ORTIZ JR. VS. VARGAS WEIGH-IN TODAY: 4pm ET / 1pm PT – Vergil Ortiz Jr will be facing journeyman Samuel Vargas this Friday, July 24, LIVE on DAZN at the Fantasy Springs Resort in Indio, California. Ortiz-Vargas will talent place without fans.
If Ortiz looks sensational in beating the experienced Vargas, we could soon see him facing the upper-tier contenders in the 147-lb weight class. Ortiz must look good in this fight Vargas is someone that has been stopped in the past by Danny Garcia and Errol Spence Jr, and he’s not a world-beater.
Vargas isn’t the type of opponent for Ortiz that will motivate a lot of boxing fans to reactive or subscribe to DAZN in high numbers, but it’s possible that we could see a trickle of fans coming back. Where we might see subscribers coming back to DAZN is in August when they have a handful of decent but not great fights involving these fighters:
Dillian Whyte vs. Alexander Povetkin
Julio Cesar Martinez vs. McWilliams Arroyo
Jorge Linares vs. Javier Fortuna
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai vs, Amnat Ruenroeng
That’s pretty much it as far as compelling match-ups go for August on DAZN. The rest of the stuff is Matchroom’s British domestic level fighters from their Fight Camp shows. In other words, obscure fighters battling it out.