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Ortiz v Madrimov on its face is absolutely outstanding, but I'm not fully convinced how it'll work out as Madrimov is still guaranteed to fight Bohachuk as chief support for the Fury v Usyk undercard. That leaves Ortiz is limbo not knowing who he is fighting. Tons of variables can take Madrimov out of the fight, biggest is overlooking Bohachuk and taking the L. Even a cut or injury. It's a literal 59 day turn around for Madrimov and in today's games that is insane at the elite level. Maybe Zayas will be on standby or with a win Bohachuk goes right into an Ortiz rematch instead?
i'm not sure israil will make it to the vergil fight or serhii either if he wins. maybe they announced the fight to give them more time to lock in an opponent or they can use israil not making as an excuse to fight a lesser opponent. i heard there were four opponents that were reached out to, israil & xander being two of them. vergil apparently said he'll fight anyone & the promotion went with israil. i could see golden boy having charles conwell as a back up
Yeh if anything the talk is definitely drumming focus on them as co main and Fury-Usyk card. And no way after all the stink about Ennis etc that they'd put Ortiz in a position to not already have a suitable backup on deck to fill the slot.