Gilberto Ramirez: record, next fight and profile →
Last week Top Rank CEO Bob Arum told BoxingScene.com's Keith Idec that he planned on getting, "the best possible opponent" for WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto Ramirez (38-0) should he get past Roamer Angulo (23-1) this past Saturday night.
Gilberto Ramirez (38-0) may have dominated Roamer Angulo (23-1) Saturday night in his ESPN headlining fight but it wasn't easy. The final scores were 120-108 and 119-109 twice but the 26-year-old's trainer Hector Zapari said that getting down to the 168 pound super middleweight limit is starting to affect the nearly 6'3" Ramirez's performances in the ring.
WBO welterweight champion Gilberto Ramirez (38-0) won a workmanlike unanimous decision over Roamer Angulo (23-1) in Oklahoma City on Saturday night. While not exciting, Ramirez easily won the fight by the scores of 119-109 twice and 120-108. Angulo had 20 knockouts among his 23 victories and Ramirez's trainer Hector Zapari said that they were surprised at the tactics that he employed in the fight.
Fewer viewers watched the show that featured Gilberto Ramirez’s super middleweight title defense Saturday night than tuned in for the previous ESPN broadcast he headlined. According to ratings revealed Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research, an average audience of 632,000 watched the telecast Saturday night in which Ramirez beat Alexis Angulo in the main event. Ramirez’s prior performance on ESPN, a sixth-round stoppage of Habib Ahmed, drew an average viewership of 741,000 on February 3 from Corpus Christi, Texas.
Gilberto Ramirez considers their controversial split draw a fair result of the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin fight. Ramirez rooted for Alvarez to win because he is a fellow Mexican and a former sparring partner. The unbeaten WBO super middleweight champion still doesn’t think Alvarez did enough to beat Golovkin convincingly in their 12-round middleweight title fight September 16 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Gilberto Ramirez: I can’t get a good handle on Ramirez. On one hand, the lanky Mexican is a good, durable boxer who has never lost. On the other hand, he isn’t particularly quick or athletic and doesn’t take advantage of his height and length when he fights, which are liabilities.
Jesse Hart wants a second shot at Gilberto Ramirez, but the feeling isn’t quite mutual. Ramirez seems content with his unanimous-decision victory over Hart in what was a very competitive super middleweight title fight September 22 in Tucson, Arizona. Hart survived a second-round knockdown, hurt Ramirez in the 11th round and lost by slim margins on all three judges’ scorecards (115-112, 115-112, 114-113).
Ramirez, Angulo Fight Photos Gallery - OKLAHOMA CITY – It wasn’t always easy, but Gilberto “Zurdo Ramirez got the job done. Ramirez made the fourth successful defense of his WBO super middleweight title, defeating previously unbeaten Alexis Angulo by unanimous decision in front of 5,241 fans at the Chesapeake Energy Arena. (Photos by Mikey Williams).
Gilberto Ramirez promised that Roamer Alexis Angulo would be the first to taste defeat - when the two undefeated fighters collided in Oklahoma on Saturday night. Ramirez unanimously outpointed Angulo to retain the WBO super middleweight championship, winning 120-108 on one judge's card and 119-109 on the other two.
By Keith Idec - Gilberto Ramirez managed to avoid Alexis Angulo’s dangerous right hand and out-boxed him Saturday night. The unbeaten WBO super middleweight champion was busier, mostly fought smart and won their 12-round bout by unanimous decision. Judges Javier Alvarez (119-109), Levi Martinez (120-10...