Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Samuel Vargas was a Welterweight

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match contested between the defending WBA Gold champion the American Vergil Ortiz Jr. and the Canadian-Colombian Samuel Vargas. The event originally scheduled for Ortiz Jr. vs Vargas on 28 March 2020 at The Forum,

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, California and the unified

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world titles between the current four-division champion, the Mexican Canelo Álvarez vs. the

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champion, the British

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on 2 May 2020 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. But the Canelo vs. Saunders fight has been cancelled and replaced by the Ortiz Jr. vs Vargas fight in 24 July at the

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due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fight card

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service DAZN launch globally in Latin America (after previously been launched in Brazil a year ago), UK, and other 189 countries after previously been launched in nine countries.

References

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