{"id":171673,"date":"2025-08-24T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171673\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:29:53","slug":"vergil-ortiz-vs-erickson-lubin-set-for-nov-8-in-fort-worth-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/171673\/","title":{"rendered":"Vergil Ortiz vs. Erickson Lubin set for Nov. 8 in Fort Worth, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A high-stakes junior middleweight matchup between Vergil Ortiz<\/a> and Erickson Lubin<\/a> is set to unfold Nov. 8 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, on DAZN, Golden Boy Promotions announced Thursday.
The fight surfaced as a real possibility last week when Ortiz, the WBC interim titleholder, couldn\u2019t get a deal done with WBO titleholder Xander Zayas. And Lubin preferred to take a higher-paying fight against Ortiz rather than move forward with his shot as the IBF mandatory challenger to Bakhram Murtazaliev<\/a>\u2019s title. <\/p>\n

\u201cVergil Ortiz Jr. is the most ducked fighter in boxing \u2014 period,\u201d promoter Oscar De La Hoya said in a statement. \u201cBig names talk tough until Vergil\u2019s name comes up, then suddenly the phone goes silent. I commend Erickson Lubin; he has the guts that these fighters nowadays lack \u2014 courage.<\/p>\n

“He has dared to enter Vergil\u2019s den. On Nov. 8 at Dickies Arena, fans are going to see why everyone else keeps running from Vergil Ortiz Jr.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ortiz is The Ring\u2019s No. 2-rated fighter at 154 pounds<\/a>, Lubin is listed at No. 7.
Ortiz (23-0, 21 KOs) last fought in February, when he scored a career-best unanimous decision victory against former titleholder Israil Madrimov<\/a>. Ortiz had surgery on his right hand after the fight.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Texan came into the Madrimov matchup having survived two knockdowns during a war and majority decision over Serhii Bohachuk last summer. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hammer\u201d Lubin (27-2, 19 KOs) notched an 11th-round unanimous decision win against Ardreal Holmes <\/a>in May to set himself up as Murtazaliev\u2019s IBF mandatory challenger. <\/p>\n

All signs pointed toward Lubin facing the Russian, and a purse bid was set for Aug. 19. However, Lubin ultimately opted for the better-paying, higher-profile fight against Ortiz in his rival\u2019s hometown instead of a title shot against the equally dangerous Murtazaliev.<\/p>\n

Before beating Holmes, Lubin, 29, scored a career-best win against Jesus Ramos in 2023. Lubin has beaten Jeison Rosario, Terrell Gausha, Ishe Smith and Jorge Cota. His losses have come against Sebastian Fundora <\/a>by ninth-round stoppage in a 2022 fight of the year contender and a first-round knockout against Jermell Charlo <\/a>in 2017. <\/p>\n

Manouk Akopyan is The Ring\u2019s lead writer. Follow him on X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-stakes junior middleweight matchup between Vergil Ortiz and Erickson Lubin is set to unfold Nov. 8 at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,21354,98063,98056,98062,98061,98054,97212,98057,98058,98059,98060,98055,98065,69864,6474,98049,98050,7371,7372,2573,98051,21133,98066,98064,44288,358,98048,98053,3187,67,586,132,5230,98052,68,2969],"class_list":["post-171673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","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-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-technical-knockout","tag-texas","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171673","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=171673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}