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Gilberto Ramirez vs. Dereck
Edwards
Headlines June 26 On TruTV
Undefeated Mexican knockout artist GILBERTO "Zurdo" RAMIREZ,
the No. 2 world-rated super middleweight contender with the
matinee idol looks, will headline an all-action card on
Friday, June 26, at State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, TX. Ramirez
will be taking on DERECK "The Black Lion" EDWARDS in a 10-
round super middleweight bout which will be televised live
on The MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV ® at 10:00
p.m. ET. The live boxing series is presented by truTV and
Top Rank®, and produced in association with HBO Sports®.
"My opponent Derek Edwards is a dangerous fighter with good
skills and lot of experience," said Ramirez. "I will be
ready for the best of him. I expect a war. We have been
having a great training camp and I will give the fans the
fight they want to see. I'm really motivated to be in the
ring in June 26. I'm very happy for this opportunity that
Top Rank is giving me, to appear on its new truTv boxing
series. This is the third time that I am fighting in Texas.
It feels like home to me because the fans always treat me
very well. I really like the people from Texas because there
are big boxing fans."
“Gilberto Ramirez is one of the top 168-pounders in the
world, but June 26 he’ll have to prove it," said Carl
Moretti, vice president of Top Rank. "Derek Edwards with his
KO win over current world champion Badou Jack is the test
that Gilberto needs to pass in order to gain his world title
opportunity. Not an easy task”
Ramirez (31-0, 24 KOs), a two-fisted super middleweight
wrecking machine who hails from Mazatlan, Mexico, is
world-rated No. 2 by the World Boxing Council (WBC) and the
World Boxing Organization (WBO), and No. 3 by the
International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the World Boxing
Association (WBA). A sensational young contender, Ramirez,
23, has won four of his last five bouts by knockout. Last
year featured career-best performances which included an
NABF-NABO title victory over Giovanni Lorenzo via
fifth-round stoppage, a WBO International title knockout
victory over Junior Talipeau and a successful defense of his
NABF and WBO International titles, stopping Fulgencio Zuniga
in the eighth round. He returns to the ring fresh from a
10-round unanimous decision victory over once-beaten Maxim
Vlasov on January 24. Ramirez will once again be putting his
titles on the line, this time against division gatekeeper
Edwards (27-4-1, 14 KOs), of Las Vegas, NV. Last year
Edwards scored a first-round knockout of previously
undefeated Badou Jack, who recently won the WBC super
middleweight world title. He finished the year losing a
12-round decision to once-beaten one-time world title
challenger Andre Dirrell.
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