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Vergil Ortiz Jr. (born March 25, 1998) is an American professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) interim super welterweight title since August 2024. As an amateur , he was a seven-time national champion and won the 110 pounds category at the USA's Junior Olympic National Championships in 2013.
The event originally scheduled for Ortiz Jr. vs Vargas on 28 March 2020 at The Forum, Inglewood, California and the unified super middleweight world titles between the current four-division champion, the Mexican Canelo Álvarez vs. the WBO champion, the British Billy Joe Saunders on 2 May 2020 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ortiz's boxing career has been waylaid by health scares over the last three years, but he believes he's put it behind him and is prepared to look good Saturday in a bout against Eimantas Stanionis ...
The Grand Prairie boxer stayed unbeaten with a ninth-round TKO at Dickies Arena.
Ortiz will end a 51-week absence from the ring on Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas, when he faces Michael McKinson. Welterweight Vergil Ortiz is back to remind boxing scene of his ability [Video ...
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
Welterweight contender Vergil Ortiz Jr. (16-0, 16 KOs) faces former champion Maurice Hooker (27-1-3) on Saturday, March 20 in the main event of a card streamed on DAZN.
This is a list of current male world boxing champions. ... Vergil Ortiz Jr. Interim champion 22-0 (21 KO) August 10, 2024 Terence Crawford Interim champion