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Mark Robinson / Matchroom Boxing
Gentle heavyweight contenders Gilberto Ramirez and Joe Smith Jr. are scheduled to fulfill in a pivotal combat for each males in Las Vegas.
GILBERTO RAMIREZ (44-1, 30 KOs)VS. JOE SMITH JR. (28-4, 22 KOs)
Date: Saturday, Oct. 7
Time: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT (principal occasion later in present)
The place: The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas
TV/Stream: DAZN
Division: Gentle heavyweight (175 kilos)
At stake: No main titles
Odds: NA
Pound-for-pound: None
Additionally on the cardboard: John Ramirez vs. Ronal Batista, junior bantamweights; Bektemir Melikuziev vs. Alantez Fox, tremendous middleweights
Prediction: Ramirez UD
Background: Ramirez and Smith will each be attempting to bounce again from damaging losses. Ramirez, a former 168-pound titleholder, received 5 consecutive fights after shifting as much as 175 however met his match in gifted champion Dmitry Bivol, who handed the 32-year-old Mexican his first skilled defeat by a one-sided unanimous resolution final November. Smith, a restricted technician with immense energy, received a light-weight heavyweight title by outpointing Jesse Hart in 2020 and efficiently defended 3 times. Then he ran right into a monster in Artur Beterbiev, who wanted lower than two full rounds to knock out Smith in a title-unification bout on June 18. Ramirez was scheduled to combat Gabriel Rosado in March however got here in 7.6 kilos chubby and the combat was canceled. The winner on Saturday will take a major step towards a shot at one other belt. The loser, notably if he loses badly, may very well be in for an uphill battle to stay a significant participant within the division.
