Coach Jeff Mayweather says Vergil Ortiz Jr. didn’t deserve his win over WBC interim junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk final Saturday night time.
Mayweather’s view that Vergil (22-0, 21 KOs) didn’t deserve his 12-round majority choice has been echoed by many followers on social media, who noticed it as a plain old school theft.
Vergil Jr.: A Easy, On a regular basis Fighter
Ortiz Jr. confirmed that he was not an elite fighter however a easy, on a regular basis, come-forward sort of fighter. He’s being groomed like former Golden Boy fighter Jaime Munguia, matched in opposition to weaker opposition to get the massive cash-out. Vergil is now ready to get his cash-out in opposition to Terence Crawford, and it’s already being talked about taking place subsequent, packaged with a match between Shakur Stevenson and William Zepeda.
Final night time’s struggle proved that with widespread fighters like Vergil Ortiz, you need to knock them out to win as a result of they’re arguably handled like their champions. As we noticed final night time, successful a choice in opposition to fighters like Vergil is nearly not possible.
Jeff factors out that Bohachuk (24-2, 23 KOs) scored two knockdowns, which put him up 4 factors, and he received greater than three rounds, which ought to have given him the win.
Vergil, his followers, and promoter Oscar De La Hoya argued that his two knockdowns resulted from slips. Nevertheless, Bohachuk punched him within the head twice, which suggests punches prompted the slips.
The choose’s choice didn’t make sense to many followers as a result of Bohachuk was getting with the larger punching and had Vergil on the run within the final quarter of the competition.
“He’s a great fighter, however I don’t assume he actually received tonight,” stated Jeff Mayweather on his YouTube channel, speaking about Vergil Ortiz Jr’s extremely controversial win over Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday night time.
“Two knockdowns, you’re already down 4 factors. The opposite man received greater than three rounds,” stated Jeff about Bohachuk dropping Vergil twice and successful greater than three rounds. “I don’t imagine in 10-9. I imagine in 10-8,” stated Jeff when requested about the potential of Vergil having fought nicely sufficient to make his two knockdown rounds 10-9 as a substitute of 10-8.
“Anytime there’s a knockdown, you get two factors. It’s mechanically 10-8.
Money-Out with Crawford?
“I don’t assume he’s prepared for Terence Crawford,” stated Jeff about Vergil Ortiz. “He’s a man who has been constructed up with all these knockouts [against guys] no person actually is aware of how good the fighters he fought. Tonight, he had an actual fighter in entrance of him, and it confirmed,” stated Jeff about Vergil having been matched in opposition to poor opposition all through his 21-fight profession main as much as his controversial struggle with Bohachuk.
Crawford regarded so dangerous in his final struggle in opposition to WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov on August third that it’s laborious to foretell how he’ll do in opposition to Vergil.
Age is kicking in with Crawford, who turns 37 in September, and he’s in all probability going to benefit from the tens of millions he produced from the Madrimov struggle and keep inactive till 2025. If Vergil does struggle Crawford, it’ll be subsequent yr, and he’ll seemingly be 75% of what he was in opposition to Madrimov.
Crawford regarded like he misplaced 25% from his earlier struggle in opposition to Errol Spence by sitting inactive for 13 months, and he’ll lose extra by staying out of the ring till mid-2025. It’s laborious to be formidable once you’re already a millionaire and have a lot stuff you are able to do every day with all that cash.
Whereas Vergil is a median, sluggish, heavy-handed plodder, he’d have an opportunity of beating Crawford due to his age and inactivity. If Crawford had been nonetheless hungry and mentally motivated for the game, he’d struggle thrice a yr and destroy a fundamental fighter like Vergil.
Vergil Ortiz = Alfredo Angulo 2.0
Ortiz Jr. jogs my memory of a youthful model of Alfredo Angulo when he first began. Angulo had the identical fashion and heavy palms however was very fundamental and there to be hit. He did nicely till matched in opposition to more durable opposition, which is what is going to occur with Vergil. Angulo had higher energy than Vergil, however he was the identical fighter as him.
