By Ryan Burton
Sources in Mexico have advised BoxingScene.com that a fight between Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez (34-0) and Dominik Britsch (32-2-1) of Germany is nearly finalized for July 23rd.
The fight will serve as the co-feature for the Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol HBO distributed pay-per-view main event that takes place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Ramirez captured the WBO super middleweight title with a shutout of former two-division champion Arthur Abraham on April 9th. Britsch has won 4 rights in a row but will taking a big step up in class against the undefeated Ramirez.
Next Tuesday, Crawford and Postol will host a press conference Los Angeles to officially announce their twelve round world title unification fight to determine the lineal king of the exciting 140 pound division.
Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs), of Omaha, Neb., already a two-division world champion, has won four of his last five bouts by stoppage. The consensus Top-10 pound-for-pound fighter will be making his MGM Grand Garden debut in his third title defense as World Boxing Organization(WBO) junior welterweight world champion.
Postol (28-0, 12 KOs), from Kiev, Ukraine, put his stamp on the boxing landscape when he scored a 10th-round knockout of the heavily-favored former world champion Lucas Matthysse to capture the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) super lightweight world title on October 3, 2015. Having won two of his last three fights by knockout, the Freddie Roach-trained Postol will be making his first defense of that title.
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