Vergil Ortiz Jr. believes he’s received a great opportunity of preventing Errol Spence Jr. on the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, in 2025 in the event that they each win their upcoming fights this 12 months.
(Credit score: Golden Boy / Cris Esqueda)
Upcoming Challenges for Ortiz Jr. and Spence
The unbeaten Ortiz Jr. (21-0, 21 KOs) should beat WBC interim junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk (24-1, 23 KOs) on August tenth on the Michelob Extremely Enviornment in Las Vegas.
For his half, Spence (28-1, 22 KOs must defeat WBC/WBO 154-lb champion Sebastian Fundora if that struggle occurs. That match hasn’t but been negotiated, however they’ll struggle later this 12 months except one modifications their thoughts.
Ortiz, 26, additionally desires to struggle Terence Crawford in 2025, believing that match will occur. He thinks Crawford will defeat WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov on August third with none points.
Terence hasn’t spoken of desirous to struggle Ortiz. He desires to maneuver as much as 168 to problem Canelo Alvarez for his undisputed tremendous middleweight championship. That struggle will make much more cash than a match in opposition to Ortiz.
“I feel the struggle that makes that occur is the Spence struggle. If he will get by means of Fundora and he’s wholesome, we are able to run it at Cowboy Stadium,” mentioned Vergil Ortiz Jr. to the media about his perception {that a} struggle with Errol Spence Jr. is feasible subsequent 12 months.
Ortiz Jr.’s Defensive Considerations
Vergil Jr. is banking on the fights with Spence and Crawford taking place subsequent 12 months, however there’s an actual chance that every one three will lose their subsequent fights. Bohachuk, 29, is a significantly better fighter than anybody Ortiz has fought throughout his profession, and he’ll make the most of his leaky protection.
Ortiz was damage early in his struggle in opposition to Egidijus Kavaliauskas in August 2021, and the one cause he made it out of that struggle with out getting stopped is as a result of he gassed out.
Ortiz’s three fights since then have been in opposition to marginal opposition, Michael McKinson, Fredrick Lawson, and Thomas Dulorme.
