The Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez vs. Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez doubleheader is reportedly potential for early 2025, on February twenty second, in a Riyadh Season occasion in Saudi Arabia.
WBC interim junior middleweight champion Vergil Jr’s coach, Robert Garcia, informed Boxingscene a few potential doubleheader. It will be an attention-grabbing combat card.
Some followers is perhaps vital about Bam Rodriguez preventing the 37-year-old Chocolatito Gonzalez (54-4, 42 KOs) as a result of this extremely in style legend is effectively previous his prime, nearing 38, and has misplaced two out of his final 4 fights.
The 24-year-old Bam Rodriguez is far youthful than Chocolatito, and there’s a mismatch in the place the 2 fighters are at this level of their careers. Bam has already crushed quite a lot of older fighters, and it might be unhappy to see him utilizing Chocolatito as a stepping stone.
Will Ennis Keep at 154?
If it does occur, it might be attention-grabbing to see if Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) chooses to remain at 154 or if that is only a one-off. He says he desires to unify the welterweight division by capturing all 4 belts, but it surely doesn’t seem like that may occur with out the Saudis’ assist in luring the opposite champions to combat him.
If Ennis chooses to remain at 154 if he efficiently defeats Vergil Ortiz (22-0, 21 KOs), he’ll put himself ready for large fights towards Terence Crawford, Sebastian Fundora, Israil Madrimov, Bakhram Murtazaliev, and Tim Tszyu.
There are infinite prospects for big-money fights obtainable to the 27-year-old Boots Ennis if he chooses to remain at junior middleweight after a possible combat towards Vergil Jr. on February twenty second.
Vergil is coming off a controversial 12-round majority determination win over WBC interim 154-lb champion Serhii Bohachuk on August tenth in Las Vegas.
The boxing world noticed it as a theft, believing that the judges gave the extra in style Ortiz Jr. the win as a result of he was youthful, higher identified, and had the next upside than the overseas fighter Bohachuk. What made the win worse was Vergil selecting to not give Bohachuk a rematch to clear up the controversy.
Regardless of being a world champion and seen as having a greater future, Boots Ennis will probably be the B-side towards Vergil Jr. He may have to drop him a number of instances or knock him out to get the win. The excellent news is the combat might occur in Riyadh fairly than Las Vegas, however Ennis would nonetheless be the B-side.
Ennis is defending his IBF welterweight title subsequent month in a rematch towards Karen Chukhadzhian on November ninth on the Wells Fargo Middle in Philadelphia. ‘Bam’ Rodriguez (20-0, 13 KOs) is defending his WBC tremendous flyweight title towards Pedro Guevara (42-4-1, 22 KOs) within the co-feature on the cardboard.
