By: Sean Crose
Golden Boy rising junior middleweight star Vergil Ortiz stepped into the ring in Texas Saturday evening to face the proficient and well-regarded Erickson Lubin in a battle for an interim title. Though Ortiz was clearly the favourite strolling in Lubin was the type of fighter one merely couldn’t brush off or take flippantly. This was very true if – like Ortiz – a fighter was trying to stand up the ranks. It could not have been a super-sized foremost occasion for a Texas boxing card, however Ortiz versus Lubin definitely made for an evening of high quality boxing (no less than on paper).
But it shouldn’t have been shocking that the battle ended within the second spherical, but it in some way was. Ortiz had been hammering on his man on the ropes all through the primary spherical and a lot of the second. Ortiz actually turned up the warmth and began touchdown repeated energy pictures when the ref, seeing that Lubin wasn’t responding like he ought to, stepped in and correctly stopped the battle. It was an excellent, if not transient efficiency from Ortiz the sort that boxing followers are apt to like. Make no mistake about it, Ortiz is a scary man certainly. He additionally has ability to match with this appreciable energy. Any fighter who takes this man flippantly does so at his personal threat.
“I simply capitalized on his errors,” Ortiz stated afterward. “The changes I made had been simply be cautious. That’s it.” Certainly Ortiz oozed confidence. “I’m solely going to get higher.” To make issues much more attention-grabbing, Jaron Boots Ennis entered the ring and made it clear together with Ortiz {that a} main battle was so as. “It’s the perfect battle in boxing,” stated Ennis earlier than every fighter engaged in smack speak. Ought to this battle go down, will probably be one value trying ahead to…a battle the place the perfect is combating the perfect.
