Comments Thread For: Vergil Ortiz Jnr manager: "Call me ... we want this [Ennis] fight"

[BoxingUpdates]

Vergil Ortiz Jnr's manager challenges the claim from promoter Oscar De La Hoya that they're "moving on" from the Jaron "Boots" Ennis fight.
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[Gary Coleman]

The plot thickens.

[Theshotyoudontsee]

It's promoter games. As I just said on another post, many people are apparently not realizing that Boots makes more in a 55/45 split with an Ortiz PPV than he would against another no hoper. Ortiz will make similar if not better money against Fundora or Spence. Boots has hometown fans but he isn't a massive name or a massive draw. If he beats Ortiz he makes more and he legitamizes himself, it is a no brainer. Boots will almost certainly have to force Hearn to make it, and he should.

If Boots ducks this than it looks really bad on him. Ortiz and his team have now said it publically, they want this fight. Hearn and Boots need to come out and say the same and force Oscar's hand.

[Butt stuff]

Yesssss. This is what we wanna hear. Great attitude, we need more of this in boxing.

[NoAgendaBoxing]

Please, not buying this good cop bad cop thing Rick and Oscar are doing. This is the same guy that just said Vergil needs 10 million to fight Boots. Before that he said Boots missed his turn or something to that effect. Five minutes after he was in the Ring with Boots he was calling out Spence. He doesn't want to fight.

[NoAgendaBoxing]

. Ortiz will make similar if not better money against Fundora or Spence.

More mythical Mexican fanbase gibberish. Ortiz, who makes lower purses, sells less tickets, and gets lower gates than Boots somehow makes the same or more fighting against Fundora, another fighter that makes less, sells less, and has lower gates than Boots lol. And BTW, Fundora is fighting Keith when he heals up.

The only real leverage Ortiz has is that they know Boots wants the fight badly and they don't...and they aren't going to sell their zero for cheap. Multiple reports said Stanionis had to make more than Boots to agree to the fight. Brian Norman turned down 1.7 mil to fight on a woman's undercard and fight in Japan as a champion for 250k. These guys are great talkers. If Vergil keeps playing he's gonna lose to someone else for a lot less money.

[Afi23]

The usual boxing shenanigans.

I hope Boots and Ortiz realize that not every fighter gets the huge pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (Crawford vs Canelo) after their superfight was delayed (Crawford vs Spence) because of boxing politics.

[LAchargers373]

Turki doesn’t want the fight cause Bootsy disrespected him already by turning down a huge offer for the fight.

[Oregonian]

It's promoter games. As I just said on another post, many people are apparently not realizing that Boots makes more in a 55/45 split with an Ortiz PPV than he would against another no hoper. Ortiz will make similar if not better money against Fundora or Spence. Boots has hometown fans but he isn't a massive name or a massive draw. If he beats Ortiz he makes more and he legitamizes himself, it is a no brainer. Boots will almost certainly have to force Hearn to make it, and he should.

If Boots ducks this than it looks really bad on him. Ortiz and his team have now said it publically, they want this fight. Hearn and Boots need to come out and say the same and force Oscar's hand.

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I’m guessing you missed the part where Boots went up right to Ortiz after his fight and called him out in front of everyone? Did you not see that? Ortiz then proceeded to say he wants to fight Spence.

What else is Boots supposed to do?

[Oregonian]

Turki doesn’t want the fight cause Bootsy disrespected him already by turning down a huge offer for the fight.

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How exactly was that disrespectful?

Canelo too “disrespected” Turki at one point. Guess what happened a few months later? Turki paid Canelo