
Ramirez Aiming to Make History for Mexico Against Goulamirian
Gilberto Ramirez has a chance to become Mexico’s first cruiserweight world champion when he fights Arsen Goulamirian in Inglewood, California, on March 30.

Gilberto Ramirez has a chance to become Mexico’s first cruiserweight world champion when he fights Arsen Goulamirian in Inglewood, California, on March 30.

Ekaterinburg, Russia - Moscow-based Moldova native Maxim Cherniciuc (5-0, 1 KO) scored the most impressive win of his short career so far by outpointing previously undefeated Russia-based native of Abkhazia Igor Adleiba (14-1-2, 6 KOs) over eight heated rounds with a unanimous decision.

Three years in the making, Super WBA cruiserweight champion Arsen Goulamirian of France and his long-time WBA #1 ranked contender (and former WBA Gold belt owner) Alexey Egorov from Russia finally met each other at La Palestre in Le Cannet, France.

Former world champions Robert Stieglitz and Dirk Dzemski joined forces and staged a pro-am show in Schoenebeck mainly with up and coming prospects. The most experienced pro was Patrick Rokohl (22-3) and he was in against one Felipe Da Silva (2-5-1) in what looked like a meaningless mismatch. However Da Silva hadn't read the script and knocked out Rokohl in the second round.

Arsen Goulamirian and Aleksei Egorov are back in each other’s sights. The pair of unbeaten cruiserweights are due to meet in a mandatory title fight that was reordered by the WBA on Tuesday. Goulamirian will make his first title defense since the pandemic, and also first since gaining sole recognition as the WBC cruiserweight titlist after secondary titleholder Ryad Merhy relinquished his reign earlier this month.

The World Boxing Association has applied a lot of pressure on their WBA 'super' champion at featherweight, Leo Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz has not made a mandatory defense of the featherweight belt since June of 2018. The Mexican boxer had to make a mandatory defense by June of 2020. The last time Santa Cruz defended that title was back in February of 2019.

Boxing has 17 weight classes and just seven of them currently don’t have a unified champion. Matchroom Boxing head Eddie Hearn is further looking to unify titles at cruiserweight with the best fighter he promotes in the division via Lawrence Okolie.


World Boxing Association (WBA) cruiserweight champion, Frenchman Arsen Goulamirian, has tested positive for Covid-19 and his scheduled defense this Friday against Aleksei Egorov was cancelled.

WBA cruiserweight king (super champ) Arsen Goulamirian (26-0) defends the title against Russian Alex Egorov (11-0) December 11 December 11 in Cannet, France.