Israil Madrimov can find it difficult for him to return from his last defeat against the champion of the WBC -Interim -Junior -Gweizer, Virgil Ortiz Jr. on Saturday evening.
The former WBA 154-LB champion Madrimov (10-2-1, 7 Kos) suffered his second defeat in a row and lost a unanimous decision of 12 laps against undefeated Vergil Jr. ), Saudi Arabia. Ortiz Jr. won the results 115-113, 115-113 and 117-111. It is a fight that Madrimov could have won if he had fought cleverly and had gone into the match. He still interpreted Vergil Jr. as a faulty fighter who will not go on before he is beaten.
Strategic mistakes
Regardless of the chance that Madrimov, 29, had thrown it out of the window by getting into battle less than 100%and came from an illness that he says he weakened it. In retrospect, Madrimov should have canceled the fight, but he didn’t want to miss this opportunity.
He made things more difficult for himself by constantly moving in the first six rounds, which brought him to gas after the center of Bas. Madrimov seemed to climb 5-1 after six, but the judges assigned to the struggle gave him no recognition that he had dominated the easy -to -end Ortiz Jr. at an early stage.
This defeat makes Madrimov difficult to get important fights unless Turki Alalshikh can help. He is too good to be used by other promoters who try to develop their fighters as B-side opponents. He defeated almost Terence Crawford and Virgil Jr. Leper be avoided.
“Where is Madrimov going? He has now lost two fights in a row, ”said Simon Jordan Talksport Boxing About the former WBA junior medium weight -weight champion Israil Madrimov after his defeat on Saturday evening against Vergil Ortiz Jr. in Riad.
Without Turki, Madrimov has to spin through the ranks of the competitor, probably ignored and forced from one of the 10 top -10 boys to fight lower feeders. If they fight against these types of boys, Madrimov will make it extremely difficult to quickly get into the ranking, unless his promoter, Eddie Hear, can urge him hard for him, as he does with the other fighters, which he likes.
“It is difficult because he is a hard guy to beat and that is the problem,” said Spencer Oliver about Madrimov. “If you look at the prospects that come through, the children (or their organizers) will really go” really? I don’t want any of it. ‘He is a hard guy he can determine.
“By the way, he has this European style in which he only beats, and the miles he must have done in this ring was crazy. He was without interruption all the time. Tactically, he was wearing the place, but it was a hard way back for him.
“Nobody will want to be close to him because it is the kind of style that all makes it bad and do not want to go there if they have to go there. Credit to Ortiz Jr. for the fact that he had the fight because it would always be difficult, and I thought he got out of it, ”said Oliver.
Last updated on February 25th, 2025