Ramirez pulls out of fight vs. Browne

The WBC has just received a communication from Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez management withdrawing from the WBC ordered fight against Marcus Browne for the interim light heavyweight title. Team Ramirez had asked for an extension to the free negotiations period only to back out at the last minute, consequently, the purse bid scheduled for tomorrow has now been canceled.

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  • That’s too bad That’s a pretty good fight and I’d take Ramirez to win it too. Maybe he got a better offer to fight Bivol.

  • Even the browne isn’t all that, I guess he was more of a fight than the record padded and highly protected Ramirez bargained for. Why anybody thought this guy was ready for the big time is beyond me. You can’t be that far along in your career with that many fights without having the fall at least one top fighter in either the divisions he’s competed in. Other than an injury, there’s no reason to have pulled out of this fight. He knew he’d have to fight Beterbiev if he won, and he knows that he has no chance in that fight.

  • I dont get it, but he did say a few weeks back he wants to move to Super Middle weight again for bigger fights.

    • What bigger fights? He doesn’t offer anything there. He has no belts at 168 so there goes that. He’s just posturing like the rest and I’m no longer mad at side attractions killing real prize fighters when prize fighters are only interested in building padded records.

  • What I see in here is that both fighters don’t have that much value market, furthermore the money on the table is scarce, despite being this fight for a title. Ramirez and his team are trying to get more money, but I doubt they will get a substantial increase, because unfortunately Ramirez is and has been a hard sale, thanks to Top Rank that forbide him from participating in the 168 World Boxing Superseries, where he could have a good exposure. If he is able to make 168, he can have better fights there, because a fight against Beterbiev is hard to be made, he is with Top Rank and Ramirez is almost in the same situation than Mikey Garcia. I dont mind a fight between Ramirez and Benavidez though.

    • Good win over Abraham, two over Jesse Hart, Vlasov. He has some good wins. He’s a lefty and will be tough for anyone from 68 to 75. Boxing is business and he may have something bigger on the table.

      • A washed up Abraham and a majority win over a mediocre Hart??? He needs to fight someone with a pulse.

    • I don’t know why but Mexicans always seem to have extremley padded records. Canelo was like 40-0 at 23yo before he fought mayweather (he fought some names like cintron, Mosley, Lopez but way past thier primes) and he looked like an amateur in that fight. Other famous Mexican fighters with padded records Julio Cesar Chávez jr, Jamie munguia etc Gilberto Ramirez is just following in their footsteps.

  • Once again shows Team Ramirez is not willing to take risks. Just waiting on Canelo sweepstakes. Too bad Canelo wont take that fight anyways.

  • Well….. he did soundly defeat Vlasov in the past… the same Vlasov that was scheduled to fight Joe Smith for the vacant WBO title….
    Maybe….. and this is a huge maybe for us “keyboard warriors” he is getting a better offer and/or option.

    Maybe, since he was the WBO champ at 168, he may be getting an offer to fight for that title in the near future…. and a fight between him and Joe Smith is much more attractive than Smith vs Vlasov….

    Think of it as a job hunt, where he had been offered the job at one company and then offered a job at a better company soon after.

    What would you do?

  • Very much doubt that Ramirez would “run” from the formidable Marcus Browne…. he’s fought Mexicans, Americans, Germans, Armanians, Russians, Ukrainians, Colombians, Venezuelans…. etc…. and was the first one to defeat Rogelio “Porky” Medina.

    So, him “running” from Browne sounds about as true as some of us “keyboard warriors” running from a bag of chips.

    I’m sure an update will be posted soon enough with the details of a better job offer.

  • Not sure what happened here, but I guess it is financially related and/or some internal camp issue(s).

    This is strange enough for a deeper search.

  • So….. article from other site (BLH) mentions that Ramirez may be set to challenge Bivol this summer for his LHW title….
    Of course, a busted hand, a cut, or a sprained ankle, would definitely derail that shot…..
    Seems Ramirez chose a direct title shot (for better $$$) than an interim title.

    Oh yes….. he’s choosing to fight Bivol.

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