los Angeles.
Madrimov landed the more durable, cleaner photographs in each spherical of the struggle and had Crawford trying previous. All Crawford might do was throw Jabs, and it wasn’t almost sufficient to outweigh the correct arms he was getting hit with by Madrimov. These photographs have been snapping Crawford’s head sideways.
The Name for a Rematch
As a substitute of De La Hoya getting mad at CompuBox, he ought to do the correct factor by having Vergil give Bohachuk a rematch to clear up the controversy. If De La Hoya believes Vergil gained and is the following celebrity, he ought to do the rematch. If Vergil can’t beat Bohachuk with out the judges’ assist, he gained’t go far within the sport.
He can’t win controversial selections each time, and he can have many issues towards the opposite high fighters at 154 as a result of he’s simply an on a regular basis run-of-the-mill slugger.
As one in every of our writers talked about, Vergil Ortiz Jr. is a modern-day Alfredo Angulo, and that’s the fact. He’s a weaker model of a younger Angulo as a result of that man might punch when he was younger.
