A large card with Terence Crawford vs. Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Shakur Stevenson vs. William Zepeda might be occurring.
Turki Alalshikh’s Bold Plan
In response to DAZN, His Excellency Turki Alalshikh is occupied with a Crawford-Ortiz Jr. and Shakur-Zepeda combat card. Newly topped WBC interim Junior middleweight champion Vergil (22-0, 21 KOs) is on board with the concept of preventing Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) subsequent.
Final night time, Vergil defeated WBC interim 154-lb champion Bohachuk (24-2, 23 KOs) by a twelve-round majority choice on the Michelob Extremely Area in Las Vegas. The scores have been 113-113, 114-112 and 114-112.
“Let’s do it, man. I’m prepared for a problem,” mentioned Vergil Ortiz on a possible unification match between him and WBA Terence Crawford subsequent after his win over Serhii Bohachuk.
“I believe ‘Bud,” I bought what it takes to beat him.”
It’s a harmful combat for Ortiz and Crawford. In Bud’s final contest towards WBA junior middleweight champion Israil Madrimov on August third, he absorbed loads of proper fingers and appeared very common.
Image Superman in a room filled with kryptonite. That’s what it was like with Crawford. He wasn’t the identical fighter going up towards Madrimov as he had prior to now at 147. It might have been worse for Crawford if Madrimov threw many punches.
If Crawford fights Vergil Ortiz, he will likely be getting hit quite a bit as a result of the younger lion has a excessive work charge and by no means stops punching. Vergil’s energy isn’t on the extent of Madrimov or Bohachuk, however he makes up for it by throwing quite a bit.
Ideally, Vergil Jr. ought to combat Bohachuk in a rematch to clear up the controversy over their combat final Saturday night time, which noticed Ortiz Jr. getting dropped twice and taking a beating by the highly effective champion. But when that is about enterprise, it’s comprehensible why His Excellency would wish to make a combat between Crawford and Vergil Jr. subsequent moderately than wait on a dangerous rematch involving Bohachuk.
Turki can at all times make the Vergil vs. Bohachuk rematch after Ortiz fights Crawford. Even when Vergil is coming off a loss to Crawford, there’ll nonetheless be fan curiosity in a Vergil-Bohachuk match.
Stevenson’s Hardest Take a look at But
WBC light-weight champion Shakur Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) can have his hardest profession take a look at preventing unbeaten #1 William Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs), who will put withering stress on him all through.
If Shakur thought he had it unhealthy final November when he fought the highly effective knockout artist Edwin De Los Santos, simply wait and see what he suffers by means of towards Zepeda, The Mexican slugger has been knocking everybody out currently, and he makes a speciality of slicing off the ring towards fighters that try to maneuver.
