Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. Jamaine Ortiz: Live Stream, Betting Odds & Fight Card
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If Vasiliy Lomachenko is in shape, un injured and Father Time hasn’t snuck in and siphoned off an egregious amount of elements which have made the Ukrainian five-star ring general elite for decades, then he should beat Jamaine Ortiz handily Saturday night.
Odds are that the 34 year old Lomachenko will handle business at the former Felt Forum in NYC, but one never does know until the scene is enacted.
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The 26 year old Ortiz is a New England fighter, which often means that his story is one which persistence plays as large of a role in his successes as anything else. The boxer, expertly promoted by NE OG Jimmy Burchfield Sr, holds a 16-0-1 record, comparable to the ledger for Loma, 16-2. Apart from that on-paper similarity, well, wins over Joseph Adorno, Nahir Albright and Jamel Herring won’t have prepped the Rhode Islander for the skill set he will meet Saturday. Unless…
Unless Lomachenko comes to NY as a lesser version of his typical majestic self. This is why we tune in to a “rust shedder” contest such as this, fashioned as a precursor to a legit challenge, like, say Devin Haney.
Founder/editor Michael Woods got addicted to boxing in 1990, when Buster Douglas shocked the world with his demolition of the then-impregnable Mike Tyson.
The Brooklyn-based journalist has covered the sport since for ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, Bad Left Hook and RING. His journalism career started with NY Newsday in 1999.
Michael Woods is also an accomplished blow by blow and color man, having done work for Top Rank, DiBella Entertainment, EPIX, and for Facebook Fightnight Live, since 2017.