Tall southpaw Shimizu aims at Ramirez’s WBO 126lb belt

By Joe Koizumi

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Photo: Boxing Beat

An elongated Japanese southpaw featherweight, 5’11” ex-Olympian Satoshi Shimizu (11-1, 10 KOs) participated in a public workout on Monday at Ohashi Gym in Yokohama, Japan. Shimizu, former bronze medalist in 2012 Olympic Games in London, will have an ambitious crack at the WBO 126-pound belt against Robeisy Ramirez of Cuba at the Ariake Arena, Tokyo, on Tuesday next week.

Shimizu, 37, said, “I’m preparing some strategies to cope with such a crafty champ as Ramirez, Olympic gold medalist twice in 2012 and 2016. I wish to be victorious and win the world belt from him.”

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  • Taller they are, the harder they fall and age is not on his side. Expect Ramirez to chop him down

    • Probably but they are in Japan and he does seem to have KO power.

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