Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Serhii Bohachuk wil happen on August tenth in Las Vegas. Ortiz Jr. (21-0, 21 KOs) will problem Bohachuk (24-1, 23 KOs) for his WBC interim junior Middleweight title in a giant step-up combat for the Golden Boy-promoted fighter. The ringwalks dwell on DAZN for Ortiz Jr. vs. Bohachuk are scheduled for 11 p.m. ET / 4 a.m. UK with the occasion getting underway at 8 p.m. ET / 1 a.m. UK. These timings are topic to alter.
Bohachuk is a greater fighter than Vergil Ortiz Jr’s initially deliberate foe, former WBO junior middleweight Tim Tszyu, and he’s an actual menace to his undefeated file.
The 26-year-old Ortiz has solely fought thrice since shifting as much as 154 final yr, and he’s by no means fought anybody remotely as proficient as Bohachuk throughout his eight-year professional profession.
Bohachuk captured the WBC interim junior middleweight title with a twelve-round unanimous choice win over champion Brian Mendoza on March thirtieth on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.
Mendoza had given Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora huge issues in his two earlier fights.
For Vergil Ortiz to win this combat, he might want to determine tips on how to decelerate Bohachuk’s high-volume offense. He’s not able to matching the Ukrainian fighter’s excessive output or technical sport.
Ortiz isn’t constructed to throw a variety of punches the watch Bohachuk does, and his technical sport hasn’t been developed. Vergil has been getting by along with his energy, which has been greater than sufficient to beat the extent of opposition his promoters at Golden Boy have been feeding him.
Vergil’s final six opponents:
– Thomas Dulorme
– Fredrick Lawson
– Michael McKinson
– Egidijus Kavaliauskas
– Maurice Hooker
– Samuel Vargas
The opposition that Ortiz has been going through will not be on the extent of Bohachuk, and that’s what makes this combat tough to foretell as a result of there’s no step up degree opponent on Vergil’s resume that he would wish to gauge him.
It’s not preferrred for Ortiz to go from beating Dulorme and Lawson at 154 to taking over a proficient champion like Bohachuk, arguably higher than the present WBC champ, Sebastian Fundora.
Bohachuk’s greatest profession wins have a come towards Mendoza, Patrick Allotey, Nathaniel Gallimore and Tyrone Brunson.
The distinction between Bohachuk and Vergil is that Serhii had a superb novice background in Ukraine earlier than turning professional in 2017, and that provides him an enormous benefit in expertise towards high quality fighters.
Bohachuk vs. Ortiz Jr. combat date, begin time
- Date: Saturday, August 10
- Time: 8 p.m. ET / 1 a.m. UK (Sunday)
- Primary occasion ringwalks (approx): 11 p.m. ET / 4 a.m. UK (Sunday)
Bohahchuk Ortiz Jr. combat card
- Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Serhii Bohachuk; For Bohachuk’s interim WBC world tremendous welterweight title
- Charles Conwell vs. Khiary Grey; Tremendous welterweight
- Kenneth Sims Jr. vs. Jair Valtierra; Tremendous light-weight
- Gabriela Fundora vs. Daniela Ansenjo; For Fundora’s IBF ladies’s world flyweight title
- Joel Iriarte vs. TBA; Welterweight
- Ema Kozin vs. Cecelia Braekhus; For Kozin’s WBO and WBC ladies’s tremendous welterweight titles
- Eric Priest vs. Luka Lozo; Middleweight
- Johnny Canas vs. TBA; Light-weight
- Jordan Fuentes vs. James Mulder; Tremendous bantamweight
- Figo Gonzalez vs. Jose Gonzalez; Bantamweight
- Jennah Creason vs. Kelsey Wickstrum; Girls’s welterweight
