Gilberto Ramirez vs. Tommy Karpency - April 12, 2019

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On the undercard of Vasiliy Lomachenko’s lightweight title defense versus Anthony Crolla.

The show will air live on ESPN+, marking the one-year anniversary of the platform launch.

[jamamb]

wow great fight. i guess since zurdo just had his once a year tough fight with hart hes back to the usual.

now hopefully since top rank has a good lhw stable we see him matched vs someone good, but he already said he wants to move back to 168 to uinify after this i thought

[ElJefe]

Is Ramirez the least interesting belt holder at the higher weights?

[gilgamesh]

Fairly mediocre fight, but I figure it'll be reasonably entertaining all the same. I expect Ramirez will be too good for Karpency, but actually wouldn't be surprised if Karpency was able to make a better fight of it than we all might expect.

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So he still hasn’t vacated his 168 belt....

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Is Ramirez the least interesting belt holder at the higher weights?

He has not fought a single decent opposition since he won the title..

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Mexico's Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramírez is training hard for his scheduled debut at 175 pounds, which takes place on April 12 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

27 years of age and a record of 39-0 with 25 knockouts, the native of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, is still the super middleweight champion of the World Boxing Organization, but he intends to climb to a top position in the top 10 pound-for-pound rankings. And he knows that he can achieve two things, unify at 168 pounds or fight a new title in 175.

"I feel like I'm in the best moment of my career, I want to make history and get what I want, but on the other hand I am more motivated than ever, I have Priscila, my fiancee, who supports me unconditionally and that helps me to keep growing. My family is going to grow, my son Braulio is already waiting for his brother, Franco, who is on his way," said Ramírez to ESPN Deportes.

After many years of working with the Zápari family, 'Zurdo' took over the services of coaches Julian Chua and Joel Flores, with whom he gets ready to face Tommy Karpency in a few days in the main supporting bout of the Top Rank card they will star Vasiliy Lomachenko and Anthony Crolla and that ESPN will broadcast.

"I feel happy with Julian and Joel, very motivated, I learned a lot in each training session and above all, they are always intense when training, I feel like we've been working together for a long time even though we have only been for eight weeks," said Ramirez.

"I'm looking forward to getting into the ring this April 12, for the fans to enjoy my performance. I'll be in my best condition and I want to give them a big fight. If everything goes well, we'll try to unify titles at 168 or we'll see if we're given an opportunity at 175 pounds, I want to be in the ranked among the best pound for pound fighters."

[diddy]

Zurdo is a -5000 favorite. Am I nuts or are those odds way too wide? Karpency is the bigger guy and not THAT bad.

[oogiebe]

Ramirez has one of the most unremarkable 39-0 records. I thought he was moving up and instead has a pretty lousy matchup. Maybe Karpency can find it in him to make a decent fight of it, but I doubt it.

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Ramirez has one of the most unremarkable 39-0 records. I thought he was moving up and instead has a pretty lousy matchup. Maybe Karpency can find it in him to make a decent fight of it, but I doubt it.

Hope so. Ramirez might be young but so is Canelo. Or even Munguia already has a better resume that Zurdo.

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Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez will be getting a purse of $250,000, and his opponent light heavyweight Tommy Karpency will be getting $100,000.