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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.
Cien Años" (English: "One Hundred Years") is a song written by Mexican songwriters Rubén Fuentes and Alberto Cervantes. It was originally recorded in 1953 by Pedro Infante , who also performed the song in the 1954 film Cuidado con el amor in a famous scene where his character sings it for Elsa Aguirre 's character. [ 1 ]
Vergil Ortiz Jr. celebrates after defeating Egidijus Kavaliauskas at The Ford Center at The Star on Aug. 14, 2021, in Frisco, Texas. (Photo by Kevin Estrada/Getty Images) ...
On Sunday, five days before he’d put his 15-fight KO streak on the line against Samuel Vargas, Ortiz was on Instagram playing the guitar and taking requests from his fans.
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 ...
[4] [5] Vargas lost via TKO in the seventh round. On 25 July 2020, Vargas was the first boxer to go more than six rounds with undefeated prospect Vergil Ortiz Jr, losing by TKO in the seventh round. [6] Vargas' next fight would be against undefeated Conor Benn in the Copper Box Arena in London on 10 April 2021.
Pedro Infante in 1949. Pedro Infante was born 18 November 1917 in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, [1] [2] the son of Delfino Infante García (24 December 1880 – 17 March 1955), who played the double bass in a band, and Maria del Refugio Cruz Aranda.