The fighter from Sinaloa assured that he will not stop insisting on the fight for the WBA championship at 175 pounds against Dmitry Bivol
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Zurdo Ramírez insisted on the fight against Bivol (Photo: Instagram/@zurdoramirez)
After Saúl Canelo Álvarez will make the third fight official against Gennady Golovkin, Gilberto Zurdo Ramírez reiterated his intention to face Dmitry Bivol for the WBA (World Boxing Association) light heavyweight championship.< /p>
With the path available to fight at 175 pounds, the boxer from Sonora explained in an interview with ESPN‘s Sports Center that he is the official contender for the belt< /b>, so his main objective will be to agree on the fight against Bivol to be crowned Mexican world champion.
“The world title again at 175 pounds by fighting Dmitry Bivol It’s the fight I’m looking for. Now that Canelo is going to fight GGG, then he is free, I am the official challenger”
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Saúl Álvarez interfered in the plans that Gilberto Ramírez already had with Bivol (Photo: USA TODAY/Joe Camporeale)
Although he did not reveal if there are official approaches at this time with the Bivol team, he did make it clear that he will do everything possible to be the third Mexican boxer to face the current Russian champion since he revealed that has been looking for combat for a long time, but without success. Even when asked if he could give Bivol a fight, he assured the following:
“Of course, it’s the fight I want, it’s the fight I’ve been asking for since a long time a long time, I have been asking for a fight with Dmitry Bivol for almost two years.”
Furthermore, the WBO (World Boxing Organization) middleweight champion explained how Saúl Álvarez interfered in the plans that Gilberto Ramírez already had with Bivol, as he assured that he had a verbal agreement and that he had even already signed the written contract, but Álvarez’s offer changed the landscape.
“It’s the fight I’ve been asking for a long time”, Zurdo Ramírez assured (Photo: Twitter/@camilo_zamora)
According to the explanation of the Lefty Ramírez, the economic offer from the Canelo Team was better than the one Gilberto had. So the 30-year-old boxer had to wait.
“We already had the contract,we verbally had an agreement, but when he signed the contract we sent it to people from Bivol and he didn’t want to sign it, because Canelo arrived and obviously offered more money with Dmitry Bivol”, shared the Zurdo Ramírez.
And it is that after the < i>Zurdo Ramírez saw the fight between Canelo vs Bivol, confirmed what he thought in a start, that the Russian competitor would give battle to the Guadalajara Well, from his experience at 175 pounds, he noticed that the fight would be complicated for Saúl Álvarez.
Bivol reportedly rejected Zurdo Ramírez for fighting Canelo (Photo: Joe Camporeale/USA TODAY Sports)
“I knew he was going to put up a good fight, Dmitry Bivol, and that he could tie the fight (with Canelo), it was going to be a controversial decision like the ones he has had, because he took them to the street, I was surprised.”
On the other hand, Gilberto stated that during the Guadalajara fight, he supported him from a distance: “I was going to Canelo, obviously, as a Mexican and as a boxing fan, I wanted him to win the Canelo”.
Although Canelo Álvarez assured that he would seek a rematch against Bivol, the Zurdo b> Ramírez raised his hand to claim his right as mandatory challenger. He will take advantage of the fight between Canelo vs. Golovkin to finalize it.
Faced with the possibility of achieving it, Zurdo affirmed that he could take the victory and snatch the invitation from the Russian (Photo: Instagram/@daznboxing)
Even, before the possibility of achieve it, the Lefty affirmed that he could take the victory and snatch the invitation from the Russian with a knockout:
“After of the fight they had, my fight with Bivol is mandatory […] And when that fight happens, I assure you that I am the only Mexican who can defeat him and, not only that, I think that after what we saw, I can knock him out ”, he finished.