By Chris Williams: WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (37-0, 25 KOs) beat #4 WBO Habib Ahmed (22-1, 17 KOs) by a 6th round stoppage on Saturday night to remain undefeated in a fight televised by ESPN Boxing at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
By Chris Williams: Gilberto Ramirez, challenger Habib Ahmed, Jerwin Ancajas and Israel Gonzalez made weight on Friday for their fight this Saturday night on ESPN at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas. This is a Top Rank promoted card, with main event and co-feature fights being mismatches. These are both showcase fights. In other words, mismatches, which is why the boxing public isn’t too excited about the fights. This will be defense No.3 for the Ramirez for his WBO 168 lb. strap.
By Chris Williams: Terence Crawford (32-0, 23 KOs) will be having a meeting this Saturday with his promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank for him to finalize his title shot against WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn (18-0-1, 12 KOs) for April 14 on ESPN at Madison Square Garden, New York.
By Harry Hogg: Super middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez defends his WBO belt on Saturday night against the undefeated and very much unknown Ghanaian Habib Ahmed at the American Bank Center in Texas.
By Dan Ambrose: WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (36-0, 24 KOs) says he’s ready to face the winner of the February 17th fight between WBA 168 lb. champion George Groves and IBO champion Chris Eubank Jr.
By Chris Williams: Habib Ahmed (25-0-1, 17 KOs) says he’s coming to American to take the title away from WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (36-0, 24 KOs) next month on February 3 at the Bank of America Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas.
By Juan Flores: WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (36-0, 24 KOs) says middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) didn’t deserve a victory over Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez last September. Ramirez says Golovkin does NOT fight with the Mexican style that he claims to fight with. That’s the not the Mexican style of fighting, says Ramirez.
By Jim Dower: WBO World featherweight champion Oscar Valdez (22-0, 19 KOs) weighed in at 125.8 pounds for his fight on ESPN this Friday night against unbeaten #4 WBO contender Genesis Servania (29-0, 12 KOs) at the Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona. The 26-year-old Servania weighed in at 125.4 lbs.
By Dan Ambrose: A year after winning the WBO World super middleweight title last year in 2016, Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (34-0, 24 KOs) will be making his first defense of his WBO belt against #10 WBC Max Bursak (33-4-1, 15 KOs) on April 22 at a still to be determined venue in California. Some boxing fans see Ramirez as the next Canelo Alvarez, but a better version with more boxing skills and more potential.
Ramirez, 25, won the World Boxing Organization 168lb title last year in April in beating former WBO champion Arthur Abraham by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision by the scores 120-108 x 3. Ramirez hasn’t fought since due to an injury to one of the knuckles in his right hand that he suffered while training.
By Dan Ambrose: WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez says he doesn’t like the September 10 fight between unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) and unbeaten welterweight Kell “Special K” Brook (36-0, 25 KOs), because he doesn’t think Brook has any chance of winning the fight. Ramirez thinks Brook will try moving around the ring for two or three rounds, but the match will end as soon as Triple G lands one of his big shots.
“For me, I don’t like the fight, but if you want to fight with me, then let’s do it,” said Ramirez to fighthub.com. “No, I don’t give him [Brook] a chance. I think he’s going to move around for two or three rounds, but when Gennady throws a good punch, he’s going to knock him out. One punch,” said Ramirez.