{"id":325622,"date":"2025-08-07T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325622\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:25:08","slug":"vergil-ortiz-sparred-canelo-and-now-predicts-terence-crawford-fight-i-hit-him-as-hard-as-i-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325622\/","title":{"rendered":"Vergil Ortiz Sparred Canelo And Now Predicts Terence Crawford Fight: &#8220;I Hit Him As Hard As I Could&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/vergil-ortiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vergil Ortiz<\/a> Jr has shared his thoughts on the upcoming \u2018super-fight\u2019 between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford after sharing rounds with the Mexican champion.<\/p>\n<p>The two pound-for-pound stars are set to do battle for the undisputed super-middleweight title on Saturday September 13 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>One fighter that has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/canelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canelo<\/a> up close is super-welterweight contender Ortiz, who has spent some time sparring the Mexican great in the past during a switch to Eddy Reynoso\u2019s gym.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/N2gUvsNGTt0?si=dMDXaFCYSzJKKTgp&amp;t=1933\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ring Champs with Ak &amp; Barak<\/a>, Ortiz shared details of his sparring experience with Canelo, where gives plaudits to the Mexican\u2019s punching power and chin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat dude\u2019s good, he\u2019s good \u2026 He hits hard but he held back, he held back for sure. But the one thing I remember was I set him up for a shot and it worked, I don\u2019t wanna say which one because I don\u2019t want to give away my secrets, but I hit him with like a hard hook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m talking about like I made him drop his hand thinking I was gonna do something else and I hit him as hard as I could and his head [barely moved].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ortiz also made his prediction for the fight, saying that he doesn\u2019t believe Crawford will be victorious.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think so [Crawford beats Canelo] and look, hear me out, I respect Crawford and everything that he\u2019s doing but he just moved up from 147 so I\u2019m just gonna treat him as a 147 pounder, he\u2019s jumping up three weight classes to fight someone who was like the number one fighter in all of boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Whilst \u2018Bud\u2019 is faced with the toughest test of his career when he faces Canelo next month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/37892300\/terence-bud-crawford-biography-wins-losses-record-fights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 37-year-old<\/a> is on the verge of becoming a three-time undisputed champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vergil Ortiz Jr has shared his thoughts on the upcoming \u2018super-fight\u2019 between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114988418920947015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}