By Miguel Maravilla

WBC super lightweight champion Jose Ramirez (22-0, 16 KOs) of Avenal, California and San Diego’s Antonio Orozco (27-0, 17 KOs) spoke to media Thursday afternoon at the Wolfgang Puck at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles about their upcoming bout taking place next week. Ramirez and Orozco square off next Friday September 14 at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California live on ESPN.

Here is what the fighters accompanied by their team had to say

Jose Ramirez: “This is a great fight we are both undefeated and hungry. It’s a get honor to be back fighting in Fresno. This has been the longest camp in my career. We are more than ready to take on Antonio. It will be a fight to tune into. We have styles to make this an exciting fight and may he best man win.”

Bob Arum: “This will be a great, great fight. It should be a tremendous bout between Jose Ramirez and Antonio Orozco. This is a great night of boxing the night before leading to the major Canelo Golovkin fight. Boxing is back. This sport is beginning to boom!”

Antonio Orozco: “This is a great opportunity for me. This is an opportunity I won’t let go. I have been waiting for this opportunity my entire career. This is a great moment. Jose is a tremendous fighter. This is a fight that has the potential to be good and that’s what we look forward to.”

Eric Gomez: “We will put together a good fight. We put Lomachenko and Linares together and that was a fight of the year. This fight can very well steal it. These are two young undefeated fighters.”

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