Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya informed the media right this moment that he heard that heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is contemplating transferring again down in weight to face the winner of Saturday’s unification conflict between WBA cruiserweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (46-1, 30 KOs) and WBO Cruiserweight World Champion Chris Billam-Smith (20-1, 13 KOs).
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Ramirez vs. Billiam-Smith are headlining, reside on DAZN in a non-PPV occasion on Latino Night time from The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The data that De La Hoya informed the media about unified heavyweight champion Usyk returning to cruiserweight to combat the winner of the Ramirez-Billiam-Smith combat has already been refuted by Usyk, who mentioned he received’t be transferring again down and that he could be staying at heavyweight the rest of his profession.
When De La Hoya introduced throughout right this moment’s press convention that Usyk could be combating the winner, you possibly can see Billiam-Smith frowning on stage and the announcer Chris Mannix shaking his head as if to say, ‘That’s faux information from De La Hoya.
You may perceive De La Hoya eager to hype the Ramirez vs. Billiam-Smith combat by developing with the Usyk stuff, as a result of he’s received to do one thing to hype this combat. There’s been NO curiosity from followers within the U.S. in that Ramirez-Billiam-Smith combat or the co-feature between Jose Ramirez and Arnold Barboza Jr.
The one combat on the cardboard that followers are eager about is the William Zepeda vs. Tevin Farmer conflict. Apart from that, there’s some curiosity within the light-weight conflict between Oscar Duarte and Botirzhon Akhmedov.
“I heard via the grapevine {that a} particular world champion within the heavyweight division is contemplating transferring right down to cruiserweight and combating the winner of Saturday’s combat,” mentioned promoter Oscar De La Hoya throughout Thursday’s remaining press convention for the Gilberto Ramirez vs. Chris Billiam-Smith card on DAZN.
“So, Oleksandr Usyk is contemplating coming down and combating the winner of Saturday evening. That’s how particular this combat is.”
