Vergil Ortiz Jr Information
Vergil Ortiz Jr. (March 25, 1998) is an American professional boxer born on March 25, 1998. He has held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) International middleweight title since 2021. During his amateur career, he won seven national titles and took first place in the 2013 Summer Olympics.
The Ring magazine honored him as the 2019 Prospect of the Year. All of Ortiz's victories have been via knockout, contributing to his stellar reputation as a puncher. Among welterweights, Ortiz Jr. is regarded as the 5th greatest in the world as of August 2022, according to The Ring magazine, BoxRec, and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB).
Except for one bout that went beyond the first round, Ortiz won all six contests via technical knockout. On September 16, 2017, he faced Cesar Valenzuela in his seventh fight, which he won via technical knockout in the second round. The contest was on the undercard of Canelo Álvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin I.
Ortiz fought Egidijus Kavaliauskas for the championship on August 14, 2021. The WBO put Kavaliauskas at No. 5, while the WBC placed him at No. 10. Ortiz won by technical knockout in the eighth round after putting Kavaliauskas down five times; Kavaliauskas became his first opponent to go the distance.
Ortiz Jr. faced Michael McKinson in a world welterweight championship eliminator on August 6, 2022. McKinson held the welterweight rankings of No. 5 on the WBO and No. 10 on the WBA. In the ninth round, Ortiz Jr. defeated McKinson via technical knockout.
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