Gilberto Ramirez's Coach Erupts: Zurdo Would Destroy Uzcategui!

By Ryan Burton

The trainer of WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez read this article by BoxingScene.com's Steve Kim with great amusement: https://www.boxingscene.com/jose-uzcategui-willing-replace-george-groves-wbss-final--125909

At the end of the story, Jose "Bolivita" Uzcategui's agent Sean Gibbons says that Uzcategui makes Ramirez, "look like an amateur. Zurdo is an amateur compared to this guy. This is a real super middleweight."

This past Saturday night, Uzcategui got revenge over Andre Dirrell with a TKO victory in their rematch at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The win gave Uzcategui the IBF's interim super middleweight belt and made him the mandatory challenger to current world champion Caleb Truax, who is going to face James DeGale in a rematch in the coming weeks.

If Uzcategui is unable to get an immediate fight with the Truax-DeGale winner, he is very ready to face Ramirez in ths ring.

Gibbons used to work with team Ramirez, and Ramirez's trainer Hector Zapari believes that he is just trying to pump up his fighter.

"He is just trying to hype up his name. He knows Dirrell isn't on Zurdo's level," said Zapari in reference to Uzcaegui's knockout victory.

Ramirez was in action last month when he knocked out an over matched Habib Ahmed in 6 rounds in Texas. Ramirez plans on returning to action in June.

"Zurdo is on another level. 'Bolivita' is a good fighter but there are levels and he isn't on Zurdo's level. Zurdo isn't like Sean Gibbon's other fighter Cesar Juarez (who was stopped by Isaac Dogboe in January) either. He looks like an amateur the way he throws his punches. Zurdo would destroy Bolivta and send him to the basement!" Zapari told BoxingScene.com.

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