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Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017, 15:20 Ahmed is ranked 98 by Boxrec

http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/579345

He won the WBO Africa title this year.. That's how he got ranked by the WBO.. #6 with WBO

This kind of makes DeGale's defence seem okay.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017, 15:25 It's been nearly 4 years.. Will Zurdo finally get a knockout win once again?

Tanzio wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017, 16:18 At least he stays busy and you don’t have to worry about him stinking out the joint.

DeGale v Ramirez makes sense after Ahmed and Truax (if they both do the expected).

jamamb wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017, 17:22

Tanzio wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017, 16:18 At least he stays busy and you don’t have to worry about him stinking out the joint.

DeGale v Ramirez makes sense after Ahmed and Truax (if they both do the expected).

ramirez can actually stink it up a lot. he usually goes the distance and doesnt put his foot on gas unless pressed.try sitting through him vs bursak, gevorg, or edwards. he also was content with just winnibg rounds against abraham with some jabs but never stepping it up. the hart fight was was much better than his usual fights because the opponent got to him a bit and made him fight.

never heard of habib and am nit expecting him to be up to much

Tanzio wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017, 16:18 At least he stays busy and you don’t have to worry about him stinking out the joint.

DeGale v Ramirez makes sense after Ahmed and Truax (if they both do the expected).

TheGingerBomber wrote: ↑04 Jan 2018, 10:05 Don't rate Ramirez at all, Callum Smith would beat him.

TheGingerBomber wrote: ↑04 Jan 2018, 10:05 Don't rate Ramirez at all, Callum Smith would beat him.

Naandrew wrote: ↑07 Jan 2018, 05:54

TheGingerBomber wrote: ↑04 Jan 2018, 10:05 Don't rate Ramirez at all, Callum Smith would beat him.

Strongly disagree with that.

Ramirez has a very high work rate which Joe Gallagher fighters struggle with. The typical Joe Gallagher game plan of do nothing for 6 rounds is completely redundant against Ramirez.

Can't see the fight ever happening as Smith will lose his 0 next year.

I'm just not sure what Top Rank can do for Ramirez,this fight is crap.

Enlightened-One wrote: ↑10 Jan 2018, 06:37 I can’t believe that ESPN has sanctioned the bouts listed on the fight card that Top Rank will be promoting on the 3rd February, 2018, as headline by Gilberto Ramirez, because it’s really damn poor.

According to others, Gilberto Ramirez is supposed to be an exceptional fighter and I’ll have to take their word for it.

Based on what little I’ve seen of him though, apart from being a southpaw, which is an awkward type of opponent for anyone to face, he is stylistically orthodox and a tad feather-fisted.

By the time he faces Habib Ahmed, it would have been more than 3½ years since he’s scored a legitimate KO using his power (rather than stopping his opponent due to their own sheer exhaustion).

I really don’t think that Gilberto Ramirez carries any real power at world-level and he hasn’t passed the proverbial “eyeball test” with me, but I guess time will tell…

Maybe I’ll eventually be proven wrong about him, because at this point in time he seems a little too ordinary to me and the lack of quality in his resume, coupled with the nature of his underwhelming performances inside the ring, doesn’t seem to warrant the amount of hype and praise that has been lavished upon him.

For instance, both ‘The Ring’ (their owner’s ties to HBO) and ESPN (their own TV network) rate Gilberto Ramirez as the top dog at 168lbs, but they have both had either a direct or indirect recent/current relationship with Top Rank, so perhaps their ratings have been skewed accordingly.

That said, I’m willing to bow down to anyone else that possesses superior knowledge about the pugilistic talents of Gilberto Ramirez, because I have only seen him fight a few times, so maybe I'm not really qualified to comment on this matter.