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title: "Plans Revealed For Vergil Ortiz To Fight For World Title"
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published: "2024-03-24T15:00:59Z"
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# Plans Revealed For Vergil Ortiz To Fight For World Title

Following his return to the ring [back in February, Vergil Ortiz Jr. quickly got to work in knocking out Fredrick Lawson](https://www.dazn.com/en-US/news/boxing/vergil-ortiz-jr-called-out-this-junior-middleweight-world-champion-after-defeating-fredrick-lawson/131tmotm9ow711jwc6mc7ztk3r) and now plans have been revealed for his next fight.

Ortiz was a decorated amateur and seven-time national champion who turned pro and was named 2019 The Ring magazine Prospect of the Year.

He is a power puncher who has won all of his bouts by knockouts and previously held the WBO international welterweight title from 2021 – 2022. Ortiz is trained by [Robert Garcia who spoke to 210 Boxing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciUHsD-m4Tw&t=178s) and gave an update on his next fight.

*“I think by this coming week everybody should know the news. It’s going to be a big event for him. We also saw the fight with the Eastern European who became WBA champion at 154. I can’t pronounce his name \[Israil Madrimov\].*

*“But the WBA, the rules are, if you fight for the vacant titles, the one and two have to do a mandatory defence and Virgil is the mandatory so it looks like after his next fight which is going to be really soon.*

*“Late summer, Virgil will be fighting for a world title against a champion for a tittle. That’s the WBA wording and what the communications talk about.”*

The man he is talking about is Israil Madrimov who stopped Magomed Kurbanov in the fifth round and won the vacant WBA super welterweight title earlier in March.

[A fight between Ortiz and Madrimov represents a great match-up in the super-welterweight division which also sees Tim Tszyu with soon on Amazon Prime against a new opponent after Keith Thurman pulled out.](https://wp.boxing-social.com/news/tim-bradley-tim-tszyu-sebastian-fundora/)