{"id":53500,"date":"2025-08-08T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53500\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:18:08","slug":"jaron-ennis-vs-vergil-ortiz-is-inevitable-says-oscar-de-la-hoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53500\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis vs. Vergil Ortiz is ‘inevitable,’ says Oscar De La Hoya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jaron Ennis <\/a>and Vergil Ortiz Jr.<\/a> were supposed to fight in February, but the encounter experienced a false start at the finish line once the weight limit had to be finalized.
Ennis (34-0, 30 KOs) <\/a>has since moved on from 147 pounds and is all-in as a 154-pounder. The development is music to the ears of the WBC interim junior middleweight champion Ortiz<\/a> (23-0, 21 KOs) and everyone else in his team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re putting our fall schedule together. We love being on DAZN and having a great, full schedule. It’s Vergil Ortiz’s next time around. We want to put him in against a monster,\u201d Ortiz promoter and Golden Boy chief Oscar De La Hoya said on DAZN.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s ready for everybody. Vergil Ortiz is Golden Boy’s next star. We believe in him 1,000 percent. We’re looking at getting him back in October against someone in the top five. He will be back very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, De La Hoya told The Ring<\/a> that he wanted to be careful not to burn out Ortiz following two tough fights in a row against Serhii Bohachuk <\/a>and Israil Madrimov<\/a>. Ortiz underwent right-hand surgery after beating Madrimov in February <\/a>and was knocked down twice during a war and a disputed majority decision win against Bohachuk in 2024. <\/p>\n

\u201c[February] can be [a reasonable timeline for the Ennis fight],\u201d said De La Hoya. \u201cThat fight is inevitable. Boots and Vergil is going to happen and I cannot wait. I believe Boots is a tremendous boxer and puncher. He’s got the ring IQ and confidence. He’s a star. But when Vergil Ortiz is in front, there is nowhere to hide. It’s going to happen soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manouk Akopyan is The Ring\u2019s lead writer. Follow him on X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jaron Ennis and Vergil Ortiz Jr. were supposed to fight in February, but the encounter experienced a false…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-53500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}