Vergil Ortiz Jr vs Michael McKinson Card: Who is fighting?

Vergil Ortiz Jr. of Grand Prairie, Texas, makes his comeback to the ring after missing for the longest period of time in his professional career—nine months—to face Michael McKinson of Great Britain.

When a contract with David Avanesyan fell through, McKinson received the go-ahead to take on the returning Ortiz Jr.

The Texan chose to discuss the specifics in an interview with NYFights this week, choosing instead to voice his excitement about returning to the spotlight and rejoining the conversation in the cutthroat welterweight division, where he intends to stay.

Ortiz Jr. is unable to watch from the sidelines any longer. Ortiz Jr. was hospitalized with rhabdomyolysis, a condition that breaks down muscle tissue and is commonly brought on by overtraining, just a few days before his fight with McKinson back on March 19.

At this point, returning to face McKinson to assess his fitness is reasonable. However, the 24-year-old Ortiz Jr. must seek out more difficult opponents as though his career depended on it, which it does.

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When looking up at Terence Crawford, Errol Spence Jr., Yordenis Ugas, Keith Thurman and Jaron “Boots” Ennis, Ortiz Jr., a top-five ranked welterweight, finds himself stuck. Other ambitious division talents such as Eimatas Stanionis, Conor Benn, Shakhram Giyasov, or possibly his Golden Boy stablemate, Alexis Rocha, could serve as competition.

No fighter abandons their strategy, but Ortiz Jr. gave away his level of assurance when he said of McKinson’s previous performance: “There was not a whole lot of varying, different