{"id":93241,"date":"2025-08-26T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93241\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:22:09","slug":"serhii-bohachuks-promoter-contends-vergil-ortiz-is-smart-to-stay-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93241\/","title":{"rendered":"Serhii Bohachuk\u2019s Promoter Contends Vergil Ortiz \u2018Is Smart To Stay Away’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serhii Bohachuk <\/a>has resigned himself to never being able to avenge the second of his two professional defeats.
The Ukrainian junior middleweight contender would love to fight Vergil Ortiz<\/a> again. Neither Bohachuk nor his promoter expects that marketable rematch to take place, though.
\u201cThat\u2019s definitely the sense that I get,\u201d Tom Loeffler, whose 360 Promotions represents Bohachuk, told The Ring<\/a>. \u201cIf they really wanted the rematch, we very easily could\u2019ve done it. Serhii gave Vergil the opportunity. He was the [WBC] interim world champion and he gave Vergil Ortiz the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ortiz overcame two flash knockdowns \u2014 one in the first round and another in the eighth \u2014 to beat Bohachuk by majority decision a year ago in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Judge Max De Luca scored it 113-113. David Sutherland and Steve Weisfeld scored Ortiz a 114-112 winner.<\/p>\n

Loeffler and Bohachuk believe he won, but there was no debate about their 12-round, 154-pound bout being one of the most entertaining, all-action fights of 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they were confident they won the fight,\u201d Loeffler said, \u201cor were gonna win a rematch they would\u2019ve definitely given him a rematch. But it\u2019s OK. You can\u2019t blame him for understanding how dangerous Bohachuk is in the ring.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took Bohachuk four years to secure a rematch with Brandon Adams, who knocked him out in the eighth round of their March 2021 bout in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Bohachuk (26-2, 24 KOs) and Adams (25-4, 16 KOs), of Whittier, California, will meet again September 13<\/a> in a 10-round rematch on the Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford undercard at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.Ortiz (23-0, 21 KOs), of Grand Prairie, Texas, is preparing to defend his WBC interim super welterweight title against Erickson Lubin (27-2, 19 KOs) on November 8<\/a> at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
Lubin<\/a>, a southpaw from Orlando, Florida, is a credible contender who has beaten previously undefeated opponents Jesus Ramos (23-1, 19 KOs) and Ardreal Holmes<\/a> (17-1, 6 KOs) in back-to-back bouts.
Bohachuk is ranked second by the WBC, eight spots ahead of the 10th-rated Lubin. Jaron Ennis<\/a> (34-0, 30 KOs, 1 NC) strangely supplanted Bohachuk as the No. 1 contender despite the former Ring\/IBF\/WBA welterweight champ making his 154-pound debut against Angola\u2019s Uisma Lima (14-1, 10 KOs) on October 11 <\/a>at Wells Fargo Center in his hometown Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Loeffler has petitioned the WBC\u2019s ratings appeals committee because Bohachuk beat England\u2019s Ishmael Davis (13-2, 6 KOs) in a WBC elimination match December 21 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Bohachuk became the mandatory challenger at 154 by defeating Davis, yet he still hasn\u2019t received a shot at Ortiz\u2019s interim title or WBC champ Sebastian Fundora (23-1-1, 15 KOs).<\/p>\n

Ennis’ upcoming bout also is a WBA eliminator, which would typically eliminate him from contention for a WBC belt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it shows where Ortiz is,\u201d Loeffler said of him choosing Lubin as his opponent instead. \u201cIf he was that confident that he beat Serhii, he would\u2019ve easily given him the rematch. It was a candidate for Fight of the Year, so definitely the fans wanted to see it. <\/p>\n

“Turki Alalshikh came up to us after the fight and told us that he thought Serhii won the fight. And that\u2019s why Serhii was on the Riyadh show in Saudi Arabia at the end of last year. It\u2019s just one of those things where not getting the rematch is not gonna derail Serhii\u2019s career, because there are so many other big names in the division. I think Vergil Ortiz is smart to stay away from Serhii Bohachuk, having been dropped twice, the only times he\u2019s been dropped in his career. But again, if he can beat Brandon Adams, there are other names for Serhii in what\u2019s probably the deepest division in boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serhii Bohachuk has resigned himself to never being able to avenge the second of his two professional defeats.The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93242,"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-93241","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\/93241","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=93241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}