In a close fight, the former world champion in three divisions, the Ukrainian Vasiliy “Loma” Lomachenko, unanimously defeated the American Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz, from whom he snatched the unbeaten, in the main event of a card that took place this Saturday at the Hulu Theater in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Lomachenko had a lot of trouble against Ortiz, possibly due to 10 months of inactivity in boxing for hire, following his split with Ukraine, in the war against the invasion of Russia. However, after 12 rounds of good deed, “Loma” won with advantages of 115-113, 116-112 and 117-111 on the three judges’ cards.
Ortiz, Lomachenko’s former sparring partner, was behind in betting 25: 1. However, he did look good in the early rounds, boxing intelligently and using his height and gaining advantage to instill some concern in the Ukrainian champion’s corner.
However, Lomachenko got up round after round, using the speed of his hand to fight Ortiz, who also showed a lot of speed. But his excellent footwork and extensive experience left Lomachenko as the big winner of the evening.
With this win, Lomachenko improved his record to 17-2, 11 knockouts, while Ortiz dropped to 16-1-1, 8 knockouts.
On that same card, Cuban Olympian Robeisy Ramírez (11-1, 7 KOs), two-time Olympic gold medalist, knocked out late replacement José Matías Romero (26-3, 9 KOs) in the ninth round.
Ramirez knocked down Romero in the first round, then went through seven slick rounds before whacking Romero and earning the referee’s break in the ninth round. The official time was 2:20 minutes of the ninth round. Ramírez can now face number 1 Isaac Dogboe for the WBO belt, as reigning champion Emanuel Navarrete is announced that he will climb up to 130lbs.
Undefeated 2020 Olympic silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. (4-0, 4 KOs) finished against Ahmed Hefny (13-3, 5 KOs) in the third round. Torrez knocked out Hefny in the first two rounds and then got the knockout after another knockdown in the third.
Undefeated 2020 Olympic silver medalist Duke Ragan (8-0, 1 KO) won an eight-round unanimous decision over Luis Lebron (18-5-1, 11 KOs) in a jr. Regan survived the buzz in seventh place by winning with scores of 77-75, 78-74 and 79-73.
Undefeated middleweight Nico Ali Walsh (7-0, 5 KOs), grandson of the great Muhammad Ali, had to work harder than expected to make a six-round unanimous decision over little-known Billy Wagner (5-3, 1 KO) . stun). The scores were 58-56, 58-56 and 59-55.
For his part, undefeated 2020 Olympian Tiger Johnson (6-0, 4 KOs) won by points in six rounds over Esteban Garcia (15-2, 7 KOs), undefeated 2020 middleweight Olympian Troy Isley (8-0, 4 KOs) defeated Quincy Lavallais (14-4-1, 9 KOs) in eight rounds with scores of 79-73, 80-72 and 80-72.
Instead, undefeated lightweight Abdullah Mason (5-0, 4 KOs) stopped undefeated Angel Barrera (4-1) and undefeated super feather Haven Brady Jr. (8-0, 4 KOs) overtook Eric Mondragon. (7 -1-1, 4 KOs) in eight rounds with scores of 78-74, 79-73 and 79-73.
