
John Ramirez Aims To Secure Eliminator For Kazuto Ioka Title Shot
Undefeated super flyweight John “Scrappy” Ramirez (11-0, 8 KOs), fighting out of South-Central Los Angeles, aims to take over the super flyweight division.
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Undefeated super flyweight John “Scrappy” Ramirez (11-0, 8 KOs), fighting out of South-Central Los Angeles, aims to take over the super flyweight division.

Undefeated North American Boxing Association (NABA) super flyweight champion John “Scrappy” Ramirez (11-0, 8 KOs) is literally living the American Dream. Despite growing up in a broken home on the crime infested streets of South-Central Los Angeles, unable to speak English when he resettled back in LA from Honduras, where he lived with his father, “Scrappy” had every conceivable reason to go down the wrong path.

Fast rising, undefeated North American Boxing Association (NABA) super flyweight champion John “Scrappy” Ramirez (10-0, 8 KOs) and veteran Thai boxer Sirichai Thaiyen (64-4, 42 KOs) have accepted offers from the World Boxing Association (WBA) to throwdown in a 2023 WBA title eliminator to determine the mandatory challenger for WBA super flyweight world champion Joshua “El Profesor” Franco (18-1, 8 KOs).

Parkovy Convention Centre in Kiev, Ukraine - World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight world champion Artem Dalakian (17-0, 12 KOs) knocked out Sirichai Thaiyen (50-4, 35 KOs) of Thailand in the eight round.

Recently crowned WBA flyweight champion Artem Dalakian will make the first defense of his title on his native soil. Coming back to Ukraine, Dalakian will defend his black belt versus experienced Thai import Sirichai Thaiyen, who is WBA #1 rated contender and Dalakian’s mandatory challenger. The bout will take place on June 17 at the Parkovy Conventional Centre in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital.

The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee ordered the start of negotiations between the teams behind Ukrainian Artem Dalakian and Thai Shirichai Thaiyen to fight for the body’s Flyweight title, which currently belongs to the European boxer. This resolution is issued based on article C-12 of the WBA rules, which is about “vacant title defense periods”.