Comments Thread For: Gilberto Ramirez: My Goal Is To Become Five-Division Champ For Golden Boy

[Liondw]

I think if you're a professional boxer, and you're very talented, don't complain too much about not getting the big names to fight.

Just keep winning, and either you'll eventually get a very big fight, or you won't, but you'll keep earning good money. If you retire 60-0 or 50-0 and you never fought a big name, if it's the fault of boxing politics, too bad.

I remember a Danish fighter Brian Nielsen, a heavyweight. I think he was well over 40 fights unbeaten before he lost one, and then got stopped by a past prime Mike Tyson.

If Zurdo keeps on winning, he's going to get a big fight. If Boots Ennis keeps winning, sooner or later some big name will have to fight him I think, from welterweight to middleweight.

[AKAcronym]

Ramirez could very well be a 3 weight champion overnight.

[tokon]

36lbs is a very large rehydration weight gain! It surely must have been a difficult cut for Ramirez?!

[GBP4LIFE]

Zurdo the most avoided in the game!!!

[Superbee]

So Zurdo believes he has something for Bivol or Beterbiev ? ah...OK ... I don't even think he gets pass Nice-Guy-Joe Smith Jr, Pascal, Browne or even Ginger TBH .. But that's just me...

[Drigo]

A great pretender saying he wants to be division champ but continue to fight peddlers to pad his records...

[1Eriugenus]

He's gonna be dead very shortly. He weighed in at 175 then 'replenished' to 206?!? He put on 31lbs ? This absolute eejit is endangering his health & the health of his opponents. From his opponent's perspective, they are entitled to assume they are fighting a LHW not a bridgerweight. From Ramirez' point of view, he must be boiling every drop of moisture out of himself to make 175 meaning that when he gets hit in the head there is nothing cushioning his brain. This is not funny. This is scandalous. Boxing is a very dangerous game when everybody plays by the rules, but when eejits like Ramirez & his corner brazenly break those rules it becomes 'a tragedy waiting to happen'.

[Boricua181]

Zurdo might face Bivol before Beterbiev!

Eddie Hearn: Let’s Do Bivol Vs. Beterbiev Next For Undisputed, Why Do We Have To Wait?
June 23, 2022

Promoter Eddie Hearn wants unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev’s promoters at Top Rank to make the undisputed fight against WBA champion Dmitry Bivol next rather than waiting until next year to put it together.

Hearn says Bivol (20-0, 11 KOs) won’t be able to fight Beterbiev in the first half of 2023 because he’s going to be facing Canelo Alvarez in a rematch in May.

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is planning on having Beterbiev defend against #1 WBO Anthony Yarde in October in London, even though the mandatory isn’t due at this time.

In other words, this is a fight that Arum wants, not what Beterbiev or the fans want. They want the undisputed clash between Bivol and Beterbiev.

Hearn believes that the handlers for Beterbiev realize how good Bivol is after watching him defeat Canelo Alvarez on May 7th, so they’ve decided to take an easier fight against Yarde (22-2, 21 KOs) rather than risk getting beaten.

Arum NOT interested in making Beterbiev vs. Bivol fight

It was clear long before Beterbiev fought Joe Smith Jr last weekend that Arum wasn’t interested in letting his fighter face Bivol.

This is what Arum said last month on May 19th on Fighthype about his lack of interest in matching Beterbiev vs. Bivol:

“Bivol fights on the DAZN platform and we’re not interested in our fighters fighting on DAZN,” said Arum. “Our fighters don’t want to fight on DAZN. They want to fight on ESPN where they get the biggest audience.

“So my suggestion is if the Canelo rematch isn’t available, he should fight Gilberto Ramirez. So Eddie Hearn and Gilberto both do their fights on DAZN, so it [Bivol vs. Ramirez] shouldn’t be a hard fight to make,” said Arum in making it clear back on May 19th that he had NO interest in letting Beterbiev fight Dmitry Bivol.

“Bivol is ready to fight for the undisputed,” said Eddie Hearn to Fight Hub TV. “There’s a lot of smoke & mirrors in boxing where people say, ‘Bivol is ready, he wants to become undisputed.’

“What are you waiting for? We’ve got no fight scheduled for Bivol,” said Hearn in sending a message to the promoters for IBF/WBC/WBO light heavyweight champion.

“So, yeah, they’ve got a mandatory that’s not really a mandatory, but they’re choosing to take it in [Anthony] Yarde],” Hearn continued about wanting to make the Beterbiev vs. Bivol fight NEXT rather than in 2023.

“Let’s do the undisputed next. Why do we have to wait? The fact is, people, know now how good Dmitry Bivol is. Dmitry Bivol is the best 175-pounder in the world.

“Beterbiev is a beast, by the way, but he doesn’t beat Dmitry Bivol. So let’s make that fight now. September, October, November, not waiting because if we wait, Bivol is going to make a defense in September or October, and then we’re going to do the Canelo Alvarez rematch.

“So if you want to be undisputed, strike now. Don’t talk about other fights. Let’s make the fight. I back Dmitry Bivol every day against Beterbiev, who is a great fighter, but Bivol is a special, special fighter,” said Hearn.

https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-news/eddie-hearn-lets-do-bivol-vs-beterbiev-next-for-undisputed-why-do-we-have-to-wait/225440

Zurdo would give Bivol problem's due to his hight, reach, and huge weight (rehydrating to 206 in his last fight), advantages.
I'm not saying that he'd beat master boxer Bivol, but he would give him some serious issues in the ring.
As for Bivol versus Beterbiev, that's the fight everyone is clamoring for right now, except that I see Beterbiev catching, hurting, and taking out Bivol at some point if, and when they meet.

[Boricua181]

He's gonna be dead very shortly. He weighed in at 175 then 'replenished' to 206?!? He put on 31lbs ? This absolute eejit is endangering his health & the health of his opponents. From his opponent's perspective, they are entitled to assume they are fighting a LHW not a bridgerweight. From Ramirez' point of view, he must be boiling every drop of moisture out of himself to make 175 meaning that when he gets hit in the head there is nothing cushioning his brain. This is not funny. This is scandalous. Boxing is a very dangerous game when everybody plays by the rules, but when eejits like Ramirez & his corner brazenly break those rules it becomes 'a tragedy waiting to happen'.

That's absolutely crazy in so many way's, having that much of a weight advantage on your opponent, and it will actually catch up with Ramirez at some point in his career.
Ramirez was actually a heavyweight, fighting a light heavyweight or a cruiser weight in his fight against Bosel.
That said I do think that Ramirez is a very good fighter, but he's not going to become a five division champion.
I don't even think that he's going to break Mayweather's 50-0, record simply because he's not an exceptional fighter.
You have to be a specially gifted fighter to to accomplish those goal's , and Ramirez has to many holes in his overall game.

[Boricua181]

With that kind of talk I wonder if he'll test positive for ******* soon.

Those goal's are unrealistic for a fighter who has to many flaw's in his game, it's just a pipe dream.
A dream that's just not going to come true, but I do have to give him credit for his achievement's up to this point in his career.