Promoter Oscar De La Hoya confirmed in the present day that he’s concerned with placing collectively a struggle between Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis for 2026 in the event that they each win their subsequent struggle.
“Down the Line” Creates Doubt
Ortiz Jr. (23-0, 21 KOs) has to win his struggle towards Erickson Lubin (27-2, 19 KOs) on November 8, and Ennis (34-0, 30 KOs) should defeat Uisma Lima for the struggle Ortiz Jr.- Ennis contest to occur.
What has some boxing followers suspicious about whether or not De La Hoya is actually concerned with making that struggle is his saying that Vergil Jr. and ‘Boots’ can struggle “down the road.” When somebody says that, it’s interpreted to imply a long-term future occasion.
When you’re Ennis’ promoter, Eddie Hearn, you must learn that remark to imply that Oscar isn’t desperate to make the struggle between Vergil and ‘Boots.’ There’s no different solution to view.
Ortiz Vulnerability Now Clear
It’s comprehensible why De La Hoya would change his thoughts about matching his fighter, Vergil Jr., towards Ennis. Ortiz has been in back-to-back grueling fights towards Israil Madrimov and Serhii Bohachuk, which he got here near dropping. These fights confirmed that Ortiz Jr. could be very beatable, and never the fighter that De La Hoya makes him out to be.
“Vergil desires to struggle the highest guys. Lubin is a harmful fighter. I really feel Vergil, at 154, no one beats him. If Vergil wins towards Lubin and there’s a struggle to be made towards ‘Boots,’ then that’s what we’re going to go after,” mentioned promoter Oscar De La Hoya to Golden Boy Boxing about desirous to make a struggle between Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.
“It will be an enormous struggle. I really feel Vergil Ortiz towards ‘Boots’ is an excellent struggle down the road, however Lubin is true in entrance of Vergil. It needs to be an ideal struggle for Vergil,” mentioned De La Hoya.
