The WBO Championship Committee has ordered the camps of WBO jr welterweight champion Jose Ramirez and mandatory challenger Jack Catterall to negotiate and reach an agreement within twenty days. If an accord is not reached within that time frame, a purse bid will be ordered. The minimum acceptable bid is $150,000. Any of the parties involved may request a purse bid procedure at any time during the negotiation process.
The Committee had granted sanction approval of last Saturday’s WBC/WBO fight between Ramirez and Viktor Postol with the provision that the winner must face Catterall within 120 days after the bout.
Ramirez (26-0, 17 KOs) is promoted by Top Rank, Catterall (25-0, 13 KOs) is promoted by Queensberry Promotions.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I would think Catteral would be willing to wait to face the undisputed champion. Ramirez just handled the WBC mandatory. Josh Taylor can take of the IBF in his next fight against the Thai. The WBA doesn’t care about mandatories. They’ll fight and pay Jack to step aside or put him on the undercard and the winner will be obligated to take care of the WBO mandatory.
Ramirez beats that guy easy!!!!
To get within strong sniffing range at 147, it appears Ramirez must take two (2) steps backwards to move three (3) or more steps foward.
Meaning, unless some alternative set aside condition is made, Ramirez will need to go ahead and “whup” Caterall’s a*s followed by “whuppin” the HELL out of Taylor’s a*s.
Perhaps, dishing out two (2) sets of decisive a*s “whuppins” will allow Ramirez to get within strong sniffing range for testing the waters at 147.
This is why it’s so rare to see undisputed Champions. It’s so hard to round up all the titles while there is possibly 4 mandatories floating around. Ramirez just took a high profile fight so it’s hard to expect he has a mandatory sitting in front of him.