By Miguel Rivera
Gilberto Ramirez, the first Mexican to be crowned world champion at super middleweight , is ready to return to the ring and defend his WBO title after he was discharged from an injury to his right hand that sidelined him making his first defense in July as part of the Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol HBO Pay-Per-View undercard.
Ramirez had a pretty bad injury to the middle knuckle of his right hand, so he stopped training and missed out on a pay-per-view defense after conquring veteran Arthur Abraham to capture the belt back in April. Now Ramirez is hoping that an opportunity opens up to defend the title in December.
"The doctor told me that I could slowly start hitting again and I hope to be able to defend my title at the end of the year. I am very happy with the great news and now we will start working to be ready," said Ramirez to Carlos Zumbrano.
"I'll see how I feel in the first training session and I won't to rush anything; however, I hope to close out the year by defending my title and then start next year on the right foot."
Also, Ramirez said that although at the moment there are no opponents at his door, his return will have to be big and therefore he wants the right fight to defend his title.
"I'm ready for whatever and whoever that comes because I'm ready," added Ramirez.
On the other hand, the unbeaten boxer with 24 knockouts said his injury created a lot of frustration after waiting so long to get back in the ring to defend his world title.
"I was a little sad, first because you want to be active and suddenly do nothing for two or three months and I was angry for not fighting for my people, but things happen for a reason and maybe if I had fought the consequences now would be worse," Ramirez said.
