![]() ![]() While it would be a sensational fight, Ramirez is a bigger draw than Prograis and he had no idea what the 35 percent would amount to in terms of his purse. After that, the offer was again extended to Ramirez to fight Prograis, with 65 percent of the proceeds going to Prograis' side and 35 percent to Ramirez. So Prograis wound up fighting Zepeda and won the WBC belt. Ramirez was offered the fight, but he was getting married and couldn't take it. That was a convoluted story: Taylor was ordered to defend his title against Jose Zepeda, but was getting married and pulled out. Ramirez has also had to deal with the backlash of a decision not to take 35 percent of the total to fight Regis Prograis for the WBC 140-pound title. Ramirez returns after a year's absence to fight Richard Commey while Estrada, the WBA minimumweight champion, fights WBC champion Tina Rupprecht in a unification bout. Jose Ramirez (L) and Seniesa Estrada appeared at an event at a Boys & Girls Club in Fresno, California, Wednesday. But when the people who were there for you and cheering you on after one fight abandon you after another, it messes with you." "It hurts to lose, of course, especially when you put so much of yourself into it. You have to do some digging, and some soul-searching, and find out who you are and remember what got me this far in the first place. ![]() But after the Taylor fight, I found that everything changes. People loved me after the (Maurice) Hooker fight. "The mental challenges athletes face a lot of times and have to find a way to deal with got me. "Trying to come back from that loss to Josh Taylor, it was different," Ramirez said. He fully expected to win that bout and it was hard to accept as he returned home, suffering the first defeat since the 2012 Olympics in London.īut losing to Taylor came as a shock: Many fans, though not many of his closest ones from California's Central Valley, abandoned him. All three judges had it six to six in rounds, but because Taylor scored two knockdowns, he won a unanimous decision by scores of 114-112 on all cards.Īnd that's when Ramirez learned a bitter lesson about the vagaries of boxing fans' loyalty. Olympian was a unified super lightweight champion, who made the short trip to Las Vegas on May 22, 2021, to fight Josh Taylor for the undisputed championship. He was, as he so often has, giving back to the poor community where he was born and raised and where he became a local hero as much for his kindness and caring spirit as for his estimable boxing skills.Īt his peak, the 2012 U.S. ![]()
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