LAS VEGAS — Manny Robles and Tom Loeffler felt disappointed but not defeated. Yes, their fighter, junior middleweight Serhii Bohachuk, had taken the loss on the scorecards, receiving the short end of a majority decision against Vergil Ortiz Jr. on Saturday night at the…

Vergil Ortiz narrowly edged a majority decision win despite suffering two knockdowns. Wil Esco is an assistant editor of Bad Left Hook and has been covering boxing for SB Nation since 2014. Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya gave his immediate…

Serheii Bohachuk came up short on two of the official scorecards to lose his interim title. Wil Esco is an assistant editor of Bad Left Hook and has been covering boxing for SB Nation since 2014. Serheii Bohachuk’s representative Tom Loeffler gives…

LAS VEGAS – Jhonata Diniz wants matchmakers to find his equal in the heavyweight division after UFC on ESPN 61. Diniz (8-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) added to his unblemished record Saturday when he earned a unanimous decision victory over Karl Williams (10-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC)…

LAS VEGAS – Yana Santos felt she was fighting for her job at UFC on ESPN 61. The women’s bantamweight veteran entered Saturday’s bout against Chelsea Chandler on a three-fight losing streak, with her last win coming in 2021. Santos (15-8 MMA, 5-5 UFC) believed…

LAS VEGAS — Vergil Ortiz Jr. needed this. The junior middleweight contender went to war with Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday night, going through hell, going the 12-round distance for the first time in his professional career. Heck, this was only the third time in…

LAS VEGAS — Vergil Ortiz Jr. is just coming off a hard fight — easily the hardest fight of his career, given that Ortiz’s close win over Serhii Bohachuk was the first time that the junior middleweight contender had gone the distance. The obvious question…

LAS VEGAS — Charles Conwell was not only one of the key fighters on Saturday’s show featuring Vergil Ortiz vs. Serhii Bohachuk. He was also a highly interested observer. That’s because Conwell is a junior middleweight contender who wants the other big names — anyone…

In a night filled with lackadaisical fights, Serghei Spivac ended UFC on ESPN 61 with an energizing finish. Early in Saturday’s main event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Spivac (17-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC) exploded off his back to snatch an armbar and tap…