{"id":70213,"date":"2025-08-16T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70213\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:06:09","slug":"vergil-ortiz-erickson-lubin-finalizing-oct-18-junior-middleweight-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70213\/","title":{"rendered":"Vergil Ortiz, Erickson Lubin finalizing Oct. 18 junior middleweight fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/vergil-ortiz-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vergil Ortiz Jr.<\/a> and <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/erickson-lubin-1869\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erickson Lubin<\/a> are finalizing a deal for a junior middleweight fight Oct. 18 in the U.S. on DAZN, sources told The Ring. <br \/>Ortiz (23-0, 21 KOs) is coming off a career-best performance, a <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/vergil-ortiz-jr-stays-poised-in-slow-burning-madrimov-matchup-to-retain-wbc-interim-crown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous-decision victory<\/a> over former titleholder Israil Madrimov in February in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ortiz was in talks to fight Keith Thurman, but Thurman is set to challenge Sebastian Fundora one week later in Las Vegas, The Ring reported Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Ortiz, 27, is rated No. 2 by The Ring at 154 pounds. There are talks to match him with Jaron \u201cBoots\u201d Ennis early next year in one of the best fights that can be made in boxing. Ennis will make his junior middleweight debut Oct. 11 vs. Uisma Lima. <\/p>\n<p>Lubin (27-2, 19 KOs) has reeled off three consecutive wins since he was stopped by Fundora in Round 9 of their April 2022 slugfest. Most recently, <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/erickson-lubin-andreal-holmes-result\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lubin TKOed Andreal Holmes<\/a> in Round 11 of an IBF title eliminator in May to become the mandatory challenger.<\/p>\n<p>The organization ordered Bakhram Murtalizev to defend his IBF title against Lubin, but Lubin, 29, will instead head into a higher profile fight, albeit without a title on the line.<\/p>\n<p>In Lubin\u2019s lone title challenge, he was stopped in the opening round by Jermell Charlo in October 2017. Lubin is The Ring\u2019s No. 7 boxer at 154 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Coppinger is The Ring\u2019s senior insider. He was formerly ESPN\u2019s boxing insider. Follow him on X and Instagram: @MikeCoppinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Erickson Lubin are finalizing a deal for a junior middleweight fight Oct. 18 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":["post-70213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-results","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}