{"id":171671,"date":"2025-08-24T12:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171671\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:28:56","slug":"vergil-ortiz-vs-erickson-lubin-official-for-november-8th-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171671\/","title":{"rendered":"Vergil Ortiz vs Erickson Lubin official for November 8th in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019ll take place <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-news\/109469\/vergil-ortiz-jr-vs-erickson-lubin-reportedly-agreed-october-18-boxing-news-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bit later than expected<\/a>, but Vergil Ortiz Jr is now officially set to take on Erickson Lubin on November 8th in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ortiz (23-0, 21 KO) spent a while pursuing a clash with newly crowned WBO champ Xander Zayas, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XanderZayas\/status\/1956467315760865485\">but Zayas turned down a 50\/50 split and demanded the bout take place in Puerto Rico<\/a>, leading Ortiz to look elsewhere. After stopping his first 21 opponents, he\u2019s taken back-to-back trips to the judges against division standouts Serhii Bohachuk and Israil Madrimov, winning and defending the interim WBC title in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That should have earned him a shot at Sebastian Fundora by now, but the WBC is the WBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m always happy to be a part of the fights that fans want to see,\u201d said Ortiz in a press release. \u201cSee you guys November 8!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Speaking of earned shots, Lubin (27-2, 19 KO) set himself up for an IBF eliminator against Tim Tszyu with a bogus decision over Jesus Ramos in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2024\/8\/6\/24214831\/ibf-orders-bakhram-murtazaliev-vs-tim-tszyu-boxing-news-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only to withdraw due to a hand injury<\/a>. He went on to stop Ardreal Holmes in May after nearly two years out of action, but turned down champ Bakhram Murtazaliev in favor of facing Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI want to thank Golden Boy, PBC and ProBox for making this happen,\u201d said Lubin. \u201cI think the fans are in for a treat. This is the moment I\u2019ve been waiting for, this fight is about redemption, I\u2019m back for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nothing yet as far as the undercard; we\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019ll take place a bit later than expected, but Vergil Ortiz Jr is now officially set to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,97212,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-171671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115083749848633371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}