Robeisy Ramirez has a date and a website for his subsequent combat.
Now all that the WBO featherweight champion wants is to safe an opponent. The Nevada State Athletic Fee accredited a November 4 date for Bob Arum’s High Rank Inc., Ramirez’s promoter, at its month-to-month assembly Tuesday morning in Las Vegas.
BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the Cuban-born Ramirez (13-1, 8 KOs) will headline High Rank’s present that night time at Tahoe Blue Occasion Middle in Stateline, Nevada. ESPN+ will stream Ramirez’s 126-pound title protection as its most important occasion November 4.
Ramirez, 29, is free to make a voluntary protection of his championship as a result of the WBO’s primary featherweight contender, Joet Gonzalez, misplaced a 12-round unanimous resolution to IBF champ Luis Alberto Lopez on Friday night time at American Financial institution Middle in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Mexico’s Lopez advised BoxingScene.com not too long ago that he needs to fulfill Ramirez in what could be an intriguing 126-pound title unification combat. Lopez (29-2, 16 KOs) just isn’t anticipated, nonetheless, to combat Ramirez simply seven weeks after he went 12 rounds in opposition to Gonzalez (26-4, 15 KOs).
Ramirez, in the meantime, has emerged as one of many high featherweights in boxing.
The 2-time Olympic gold medalist is 13-0 since he stunningly misplaced his professional debut to Denver’s Adan Gonzales by cut up resolution in August 2019 at Temple College’s Liacouras Middle in Philadelphia. Ramirez avenged that four-round defeat by beating Gonzalez unanimously in a six-round rematch that passed off in July 2020 at MGM Grand Convention Middle in Las Vegas.
Arum talked about Ramirez as a possible opponent in 2024 for Japanese celebrity Naoya Inoue (25-0, 22 KOs), who may transfer as much as the featherweight division if he totally unifies boxing’s 122-pound championships in his subsequent bout by beating the Philippines’ Marlon Tapales (37-3, 19 KOs). Ramirez stopped Japan’s Satoshi Shimizu (11-2, 10 KOs) within the fifth spherical of his final combat, which was a part of the Inoue-Stephen Fulton undercard July 25 at Ariake Area in Tokyo.
That victory marked Ramirez’s first protection of the WBO featherweight crown he gained April 1, when Ramirez beat Ghana’s Isaac Dogboe by unanimous resolution at Arduous Rock Lodge & On line casino Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ramirez and Dogboe (24-3, 15 KOs) fought for the then-vacant WBO featherweight title that Emanuel Navarrette vacated to maneuver as much as the 130-pound division.
Keith Idec is a senior author/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He could be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.