HOPKINS: Ortiz jr. Smarts will beat Madrimov

Bernard Hopkins says Vergil Ortiz jr. Will Rail Madrimov “surpassed” to defeat him in their battle in Riyadh on Saturday night. Ortiz jr. (22-0, 21 food) will defend his WBC-TUs-Engineer Middleweight title against former amateur star Madrimov (10-1-1, 7 COs) in a 12-round battle that many fans consider to be 50-50 competition.

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Madrimov lost his last fight against Terence Crawford on August 3 for not doing enough in the last part of the fight when the match was still running. He cannot be the same mistake against Vergil Jr. Don’t make and expect to win because he can do everything Crawford can.

Ortiz’s intellect

“I am a big fan of this man here because he is all power and he is destroying,” Sergio Mora said Golden boy box About Vergil Ortiz Jr. “What many people do not give him for is intelligence. You must be intelligent with the pressure that Ortiz puts on your.

“He finds out a way out when he is having trouble with relatives like (Michael) McKinson. Yes, McKinson went in the second half of the fight. He figured out (Egidijus) Cavaliauskas, who put him down, fought at corners. He could find a way there, ”says Mora.

“Vergil is going to surpass him, and he will continue to keep the space between them where he can work that stitch,” Bernard Hopkins said. “Oscar knows how to work that stitch.”

This would be a good achievement for Vergil Ortiz Jr. To surpass Madrimov because he was not the type of fighter who relied on his ring to win his entire career fighting. Vergil jr. Always used its strength and size to win at 147 and 154.

His last battle against Serhii Bohachuk was the first time in his career that he could not overcome power, and he had to box in the championships to win. It was a controversial victory for Ortiz Jr., but he got it and went on.

“Smart Jab, Jab and on your toes,” says De la Hoya. ‘Handle the bull. It’s a big, big map. This is perhaps one of the greatest of all time. It really is. You look at the fights in the past, like the Don King cards when you had Mike Tyson, Trinidad and Julio Cesar Chavez.