By Miguel Maravilla
Fightnews.com® writer Miguel Maravilla caught up with former world champion, light heavyweight Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (42-0, 28 KOs) of Mazatlán, Mexico, as he takes on Cuba’s Yunieski “The Monster” Gonzalez (21-3, 17 KOs) in a WBA light heavyweight title eliminator this Saturday night from the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas live on DAZN. Here is what Zurdo had to say.
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I believe Zurdo Ramirez is the real elephant in the room. Canelo Alvarez has been setting goals to make history, fine for me, I see nothing wrong on this, but why go after Ilunga Makabu at Cruiserweight? Why not to try to make history by becoming undisputed at Lightheavyweight? As a titleless Benavidez is considered a major threat at 168, much bigger threat is Zurdo Ramirez at 175, and, along with him, the reigning champions in this division, especially Bivol and Beterbiev. Canelo is kind of fearless guy, but I think a logic reasoning is telling him to avoid this task. If he does attempt it, could be unbelievable.
Well in the end Zurdo is going to either remove himself or Bivol from the Canelo equation, Bivol will have to defend against the winner of the Sat. fight Without the WBA title Canelo has no interest in Bivol or Zurdo. It’s no guarantee he fights the winner but he definitely isn’t fighting the eventual loser.
Too much importance is given to these meaningless belts.
Come on, this guys record is more padded than an adolescents teen bra. 42-0 without one big name?? I could be 42-0 as well if I fought all my next door neighbors and cab drivers. Fight somebody with a pulse, protected bum
Neither Hart, Abraham, Barrera nor Vlasov are cab drivers as far as I know.
Overprotected? Maybe.
I would prefer to call it something else. Poor match-making being done by promoters.
I’m convinced Zurdo would be a top 10 p4p fighter today if given the chance.
Wasted years for Zurdo.
all gatekeepers and Abraham is 100 years old
Abraham was 36 when he faced Zurdo, the same age as Beterbiev, Wilder and Briedis have today.