Vergil Ortiz Jr.: record, next fight and profile →
Manny Robles and Tom Loeffler felt disappointed but not defeated. Yes, their fighter, junior middleweight Serhii Bohachuk, had taken the loss on the scorecards, receiving the short end of a majority decision against Vergil Ortiz Jr. on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
The junior middleweight contender went to war with Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday night, going through hell, going the 12-round distance for the first time in his professional career.
Vergil Ortiz Jr. is just coming off a hard fight — easily the hardest fight of his career, given that Ortiz’s close win over Serhii Bohachuk was the first time that the junior middleweight contender had gone the distance.
So much of what we’ve heard about Vergil Ortiz Jr. from Golden Boy Promotions’ executives in recent weeks is about some of the other junior middleweights Ortiz could face, whether it’s Terence Crawford or Tim Tszyu
Although Vergil Ortiz will have adequately trained for it, and indeed one day expected it, still nothing can fully prepare a puncher for the first time their opponent soaks up everything they throw at them and hardly blinks. It is usually in this moment the puncher confronts self-doubt and wonders if it is even possible to win a fight without having made some sort of impression on or dent in the opponent in front of them. It is during this moment, too, that we sometimes see the puncher succumb to the panic and nervous energy and either punch themselves out in an effort to punch through this anxiety or simply collapse, often dramatically.
Charles Conwell was not only one of the key fighters on Saturday’s show featuring Vergil Ortiz vs. Serhii Bohachuk. He was also a highly interested observer.
Thrust into the foreign land of rounds 10, 11 and 12 on Saturday in Las Vegas, Vergil Ortiz Jr. swept the championship rounds to pull out his majority decision triumph over Serhii Bohachuk.
Vergil Ortiz Jr. came back from two knockdowns to defeat Serhii Bohachuk in a 12-round slugfest, securing a majority decision to win the WBC interim junior middleweight title in Las Vegas.
Vergil Ortiz Jr. refuted all that Serhii Bohachuk and the boxing world threw at him Saturday night, enduring two knockdowns and going the distance for a majority decision win in Las Vegas.