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Wow...Triple G will move up for Ramirez???...
Updated at 08:02 PM EDT, Sat Apr 16, 2016
Golovkin's Promoter: We'd Fight Ramirez at 168, Return To 160
By Rick Reeno
Last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramirez (34-0, 24KOs) became the first Mexican fighter to capture a world title at 168-pounds, when he boxed his way to an impressive twelve round unanimous decision to secure the WBO super middleweight championship from longtime champion Arthur Abraham of Germany.
The victory has now positioned Ramirez for several lucrative opportunities.
One of those opportunities could come against WBA/IBO/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs), who defends his titles next Saturday against mandatory challenger Dominic Wade.
Golovkin's promoter Tom Loeffler, and head trainer Abel Sanchez, were ringside last week in Las Vegas and watched Ramirez's victory very closely.
Should Golovkin win next Saturday, the next target on the list is the winner of next month's pay-per-view showdown between Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Amir Khan. Golovkin is the mandatory challenger to Canelo's WBC middleweight title.
If they are unable to secure Canelo or Khan, then the next likely target is WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders.
Whether it's the next fight or at some point in the fall, Loeffler - and Ramirez's promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank - are very interested in putting together a Golovkin fight.
"I think [Ramirez] looked great. When you can beat a veteran like Abraham, in the way that he dominated him with his jab and his boxing abilities and the body shots - I think that's a great victory for him," Loeffler told BoxingScene.com.
"We've been talking to Bob about [that fight] if he won [against Abraham]....to make a Triple G fight. It all depends on what happens with Canelo and what happens with Saunders. But I could see that fight happening towards the end of the year. It would be a huge fight in Texas."
Should Golovkin move up to fight Ramirez, the top names at 160 will have to avoid breathing a sigh of relief - because win or lose GGG would make an immediate return to the middleweight division.
"He would go up to fight Zurdo at 168 and then come down to continue to fight at 160-pounds," Loeffler said.
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Ward has moved up, so it's safe to now.Comment
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So who wins between Triple G and Ramirez? This just in!!!... Triple G also willing to go to a whopping 172lbs to fight retired Carl Froch...WOW...Oooh Weeee!!!...Who do you have in that one???...
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It's pretty simple really: move up once he has unified.
That's been the plan all along...
' omg he wants to be the first guy since hopkins to unify the division? omg wat a ***** white booy scared of da real fiters like ward n mayweather omg pusssssay lil g'Comment
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I dont believe he wants to unify the division?
what?
why would he move up before he has unified?
Im sick and tired of these haters spewing their nonsense.
Yes there is very limited competition at 160 is that his fault: no
Yes canelo is a pre madonna and is scared to fight like the rest is that his fault:noComment
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nah, I want him to get the lineal altho that right now belongs to a jokerComment
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