It’s fight week. Just five days remain before Vergil Ortiz Jr. steps in to defend his interim light middleweight title against Erickson Lubin. A lot depends on this fight, which will take place in Ortiz’s backyard in Texas. A win could potentially set up a title challenge against Sebastian Fundora. More significantly, the matchup everyone has been hankering for is against Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. So, the 27-year-old is leaving no stone unturned in preparation for the upcoming showdown.

However, he has even greater reason to put his heart and soul into this fight. It seems detractors have begun showing a tendency to go berserk and pull Vergil Ortiz Jr. down by any means possible. But they might as well have picked the wrong tree to bark up. An intriguing development saw Ortiz Jr. rolling u

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