Comments Thread For: Gilberto Ramirez Injures Hand, Withdraws From HBO PPV

[Motorcity Cobra]

That bum Britsch had no business fighting for a world title

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WBO 168lb champion Gilberto Ramírez injured. July 23 bout is off.

— Ben Jacobs (@Ben2012_London) July 6, 2016

[Eff Pandas]

What he do? Trip over something with all the running he does in the ring?

I didn't see anything wrong with that fight for what it was. Seemed like a decent enough keep busy fight. And I suspect all this changes is another decent enough keep busy fight a month or three from now depending on how serious his injury is.

[Motorcity Cobra]

What he do? Trip over something with all the running he does in the ring?

I didn't see anything wrong with that fight for what it was. Seemed like a decent enough keep busy fight. And I suspect all this changes is another decent enough keep busy fight a month or three from now depending on how serious his injury is.

A middleweight not even ranked in the top 10 in Germany moving up to face the WBC champion at Super Middleweight should not happen. Britsch wasn't even a top 100 ranked Middleweight. He does nothing since Feb. Wasn't even ranked by the WBO in the Middleweight division, but gets moved up to a top 15 (one spot above Rohan Murdoch) Super Middlweight in the WBO rankings in May when the fight was announced. That fight was a serious mismatch on the Rod Salka level. Britsch had never even been a domestic champ. He lost that fight to a guy with a 5-3 record.

[Eff Pandas]

A middleweight not even ranked in the top 10 in Germany moving up to face the WBC champion at Super Middleweight should not happen. Britsch wasn't even a top 100 ranked Middleweight. He does nothing since Feb. Wasn't even ranked by the WBO in the Middleweight division, but gets moved up to a top 15 (one spot above Rohan Murdoch) Super Middlweight in the WBO rankings in May when the fight was announced. That fight was a serious mismatch on the Rod Salka level. Britsch had never even been a domestic champ. He lost that fight to a guy with a 5-3 record.

Idk to me Ramirez isn't realllllly the champion so this is like that on the job training thing that I'm seeing many guys doing, more or less, lately like Wilder, Lomo pre-his last fight (& to a lesser degree than the other guys I suppose), Joshua & etc & so on. Its a experience gaining fight for a guy who's really more of a contender than a champion if we are being reasonable about how things really are shaped in the divisions Ramirez & these other guys compete in.

And we all know the alphabet group rankings are corrupted or compiled by incompetent individuals so that **** is nothing new & actually pretty par for the course with how things work in boxing today, like it or not.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Idk to me Ramirez isn't realllllly the champion so this is like that on the job training thing that I'm seeing many guys doing, more or less, lately like Wilder, Lomo pre-his last fight (& to a lesser degree than the other guys I suppose), Joshua & etc & so on. Its a experience gaining fight for a guy who's really more of a contender than a champion if we are being reasonable about how things really are shaped in the divisions Ramirez & these other guys compete in.

And we all know the alphabet group rankings are corrupted or compiled by incompetent individuals so that **** is nothing new & actually pretty par for the course with how things work in boxing today, like it or not.

How much experience can he gain from fighting a middleweight who isn't even in the top ten in his own country? An experience fight would be fighting a tough supermiddle like Murray, Traux, Korobov, Porky Medina . Fighters who have competed on the world level but fell just short. Britsch competed on a domestic level a weight class below and came up short. I just checked an he did win a vacant domestic supermiddlweight title against a guy who was 6-0 and 21 years old. A prospect.

[Eff Pandas]

How much experience can he gain from fighting a middleweight who isn't even in the top ten in his own country?

Thats a question for Ramirez & Bob. But I do think just getting some successful defenses of a title is a confidence boosting experience for a fighter to have & I think its sorta a standard thing nowadays when there is a clear gap between the level of the best champion(s) in a division & the also ran champion(s) like Ramirez, Wilder & Joshua for the most obvious examples.

[kiaba360]

Hope TR puts that $$$ towards a better match-up.

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Comments Thread For: Gilberto Ramirez Injures Hand, Withdraws From HBO PPV

Top Rank has announced that WBO Super middleweight Champion Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez (34-0) suffered a hand injury in training and was forced to withdraw from his scheduled defense against Germany's Dominik Britsch (32-2-1) - which was set to take place on the undercard of Terence Crawford versus Viktor Postol at MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas July 23, 2016. Photos by Mikey Williams.
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[OctoberRed]

Nobody cares. This really was a garbage fight

[nycsmooth]

A crap bout that did not matter after he was handed the title from a non resistant double A ...Zurdohas had mostly setups all the way up to his title fight ...he can't even now b his own main event ...Crawford can carry the show by himself, he's a fighter & a champion