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Jose Ramirez, Vergil Ortiz Set for April 27 Returns

Former unified 140-pound champion Jose Ramirez will make his Golden Boy Promotions debut in a homecoming fight in Fresno April 27, and he’s bringing unbeaten Vergil Ortiz Jr. with him, two officials confirmed to Boxing Scene.

Central California’s Ramirez (28-1, 18 KOs) has long enjoyed a robust business drawing fight fans to Fresno’s Save Mart Arena and as he sets his sights on recapturing a belt in the division, he is mulling two ranked foes.

According to an individual connected to the discussions but not authorized to speak publicly on the matter because financial negotiations are pending, Ramirez is considering a date against either former IBF super-lightweight champion Sergey Lipinets (17-3-1, 13 KOs) or former IBF lightweight champion Rances Barthelemy (30-2-1, 15 KOs).

Kazakhstan’s Lipinets lost his belt in a 2018 bout against Mikey Garcia, the brother of Ramirez’s trainer, Robert Garcia.

Cuba’s Barthelemy, 38, has twice fought for a 140-pound belt, losing by unanimous decision to Kiryl Relikh in 2018 and then battling Robert Easter to a split draw one year later.

A 2012 U.S. Olympian, Ramirez, 31, hasn’t fought since his March 25, 2023, 11th-round knockout of former 140–pound champion Richard Commey in Fresno.

Ramirez later left promoter Top Rank to join Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions in January.

The Fresno card gives Golden Boy a powerful spring line-up that includes 140-pound title challenger Ryan Garcia meeting unbeaten champion Devin Haney at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center April 20 and Golden Boy’s unbeaten Jaime Munguia challenging undisputed super-middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez May 4 in Las Vegas.

Ortiz (20-0, 20 KOs) is another jewel of the De La Hoya stable as he returns from his first-round knockout of Fredrick Lawson on Jan. 6.

Returning from the blood disorder rhabdomyolysis and the inactivity of just one bout in 29 months before that night, Ortiz weighed in two pounds over the junior-middleweight limit.

The 25-year-old Texan nevertheless is ranked No. 6 by the WBO and WBC among junior-middleweights, and is expected to improve the quality of his competition following his work against the April 27 opponent, who has yet to be finalized.

DAZN will stream the April 27 card.

Jose Ramirez will fight Rances Barthelemy on April 27

eh

Fight Week!!

next week!! not this week!

Fight Week!!

Rancid Barthelemy headlining and Vergil put in with Dulorme, horrific

Fight Night!!

Date: Saturday April 27, 2024
Location: Save Mart Center - Fresno, CA
TV/Stream: DAZN

Start Times
Youtube: 6 pm ET | 3 pm PT | 11 pm GMT (Preliminary Card)
DAZN: 8 pm ET | 5 pm PT | 1 am BST (Main Card)

Promoted by: Golden Boy Promotions

Main Card

12 Round Super Lightweight Bout
Jose Ramirez vs. Rances Barthelemy

10 Round Super Welterweight Bout
Vergil Ortiz Jr. vs. Thomas Dulorme

10 Round Lightweight Bout
Oscar Duarte vs. Joseph Diaz

Unified WBA, WBC & WBO Flyweight Championship
Marlen Esparza vs. Gabriela Celeste Alaniz

NABF Welterweight Championship
Raul Curiel vs. Jorge Marron Jr.

Preliminary Card

6 Round Lightweight Bout
Bryan Lua vs. Ronaldo Solis,

4 Round Super Flyweight Bout
Figo Ramirez Gonzalez vs. Alejandro Robles

4 Round Welterweight Bout
Jennah Creason vs. TBA

Anyone watching ?
R1 blowout for Curiel already.

Feels like Mannix's rubbish score card is setting us up for a robbery....

the scores in women's boxing are as bad as the men's , been some crazy bad cards in these women's fights on dazn and espn, with stuff like 100-90 for fights that were virtually 50-50. although im not watching this pillow fight tbf so cant comment on that partiicular score

The tall skinny one has won 9-1 if you like her style, 6-4 if you don't
Mannix had it for the fat one....

And one judge scores it for the fat one 98-92 !?

Just bent, luckily the other two squeaked the rightful winner home.

who cares if someone is more accurate when theyre way outlanded?

assuming same quality of punches

2 landed out of 10 > 1 landed out of 1

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑27 Apr 2024, 21:02 the scores in women's boxing are as bad as the men's , been some crazy bad cards in these women's fights on dazn and espn, with stuff like 100-90 for fights that were virtually 50-50. although im not watching this pillow fight tbf so cant comment on that partiicular score

I have watched 2 women's fights ever, this being 1 of them (the other being some other random fight). Dull slap-a-thon and I thought the slimmer one won, but it was hard work watching it.

If I am honest, it reminded me of why I don't watch any womens boxing.

Anyways, moving on....

ya they are mood killers for me, waay too many locked on distance fights

oscar duarte absolutely massive, hulking upper body for 135/140. he gotta be on the mexican beef diet

Duarte looks waaay bigger and stronger, JoJo with the better skills.

HOpefully Duarte can retire JoJo - if he gets a win here he'll never go away...

ya i havent been interested in a jo jo diaz fight in a while, kinda getting stale and overused now

Meh.
They're 1-1 and both fights were like this, no need for a rubber match.
Move on ladies.

Duarte walking him down - doesn't seem to care about being outboxed - so much bigger.