Comments Thread For: Gilberto Ramirez: My Goal Is To Become Five-Division Champ For Golden Boy

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Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramirez finally feels he is at a place in his professional life where he can spend the rest of the career. More than a year has passed since the unbeaten Mexican southpaw signed with Golden Boy Promotions, having since scored three knockout wins and emerged as a top light heavyweight contender. Ramirez--a former WBO super middleweight titlist--aims to add a second divisional title later this year, with hopes of bringing home even more riches for his promoter.
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[James Hunt]

Zurdo, Munguia, and Garcia are all jokes.

Despite being a DAZN subscriber, I'm not touching their cards until they fight someone with a pulse.
Enough is enough.

[Slowhand]

Ridiculous, but then again unified HW champ Usyk has only an inch and 10-15 lbs (in the ring) over a LHW Zurdo. So the size difference is clearly smaller than Zurdo over Bivol.. weird but pointless, looks like Zurdo will retire 60-0 with zero big fights.

[MulaKO]

Unfortunately we already heard this tune before
Zurdo won’t go anywhere close to the champions and if he does , he gets beat

[Unidentified]

Get ready for that Jessie Hart trilogy...

[Bronx2245]

Zurdo might face Bivol before Beterbiev!

Eddie Hearn: Let’s Do Bivol Vs. Beterbiev Next For Undisputed, Why Do We Have To Wait?
June 23, 2022

Promoter Eddie Hearn wants unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev’s promoters at Top Rank to make the undisputed fight against WBA champion Dmitry Bivol next rather than waiting until next year to put it together.

Hearn says Bivol (20-0, 11 KOs) won’t be able to fight Beterbiev in the first half of 2023 because he’s going to be facing Canelo Alvarez in a rematch in May.

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is planning on having Beterbiev defend against #1 WBO Anthony Yarde in October in London, even though the mandatory isn’t due at this time.

In other words, this is a fight that Arum wants, not what Beterbiev or the fans want. They want the undisputed clash between Bivol and Beterbiev.

Hearn believes that the handlers for Beterbiev realize how good Bivol is after watching him defeat Canelo Alvarez on May 7th, so they’ve decided to take an easier fight against Yarde (22-2, 21 KOs) rather than risk getting beaten.

Arum NOT interested in making Beterbiev vs. Bivol fight

It was clear long before Beterbiev fought Joe Smith Jr last weekend that Arum wasn’t interested in letting his fighter face Bivol.

This is what Arum said last month on May 19th on Fighthype about his lack of interest in matching Beterbiev vs. Bivol:

“Bivol fights on the DAZN platform and we’re not interested in our fighters fighting on DAZN,” said Arum. “Our fighters don’t want to fight on DAZN. They want to fight on ESPN where they get the biggest audience.

“So my suggestion is if the Canelo rematch isn’t available, he should fight Gilberto Ramirez. So Eddie Hearn and Gilberto both do their fights on DAZN, so it [Bivol vs. Ramirez] shouldn’t be a hard fight to make,” said Arum in making it clear back on May 19th that he had NO interest in letting Beterbiev fight Dmitry Bivol.

“Bivol is ready to fight for the undisputed,” said Eddie Hearn to Fight Hub TV. “There’s a lot of smoke & mirrors in boxing where people say, ‘Bivol is ready, he wants to become undisputed.’

“What are you waiting for? We’ve got no fight scheduled for Bivol,” said Hearn in sending a message to the promoters for IBF/WBC/WBO light heavyweight champion.

“So, yeah, they’ve got a mandatory that’s not really a mandatory, but they’re choosing to take it in [Anthony] Yarde],” Hearn continued about wanting to make the Beterbiev vs. Bivol fight NEXT rather than in 2023.

“Let’s do the undisputed next. Why do we have to wait? The fact is, people, know now how good Dmitry Bivol is. Dmitry Bivol is the best 175-pounder in the world.

“Beterbiev is a beast, by the way, but he doesn’t beat Dmitry Bivol. So let’s make that fight now. September, October, November, not waiting because if we wait, Bivol is going to make a defense in September or October, and then we’re going to do the Canelo Alvarez rematch.

“So if you want to be undisputed, strike now. Don’t talk about other fights. Let’s make the fight. I back Dmitry Bivol every day against Beterbiev, who is a great fighter, but Bivol is a special, special fighter,” said Hearn.

https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-new...to-wait/225440

[Charlie Zelenoff]

I'd like to see Zurdo fight Bivol or maybe even Joe Smith.

[BrilliantAJ]

Would've preferred Zurdo-Bivol to Buatsi-Bivol, but both are reasonable fights. De La Hoya should be getting more criticism about poor matchmaking designed to 'break Floyd's record'. No one cares if him or Munguia get to 51-0 if they're continually fighting sub-par opposition. Ramirez is 44-0 with possibly 3 or 4 meaningful opponents. Disgraceful.

[Clegg]

With that kind of talk I wonder if he'll test positive for cocaine soon.

[Slowhand]

With that kind of talk I wonder if he'll test positive for cocaine soon.

With his rehydration I wonder what else is needed.. I just donīt understand how some fighters can cut and rehydrate so much without collapsing. In ring limits for every single fight might make the sport healthier, say 10% above weigh in max.