Viktor Postol: record, next fight and profile →
Ramirez-Postol, Take 3! The long-awaited showdown between WBC/WBO junior welterweight world champion Jose Ramirez and former world champion and WBC mandatory challenger Viktor “The Iceman” Postol will take place at the MGM Grand Conference Center Saturday, Aug. 29.
After two delays due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Viktor Postol will finally challenge WBC, WBO super lightweight champion Jose Carlos Ramirez at MGM Grand's Conference Center in Las Vegas, on August 29th.
The 30-day weights are in for the postponed clash between the super lightweight champion of the World Boxing Council, Jose Carlos Ramírez, and former world champion Viktor Postol, who is the mandatory challenger.
Bob Arum’s promotional company has solidified new dates for the Eleider Alvarez-Joe Smith and Jose Ramirez-Viktor Postol fights. Alvarez-Smith, a WBO light heavyweight elimination match, will headline an ESPN show August 22. Ramirez will make a mandated defense of his WBC super lightweight title when he opposes Postol in a main event ESPN will televise August 29.
During a recent interview with BoxingScene.com, Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum outlined some of the plans for the rest of the year, which he said will include weekly – instead of twice-weekly – ESPN cards in August from the conference center “bubble” inside the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The Nevada State Athletic Commission recently approved Top Rank date requests for Aug. 6, Aug. 13, Aug. 20 and Aug. 27, all Thursdays.
Regis Prograis prefaced making his Jose Ramirez-Viktor Postol pick by emphasizing that his predictions are almost always wrong. His latest example was Prograis predicting Deontay Wilder would knock out Tyson Fury in their rematch. Prograis still is confident Ramirez not only will be beat Postol, but that the unbeaten WBC/WBO 140-pound champion will become the first opponent to knock out the durable Ukrainian.
In keeping to what his parents taught him and how he’s carried himself over the course of 33 pro fights, Postol is currently in Southern California, far from his home in Ukraine, training for a fight he isn’t sure will happen with WBC / WBO champion Jose Ramirez. But since he signed on the dotted line, he’s here, ready to work until he’s told otherwise.
A career-long layoff beyond their own control is enough to make a boxer consider any option if it meant returning to the ring sooner rather than later. Jose Ramirez is currently in that predicament, sadly all while coming off of the best win of his career.
The third time may be the charm for WBC and WBO super lightweight champion Jose Ramirez. Ramirez’s fights against Viktor Postol were twice postponed due to the Covid-19 global pandemic, first on Feb. 1 in China and again on May 9 in Fresno, California.
By Keith idec - Jose Ramirez returned last week to trainer Robert Garcia’s gym in Riverside, California. It marked the third time since December that the WBC/WBO 140-pound champion began preparing for his mandatory WBC title defense versus Viktor Postol. Ramirez-Postol is the only boxing match that has been postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Ramirez remains optimistic that their fight finally will happen...