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Despite the fact that E.Kavaliauskas managed to knock down the opponent in the second round, he was unable to finish off V. Ortizas with his attacks, who was more and more accurate with each round, as the Lithuanian forces weakened.
Already at the end of the third round, E. Kavaliauskas suffered the first fall after the opponent’s jabo, and in the eighth round, after the body shots, the Lithuanian fell to the ground for the second time in this fight.
Although E.Kavaliauskas kept trying to attack, he failed to block the opponent’s shots on defense. Although E. Kavaliauskas managed to get up after two more knockouts, in the end the fifth knockout was decisive in this fight and the judge stopped the fight.
Ortiz Jr. lost to Mean Machine FOUR times in Round 8 💥
(The taste of tonight by tonight @TrulySeltzer) pic.twitter.com/kVXkOKlNPn
– DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) August 15, 2021
Ortiz was the leader of the WBO middleweight category before the fight, so after this victory he should become the next in line for the title fight with American Terence Crafword. Ortiz also won the WBO International Champion Belt.
After the fight, Ortiz said he was ready to fight anything, whether it was Crawford, Errol Spence or Manny Pacquiao, but he felt he deserved to fight for the true champion belt.
“I am satisfied with my performance, but I can do better in the future,” Ortiz said after the victory.
“I was not knocked down in the second round, although it was counted. To be frank, although the punches were good, it is boxing and I just absorbed them. I am not tired even now.”
Nothing but respect after a hellish fight 👏 @VergilOrtiz 🤝 Bad machine pic.twitter.com/b9zFv0ow5a
– DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) August 15, 2021
For E. Kavaliauskas, this was the second loss of his career, and before that it was only T. Crawford himself, who made it a round later than V. Ortiz. Twelve rounds were planned for the fight between E. Kavaliauskas and V. Ortiz.
The boxers met at the Ford Center in Frisco, USA The Ford Center, owned by the Dallas Cowboys Club, has 12,000 seats. fans. The vast majority of fans who came to the Ford Center supported Ortiz, who still lives in Texas, and the city of Frisco is in Texas.
E.Kavaliauskas is slightly shorter than his opponent (175cm vs. 178cm), but he had an advantage in the length of his outstretched arms (180cm vs. 178cm).
On Friday, the boxers had to lose weight to 147 pounds (66.68 kg). V. Ortizas weighed exactly 147 pounds and E. Kavaliauskas had reached 146.6 pounds (66.5 kg).
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