Vergil Ortiz jr. Says he wants to see Errol Spence retiring because he feels that the combination of his car accident in 2019 and his loss of Terence Crawford has taken a lot of him.
Errol has not retired yet, but his time from the ring ended in that category. It does not matter that he did not announce his retirement. He doesn’t fight, so he can retire just as well. Former United Three Belt Welterweight Champion Spence (28-1, 22 COs) has not fought in two years since his ninth round loss against Crawford on July 29, 2023.
Retirement call
To be out of the ring for the past six years, it is many who have been going through 35-year-old Spence soon. Spence had eye injuries and weight problems. He tends to grow up between fighting, which took the toll on him.
“I don’t think Errol should fight again. I say that as a fighter who really looked up at him in the same gym. I think he’s done, ”said Vergil Ortiz Jr. Told Brian Campbell’s Youtube Channel and say he thinks Errol should retire. “I don’t want to see him fight again, I really don’t, just for his health problems.
“He already had the car accident (on October 10, 2019 in Dallas, Texas), and he had a bad night against Crawford. If he earned the money he needed, he no longer needed to survive and could live comfortably, and then just retire. I really don’t want to see him fight again as a friend. ‘
Spence made a lot of money during his career. If that were not the case, he would indeed have returned to the ring from the need. Hungry fighters tend to stay busy. It is the rich who sit inactive.
“I don’t think anyone was familiar with Muratazaliev, at least here in the United States. So it was kind of the first time everyone was watching him. We all accepted that Tim (Tszyu) will do Tim’s thing. I was shocked, ”said Vergil Jr. about former WBO junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu in the third round of a four-button performance by IBF 154-Pond Champion Bakhram Murtazaliev on October 19 last year.
“I didn’t expect it at all. I was like, ‘This guy is good. It just makes me all the more excited. It’s just another good fighter to test my skills against, ”Ortiz Jr. said.
Vergil jr. Comes from a 12-round victory over Israil Madrimov on February 22 in Riyadh. After the fight, he said he wanted to fight for a world title. However, the two names he, Terence Crawford and Sebastian Fundora, mentioned, are out of reach of him.
The one man he can fight against, IBF champion Bakhram Murtazaliev, he doesn’t look eager to fight. In the interview above, Ortiz Jr. Indeed, he will be interested in fighting Tim Tszyu next, despite having a knockout loss against Murtazaliev.
He would rather fight against Tszyu that he lost than the unbeaten Murtazaliev. Think a little about it. It shows you how much ortiz jr. Murtazaliev respects. Vergil Jr. has taken a lot of punishment in his last two fights against Madrimov and Serhii Bohachuki.
After both fights, he beat more than his opponents. He finds out in the difficult way that fighters hit 154 harder than he hit, and he can’t get away with the same high -pressure style he used at Welterweight.
Bakhram has the kind of power that not only Vergil jr. Don’t notice, but knock him out. If he believed in himself, he would not hesitate to target Murtazaliev, because it would give him the world title he needed to get the bigger battles. Ortiz JR’s WBC -Tussentage belt doesn’t count much. It can be just such a trinket work.
Last updated on 02/27/2025
