After Canelo Alvarez was defeated by Russian Dmitry Bivol, the also Mexican, Gilberto Zurdo Ramirez, has not stopped insisting on a fight for the 175-pound championship, which is in the hands of the Russian.
The words of Gilberto Ramirez
“The world title again at 175 pounds to fight Dmitry Bivol is the fight I’m looking for. Now that Canelo is going to fight GGG, then he is free, I am the official challenger,” said Zurdo Ramirez in an interview for ESPN’s SportsCenter.
Despite the fact that there are still no official approaches between the teams of both boxers, and he even confessed that he has been asking for a fight against Bivol for a long time since before he beat Canelo.
“Of course, it’s the fight I want, it’s the fight I’ve been asking for a long time, I’ve been asking for almost two years to fight Dmitry Bivol,” said the Mexican.
Zurdo Ramirez asks for respect for his position
According to Zurdo Ramirez’s explanation, Canelo Team’s economic offer was better than the one Gilberto had. So the 30-year-old boxer had to wait.
“We already had the contract, we had verbally 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 Zurdo Ramirez.
And after Zurdo Ramirez saw the Canelo vs. Bivol fight, he confirmed what he thought at the beginning, that the Russian competitor would give battle to the Mexican, because from his experience in the 175 lbs. he noticed that the fight would be complicated for Saul Alvarez.
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