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Coming off his tough twelve round decision win over unbeaten mandatory challenger Jesse Hart on September 22nd, WBO super middleweight titlist, Gilberto Ramirez is already looking at two fights - with Top Rank setting down two dates in the first half of the year.

Ramirez will first see action back in the United States in the first quarter of the year, then fight in Mexico for the first time since 2013. Ten of Ramirez's last eleven bouts have taken place in the United States, with eleventh going down in China.

Bob Arum, the founder of Top Rank, advised BS.com - "He's fighting February 3rd in the United States and then on May 12th he will fight in Mazatlan(Mexico), we'll put a real good card on underneath."

As for how he'll conclude 2018, Ramirez may take the Manny Pacquiao route. Pacquiao traveled over to Australia in July to defend his WBO welterweight title against Jeff Horn in a stadium fight that drew 51,000 fans.

Arum said - "There's an up-and-coming super middleweight in Australia named (Rohan) Murdock (20-1, 15 KOs), a good looking kid and maybe by that time he'll be ready to fight Gilberto in Australia."

Arum said - "There's an up-and-coming super middleweight in Australia named (Rohan) Murdock (20-1, 15 KOs), a good looking kid and maybe by that time he'll be ready to fight Gilberto in Australia."

Looks like this Murdock kid is already up 11-0 on the scorecards.. gonna screw Zurdo like he did Pacman..

Why does Arum think Australia is the new mecca of boxing? Lol

would be a dumpy fight. ppl knock horn but hes deffo better than murdock. rohan just an australian bursak at best. arum seems to fall in love with locations. can you imagine how he'd jizz to a guy who was half aussie and half chinsese from macau.

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

Arum said - "There's an up-and-coming super middleweight in Australia named (Rohan) Murdock (20-1, 15 KOs), a good looking kid and maybe by that time he'll be ready to fight Gilberto in Australia."

Looks like this Murdock kid is already up 11-0 on the scorecards.. gonna screw Zurdo like he did Pacman..

Why does Arum think Australia is the new mecca of boxing? Lol

He’s following the money - 50,000 tickets plus TV cash.

3132DW wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

Arum said - "There's an up-and-coming super middleweight in Australia named (Rohan) Murdock (20-1, 15 KOs), a good looking kid and maybe by that time he'll be ready to fight Gilberto in Australia."

Looks like this Murdock kid is already up 11-0 on the scorecards.. gonna screw Zurdo like he did Pacman..

Why does Arum think Australia is the new mecca of boxing? Lol

He’s following the money - 50,000 tickets plus TV cash.

Why not try Azteca?

Not sure if this Murdoch kid is more known that Horn.

ramirez is probably totally unknown in australia. its not at all like a global sports star such as manny coming over for a fight. aussie casuals prob give zero fuckss about ramirez. manny was the main factor in that being an aussie mega fight. look at the profile of horns previous fights.

So they will keep pretending that there are no DeGale, Groves, Smith, Eubank, Benavidez ?

boxing_rocks wrote:So they will keep pretending that there are no DeGale, Groves, Smith, Eubank, Benavidez ?

When do Arum's boys ever unify? They just like to hold the WBO title and thats it.. was is Donaire? Their last unfied champion?

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:So they will keep pretending that there are no DeGale, Groves, Smith, Eubank, Benavidez ?

When do Arum's boys ever unify? They just like to hold the WBO title and thats it.. was is Donaire? Their last unfied champion?

Umm, Crawford just became the third guy to hold all four in history.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:So they will keep pretending that there are no DeGale, Groves, Smith, Eubank, Benavidez ?

When do Arum's boys ever unify? They just like to hold the WBO title and thats it.. was is Donaire? Their last unfied champion?

Umm, Crawford just became the third guy to hold all four in history.

Yeh, I forgot about him lol.

Apart from him? It wasn't the hardest division to unify.. Not taking anything away from him..

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

boxing_rocks wrote:So they will keep pretending that there are no DeGale, Groves, Smith, Eubank, Benavidez ?

When do Arum's boys ever unify? They just like to hold the WBO title and thats it.. was is Donaire? Their last unfied champion?

Crawford unified. Horn vs Pac. Loma calls out other champions all the time. Murata mentions Golovkin. Just of top of my head.

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:
When do Arum's boys ever unify? They just like to hold the WBO title and thats it.. was is Donaire? Their last unfied champion?

Umm, Crawford just became the third guy to hold all four in history.

Yeh, I forgot about him lol.

Apart from him? It wasn't the hardest division to unify.. Not taking anything away from him..

It's not like champion vs champion is a regular thing in the sport from any promoter. 3 of the 5 fighters he named are in the wbss. Not to defend arum, but he's no worse than anyone else. He definitely wants to unify with lomachenko. I don't keep track of the belts closely but I know pac had a few.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote: Umm, Crawford just became the third guy to hold all four in history.

Yeh, I forgot about him lol.

Apart from him? It wasn't the hardest division to unify.. Not taking anything away from him..

It's not like champion vs champion is a regular thing in the sport from any promoter. 3 of the 5 fighters he named are in the wbss. Not to defend arum, but he's no worse than anyone else. He definitely wants to unify with lomachenko. I don't keep track of the belts closely but I know pac had a few.

Pac had only single title reigns from 2008 onwards..

You are right though, it's not always the case we see champ vs. champ

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:
Yeh, I forgot about him lol.

Apart from him? It wasn't the hardest division to unify.. Not taking anything away from him..

It's not like champion vs champion is a regular thing in the sport from any promoter. 3 of the 5 fighters he named are in the wbss. Not to defend arum, but he's no worse than anyone else. He definitely wants to unify with lomachenko. I don't keep track of the belts closely but I know pac had a few.

Pac had only single title reigns from 2008 onwards..

You are right though, it's not always the case we see champ vs. champ

Bradley unified. Donaire already mentioned. I'm sure we're forgetting some too.

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote: It's not like champion vs champion is a regular thing in the sport from any promoter. 3 of the 5 fighters he named are in the wbss. Not to defend arum, but he's no worse than anyone else. He definitely wants to unify with lomachenko. I don't keep track of the belts closely but I know pac had a few.

Pac had only single title reigns from 2008 onwards..

You are right though, it's not always the case we see champ vs. champ

Bradley unified. Donaire already mentioned. I'm sure we're forgetting some too.

Yeh, he's got a pretty big stable to be honest.

I like Zurdo Ramirez so if he's gonna be more active in the next year I'm down.