The bad news continues for Oscar De La Hoya and his Golden Boy Promotions. Just hours after Showtime and Premier Boxing Champions officially announced that Jermall Charlo won’t be fighting Golden Boy’s Jaime Munguia in his next defense this Summer, his main event for Saturday on DAZN is now reportedly off too. This after a report surfaced that unbeaten Welterweight Vergil Ortiz has pulled out of his scheduled bout with Michael McKinson.
ESPN’s Mike Coppinger had the news first Tuesday afternoon, that Ortiz is out for Saturday’s scheduled bout in L.A. for “undisclosed reasons,”
From Coppinger’s item,
The fight was set to headline a Golden Boy Promotions on DAZN card. McKinson could fight a replacement opponent, but the card is in jeopardy of being canceled, sources said. It’s also possible the welterweight co-feature pitting Alexis Rocha against Blair Cobbs will be elevated, sources said.
Ortiz, 23, has risen to the No. 4 spot in ESPN’s welterweight rankings with a string of impressive knockouts over solid opposition. A power-punching Texan, he scored a seventh-round knockout of former champion Maurice Hooker in March 2021. Ortiz followed with an eighth-round TKO of Egidijus Kavaliauskas in August.
