The Sinaloan Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramírez, brand-new Super Middleweight Champion of the World Boxing Organization, already has a rival for next July 23 in the person of the German Dominik Britsch, and for that same day they are tentatively seeking to specify the return of the Sonoran Óscar Valdez for the vacant Feather scepter of the World Boxing Organization.
In a report by ESPN’s Dan Rafael, this afternoon the confirmation of the clash between the world super lightweight champions, Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol, of the World Boxing Organization and World Boxing Council, for that same day in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, at an HBO pay-per-view event.
Crawford (28-0, 20 Ko’s) and Postol (28-0, 12 Ko’s) will hold the stellar duel of the evening. Co-stars will be Ramírez (34-0, 24 KO’s) and Britsch (32-2-1, 11 KO’s). And it is expected to finalize the title fight for Valdez (19-0, 17 Ko’s) and the participation of Japanese Ryota Murata (9-0, 6 Ko’s) to complete the televised card.
Brithsch will arrive as a challenger to the historic first Mexican champion at 168 pounds with a streak of four victories, two of them via chloroform. His last loss was in 2014 via points to Soufiene Ouerghi. He has been an IBF Intercontinental Champion and a German Middleweight Champion.
For the Valdez fight, according to his manager Frank Espinoza, his return has not yet been finalized but he waits in a couple of days to confirm it, as long as Oscar and his father, Óscar Sr., approve it to be able to look for the title fight which has always been the dream of the Mexican and he proved to be ready after knocking out former world champion Evgeny Gradovich on April 9.
According to Dan Rafael’s report, the promoter Bob Arum expects some 75 thousand purchases in the payment per event, which will cost 50 dollars, with which they will come out well off in the economic field. Currently, the pay-per-view numbers have not been that good, except for the Canelo and Cotto fight, which was around 900 thousand houses, since those of Mayweather and Andre Berto, and that of Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley, did not exceed 450 thousand houses. . (Courtesy of espn.com.ve).
Zurdo Ramírez will expose his title against German Dominik Britsch
