Jesus Ramos realizes that some skilled contenders in Erickson Lubin’s place wouldn’t have agreed to combat him.
The highly effective southpaw has crushed Brian Mendoza, who viciously knocked out Sebastian Fundora, an opponent who beat Lubin in one of the crucial improbable motion fights of 2022. Ramos dominated beforehand unbeaten Joey Spencer in his final combat and stopped spoiler Vladimir Hernandez within the sixth spherical two bouts earlier than he opposed Spencer.
The 22-year-old junior middleweight contender represents actual threat for Lubin (25-2, 18 KOs), who will try and combat his manner again into place to problem for a 154-pound championship on the Canelo Alvarez-Jermell Charlo undercard September 30 at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas.
“I’m arising and he’s obtained a little bit of a reputation already,” Ramos instructed BoxingScene.com. “You understand, he’s risking quite a bit. I’ve gotta give him my respect. I really feel like he fights anyone. I respect him as a result of he misplaced to [Jermell] Charlo early in his profession and he constructed himself again up, fought good names, so I actually respect that, however we’re right here to win.”
Ramos (20-0, 16 KOs) dropped Spencer late within the first spherical of their battle between formidable, unbeaten combatants March 25 at MGM Grand Backyard Area in Las Vegas. The Casa Grande, Arizona native largely managed the motion thereafter and led Spencer (16-1, 10 KOs) by extensive distances on all three scorecards when Spencer’s father/coach, Jason Spencer, stopped their scheduled 10-rounder on the David Benavidez-Caleb Plant undercard.
The rising Ramos acknowledges, although, that Lubin is a extra succesful, confirmed opponent than Spencer. The powerful, robust southpaw from Orlando, Florida stopped former IBF/IBO/WBA 154-pound champion Jeison Rosario within the sixth spherical and simply outpointed contenders Nathaniel Gallimore and Terrell Gausha between his first-round knockout loss to Charlo in October 2017 and his technical-knockout defeat to Fundora in what was a really aggressive interim title combat in April 2022.
“He’s an enormous step up,” Ramos mentioned. “He clearly has confronted higher competitors than Joey Spencer did, however I really feel like I’ve been in there with loads of worthy names as properly, like Brian Mendoza and Vladimir Hernandez, who was coming off an enormous win as properly. So, I really feel like I’ve been in there with nice fighters as properly, so I don’t really feel like I’m inexperienced at this stage. I really feel like I’m prepared for this.”
Ramos counseled Lubin and others on the Showtime Pay-Per-View portion of the Alvarez-Charlo undercard for accepting daunting assignments. Along with Ramos-Lubin, younger middleweights Elijah Garcia (15-0, 12 KOs) and Armando Resendiz (14-1, 10 KOs) and former champions Yordenis Ugas (27-5, 12 KOs) and Mario Barrios (27-2, 18 KOs) will sq. off in 12-rounders earlier than Alvarez (59-2-2, 39 KOs) defends his IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO tremendous middleweight titles towards Charlo (35-1-1, 19 KOs).
“I feel that’s the proper mindset proper now,” Ramos mentioned. “Everybody’s prepared to combat one another and we’ve confirmed it. We’re preventing one another at a stage the place I’m arising and he’s making an attempt to get again within the combine. We would like this. We wanna show ourselves. We wanna make statements. All that makes for extra thrilling fights.”
Keith Idec is a senior author/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He will be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.