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Early Sunday morning, a 33-year-old Lithuanian Egidijus Kavaliauskas (22-2-1, 18 knockouts) grabbed gloves with a rising American star at 23 Virgil Ortiz Jr. (18-0, 18 knockouts) and suffered a second career loss.
Even though E.Kavaliauskas was able to send the opponent down in the second round, he was unable to finish V. Ortiz with his attacks, which were becoming more and more precise with each round. 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 and after three more knockouts the referee stopped the fight and declared V. Ortiz victory.
WE HAVE A FIGHT IN FRISCO. pic.twitter.com/NKuVE5Vj3J
– DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) August 15, 2021
ORTIZ PUTS SIGNIFICANT MACHINE ON THE CANVAS 💥 pic.twitter.com/swbVqQNY1K
– DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) August 15, 2021
Congratulations to WBO International Welterweight Champion Vergil Ortiz, who defeated Egidijus Kavaliauskas by TKO in the eighth round at the Ford Center in The Star, Frisco. pic.twitter.com/GSfJ6fORzN
– OMB (@WorldBoxingOrg) 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 the fight against the American title. 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 wasn’t knocked down in the second round, although it was counted. To be frank, even though the punches were good, it’s boxing and I just absorbed them. I’m not tired even now.”
The course of the fight:
Updated at 6.07 am At the end of the seventh round, E.Kavaliauskas “exploded”, but was unable to further injure his opponent. In the eighth round, V. Ortiz managed to implement the coach’s advice and after the blows to the body, E. Kavaliauskas stumbled for the second time in this fight and the knockdown was counted. The fight was very close, and a minute later E. Kavaliauskas stumbled again. Although the Lithuanian attacked, 15 seconds later E.Kavaliauskas did not resist the attacks of V. Ortiz again and stumbled again. Although in the remaining seconds E.Kavaliauskas tried to back off a bit, V. Ortizas attacked with all his might and once again forced the Lithuanian to stumble, finally convincing the judge to stop the fight.
Despite all the knockouts, E.Kavaliauskas quickly got to his feet, but could no longer successfully absorb and resist the blows of the rivals.
Updated at 6.05 am Before the seventh round, V. Ortiz was trained by the coach to take more shots to the body, and according to the “jabus” performed, V. Ortiz was significantly ahead at that time – 61 against 28.
Updated 6:00 AM The fourth, fifth and sixth rounds weren’t much different and both fighters had their moments.
Updated at 5.50 pm: There has been a very open fight since the second round. In the second round, V. Ortiz fell to the fall, although he got to his feet very quickly and asked the referee not to count it. Here, in the third round, the Lithuanian stumbled at the end of the round and absorbed strong blows from the opponent.
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 is only in Texas.
On Friday, the athletes met for the last time before the fight in a face-to-face weigh-in ceremony. The boxers had to lose weight to 147 pounds (66.68 kg) and successfully cope with the task. V. Ortizas weighed exactly 147 pounds and E. Kavaliauskas gained 146.6 pounds (66.5 kg).
E.Kavaliauskas has successfully reached the 147-pound limit in eight fights in a row, and V. Ortizas started his career in an overall lower category and has never exceeded this limit. E.Kavaliauskas weighed 176 pounds (79.83 kg) 10 weeks ago, so he had to lose more than 13 kg.
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).
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