By Dan Ambrose: WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (34-0, 24 KOs) is thinking past his scheduled defense against voluntary challenger Dominik Britsch (32-1-1, 11 KOs) next month on July 23 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ramirez, 24, is being lined up by his promoter Bob Arum for a big fight against middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in the near future, perhaps in early 2017 if not this year. Ramirez wants to fight a unification match against one of the other 168lb champions in James DeGale, Badou Jack, Felix Sturm or Giovanni De Carolis.
Whether any of those fights can happen is unclear. DeGale and Jack are facing each other in a unification match in the summer. That’ll combine the WBC and IBF titles.
By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum isn’t giving Golden Boy Promotions flagship fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez any chance of beating K2 Promotions middleweight Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin when the two of them face each other eventually. 
By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions made mention this week of having his highly popular fighter Gennady “GGG” Golovkin move up to super middleweight to face the talented new WBO 168lb champion Gilberto Ramirez (34-0, 24 KOs) this year if WBC belt holder Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and/or WBO champ Billy Joe Saunders don’t step up to the plate to face Gennady. 
By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler said on Thursday in his press conference that Top Rank promotions reached out to him about matching Golovkin against their highly hyped unbeaten fighter Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (34-0, 24 KOs) this year. 
By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (34-0, 24 KOs) did his job last Saturday night in schooling an old, slow and small WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (44-5, 29 KOs) in defeating him by a 12 round unanimous decision to take his title in front of a large crowd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. 
By Jim Dower: Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs) made weight on Friday for his third fight against Tim Bradley (33-1-1, 13 KOs) for this Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum and trainer Freddie Roach have been talking up a fight between Pacquiao and WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for the past two weeks. They’ve been talking more about Canelo vs. Pacquiao than the Bradley fight. It gives one the impression that Canelo’s name has been used to help attract interest/pay-per-view buys for the Pacquiao-Bradley 3 fight. It’s proven that if boxing fans think a much bigger fight is just over the horizon, they’ll be more interested in paying to see a less than appealing fight like this Saturday’s contest because Pacquiao and Bradley. 
By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is so optimistic about his fighter Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez’s chance of beating WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (44-4, 29 KOs) this Saturday night, he’s already looking for an opponent for Ramirez’s first defense of the WBO 168lb title for his next planned fight this summer on July 23 on the undercard of WBO 140lb champion Terence Crawford’s next fight on HBO Championship Boxing.