Former featherweight titleholder Robeisy Ramirez has a new promoter after signing with Raizd Boxing, the nascent boxing company announced on Monday.
Boxing reporter Carlos Linares was first with the news.
Ramirez won Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016, defected from Cuba in 2018, and turned pro with Top Rank in 2019. He lost his pro debut but steadied himself after, eventually winning a vacant featherweight world title in April 2023 with a decision over Isaac Dogboe.
Ramirez made one successful defense before suffering a majority decision loss to Rafael Espinoza in December 2023. In his last outing, Ramirez suffered a worse defeat in his rematch with Espinoza in December 2024, getting stopped in the sixth round. He is 14-3 (9 KOs). Earlier this year, Ramirez confirmed that he was no longer with Top Rank.
Raizd Boxing is so new that its first fight night hasn’t yet taken place. It is scheduled for May 29 at Humo Arena in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Although a graphic appeared earlier in April depicting Ramirez on the May 29 card – apparently prior to his signing with Raizd Boxing being official – he has not yet been announced for the event.
The show is currently set to feature Uzbekistan’s own former unified junior featherweight titleholder Murodjon Akhmadaliev, 14-2 (11 KOs), returning for the first time since his decision loss last September to Naoya Inoue.
Akhmadaliev is scheduled to face Hegly Mosqueda, 27-1 (20 KOs), a 31-year-old from Venezuela who has won two straight since being outpointed by the 9-0 Felix Parrilla in April 2024. Those two victories were a quick TKO of a 3-23 foe and an eight-round decision over the 30-8 Nestor Gonzalez.
Also announced for this card is a junior middleweight bout between Magomed Kurbanov and Tonghui Li. That would appear to be a rescheduled date and location, as DAZN’s broadcast schedule had previously listed Kurbanov-Li as taking place on May 9 in Phuket, Thailand.
Kurbanov, 26-2 (14 KOs), won decisions over Liam Smith, Patrick Teixeira, Johan Gonzalez and Michel Soro between 2021 and 2023. But he was stopped in the fifth round by Israil Madrimov in 2024 and dropped a split decision to Pavel Sosulin last July.
Li, 16-2 (9 KOs), has won six consecutive bouts since a split decision loss in 2018 to the 4-2-1 Jung Kyoung Lee.
Plus Lazizbek Mullojonov is somehow slated to perform despite a suspension. Mullojonov won Olympic gold at heavyweight in 2024 while representing Uzbekistan. He is 7-0 (7 KOs) in the paid ranks but was suspended for three years – apparently only from amateur competition – after testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug.
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