Cris Cyborg has last training session with Vergil Ortiz Sr before he heads back to Texas for Ortiz Jr’s fight

Today August 6th, 2021 Cyborg has her last practice with Vergil Ortiz Sr for a while before he heads back to Texas for his son “The Golden Boy” Vergil Ortiz Jr’s fight that is going to be taking place in August 14th in Frisco, Texas at the Ford Center at The Star. On saturday the 14th, Ortiz will be fighting Egidijus Kavaliauskas,who is a Lithuanian professional boxer who fought for the WBO welterweight belt in 2019. At provincial level, he defended the WBC-NABF welterweight belt from 2017 to 2019 and the WBO Inter-Continental welterweight title in 2018. He is 33 years old and was born July 19th, 1988.

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Cris Cyborg is a world MMA champion, today fighting in Bellator. Cris Cyborg has 4 different belts including  a Bellator, UFC, Invicta and Strikeforce belt.  Cyborg was born in Curitba, Brazil and now lives in Huntington Beach, California. Cris started to get involved in sports when she was around 15, she started with Handball and one day a MMA coach from a well known gym in Brazil named Chute Boxe saw her training  and asked her to participate in one of the practices, she did and ended up falling in love with it. Cris Cyborg has a passion for animals and is the owner of Two dogs, a Bengal cat, a mini pig,  a Maine Coon and multiple Fish & Birds at Cyborg’s zoo.

Vergil Ortiz Jr. is a Mexican American professional fighter who  has kept the WBO International welterweight title since 2021. As a begginer, he was a seven-time national champion and  he was  the winner at the 2013 Junior Olympics. He was named 2019 The Ring magazine Prospect of the Year. Vergil is going to be facing Egidijus Kavaliauskas in Frisco, Texas at The Ford Center at The Star. Vergil is 23 years old and was born March 25, 1988. He started boxing with his dad Vergil Ortiz Sr. since he was a child and now he is still with his dad training at the champion Robert Garcia’s gym. His dad Vergil Ortiz Sr has been his trainer since the beggining of his career and he started boxing at a very young age in Dallas Texas. Both Sr. and Jr. are going back to Texas to continue getting ready for the fight as Jr is going to be fighting for the belt and is probably going to be one of the biggest fights and challenges that he’s been through since the beggining of his career.