The emotional style of Vergil Ortiz Jr. Lubin

Erickson Lubin says he’s noticed how Vergil Ortiz Jr. tends to get “emotional” in his fights when he’s hurt. He comes right up, throws “crazy” shots, tries to get it back.

Next month, it could catch up with Virgil Jr. (23-0, 21 KOs) when he defends the WBC interim junior middleweight title against punch-boxer Lubin (27-2, 19 KOs) on Nov. 8 at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The event will be displayed on DAZN.

The wild reaction

“A wilder mentality. I feel like Surgil gets a little emotional when he fights. You land a few punches on him, and he starts shaking his head and biting his lip,” Erickson Lubin said. Milcity punch On how Virgil Ortiz Jr. gets excited after getting hurt.

Ortiz Jr., 27, isn’t going to change his boxing DNA at this point in his career by staying calm and keeping his head together after getting nailed hard. He’s always going to fight like a wild man. If that doesn’t get him against Eriksson, there’s a good chance it will when he fights Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.

“He wants it back. He starts throwing some crazy garbage back at you. They should make this title fight, and let Fondora be champion by the break,” Erickson said, in response to WBC junior middleweight champion Sebastian Fondora postponing his fight against Keith Thurman due to a hand injury.

Vergil Jr. has always battled emotion his entire career, and it’s worked for him so far. It also caused him to take a lot of punishment by going straight at his opponents. We saw it in his fights against Sakhi Bohchuk and Isril Madrimov. Ortiz Jr. looked like he stepped out of a war zone by the end of the fight.

WBC title question

It would make sense for the WBC to put their 154kg title on the line for the Vergil vs Lubin fight. However, the sanctioning body should put it on the line for the Fondora-Thurman clash because it is Amazon Prime PPV video. This is the bigger fight. The WBC is shooting themselves in the foot by giving Pandora a tag break.

“I’m leaning towards Pandora. No disrespect to Keith, but a little inactive. A little older now,” Lubin said.

If you looked closely at Thurman’s last fight, after another three-year layoff against Australian Brook Jarvis earlier this year on March 12th, he is not the same fighter.

The only thing left for him is to move and throw a rare single shot. His punch output has dropped to next to nothing, and he doesn’t seem able to stand still for a firefight. This approach will not work against Pandora.

By Sean Jones – senior boxing writer, covering the sport since 2016.