WBO cruiserweight champion Chris Billiam and WBA champ Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez will meet in a 12-round unification struggle on November sixteenth at The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
This two-belt unification conflict between ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (46-1, 30 KOs) and Billiam Smith (20-1, 13 KOs) is a part of a Riyadh Season occasion.
Ramirez’s Resurgence at Cruiserweight
It’s a toss-up struggle. Ramirez, 33, has turned his profession round since shedding to WBA mild heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol on November 5, 2022, and subsequently shifting as much as cruiserweight.
Zurdo Ramirez has since gained his final two fights, beating Joe Smith Jr. by a 12-round unanimous determination and dethroning WBA cruiserweight champion Arsen Goulamirian, profitable a 12-round unanimous determination on March thirtieth in Inglewood, California.
Billiam Smith, 33, has gained 11 fights in a row and has seemed excellent just lately, beating Richard Riakporhe, Mateusz Masternak, Lawrence Okolie, Armend Xhoxhaj, and Isaac Chamberlain.
Smith’s victory over WBO champion Okolie was particularly spectacular as a result of many boxing followers had predicted that the 6’5″ Lawrence would win. It’s unclear if Okolie’s struggles to make weight factored into the loss. It was apparent that he was on the finish of his run at cruiserweight and wanted to maneuver up in weight.
The previous WBO tremendous middleweight champion Zurdo Ramirez has modified his preventing fashion in his final two fights, going from being a quantity puncher to a intelligent boxer.
He’s used motion, jabbing, and clinching to win his final two fights in opposition to Joe Smith Jr. and Arsen Goulamirian to reinvent himself as a cruiserweight after his loss to Bivol.
Ramirez will want greater than tips to be victorious in opposition to Billiam Smith as a result of he shall be making use of lots of strain, and he is not going to have issues coping with the 6’3″ champion’s mobility.
It’s unclear who shall be on the undercard of the Ramirez vs. Billiam Smith struggle, however provided that it’s a Riyadh Season occasion, there ought to be some attention-grabbing fights.
Rumored undercard
- William Zepeda vs. Tevin Farmer
- Jose Ramirez vs. Arnold Barboza
- Bek ‘The Bully’ vs. Lester Martinez
- Oscar Duarte vs. Kenneth Sims Jr
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that includes a major struggle between Cruiserweight champions Ramirez (WBA) and Smith (WBO), together with fights that includes high boxing 🥊🔥🗓️ November 16
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