Two-time Olympic gold medalist Robeisy “El Tren” Ramirez, the southpaw fighting pride of Cienfuegos, Cuba, is on the precipice of a featherweight title shot. In order to earn that opportunity, Ramirez (10-1, 6 KOs) will have to take care of business against former world champion Jessie Magdaleno (29-1, 18 KOs) in a 10-rounder Saturday, Oct. 29 at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Ramirez-Magdaleno is the co-feature to the Vasiliy Lomachenko-Jamaine Ortiz main event, streaming live and exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+.
Might be a better fight than the main event
I remember Magdaleno had won an eliminator to fight Navarrete but passed on the title shot because the money was low. He’s been pretty stagnant sinc then, one fight in the last two years, hopefully he goes all in on this one and makes the most of it.
Lucy did you see what Navarrete did to the only guy that has beat Magdaleno??? Navarrete would have destroyed Magdaleno easy!
Yeah, I know, he beat Dogboe twice and stopped him the second time. But you’ve got to think a former world champion and a competitor like that would have wanted that type of a challenge. Guy stops you, you go and beat the guy who beat him.
All fighters to defeat Donaire are nowhere except Naoya Inoue…
Donaire is from a different generation. Those guys did advance in their careers and got old now. Inoue beat him just recently so it makes sense. Goes to show you the favor if you can beat a 40 yo and they put you #2 on P4P list. And thats the only opponent of note on his record. He needs to take on “cool boy” Steph or Akhmadaliev to rightfully be on the P4P list
I heard Magdaleno got hurt and pulled out.