{"id":742346,"date":"2026-08-18T23:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742346\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T23:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:26:21","slug":"vergil-ortiz-jnr-rejected-by-jaron-ennis-aiming-for-jermell-charlo-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742346\/","title":{"rendered":"Vergil Ortiz Jnr, rejected by Jaron Ennis, aiming for Jermell Charlo next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMassive name, skilled fighter still and \u2018Boots\u2019 said no \u2026 [WBC 154lbs champion Sebastian] Fundora promoter Sampson [Lewkowicz] dodged Ortiz as a mandatory and then told the world he will never let Fundora fight Vergil (smart guy). [Errol] Spence retired, Tim Tszyu moved up, [Keith] Thurman done and if Ortiz goes up, 154 becomes a wasteland and 160 the [fire] \ud83d\udd25 division,\u201d Ortiz manager Rick Mirigian told BoxingScene Monday in dissecting why Charlo 35-2-1 (19KOs) currently stands as the most viable opponent.<br \/>Charlo told BoxingScene by direct message that Monday\u2019s widespread reports that he\u2019s bound to fight Ortiz are \u201cnot true at all. I talked to [Premier Boxing Champions head] Al [Haymon] myself and I\u2019m [fighting] Tim [Tszyu] next, working on location.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Although Charlo hasn\u2019t fought since his September 2023 unanimous-decision loss to Canelo Alvarez, Mirigian ticked off the factors as to why others have withdrawn from talks for an Ortiz bout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMassive name, skilled fighter still and \u2018Boots\u2019 said no \u2026 [WBC 154lbs champion Sebastian] Fundora promoter Sampson [Lewkowicz]&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,31663,45741,101,56,54,55,40374],"class_list":["post-742346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-jaron-ennis","tag-jermell-charlo","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vergil-ortiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742346","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=742346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}