ESPN: Gilberto Ramírez vs. Habib Ahmed & Jerwin Ancajas vs. Israel Gonzalez RBR.

ahmed any good?

 

So once Zurdo gets up near that 40-0 undefeated sweet spot, with soft padding like tonights pudding cup, are the "fans" and casuals going to start getting aboard the hype train, or is Ramirez just one of those fighgers perpetually stuck in his own kind of "production hell", never achieving any real degree of hype?

 

Ramirez and Ancajas should get the job done.

 

He had to completely strip down at the weigh in, His 168 days are over.
But he already sparred with Bivol and knows what's coming

 

I am just here to express my disgust at this matchup.

Matching a world champion against a guy who is 7 inches shorter, thats never fought outside of Ghana, that has only fought fringe level African fighters at best.

Appalling matchmaking

 

That's true. I can't remember the last time he stamped any kind of authority on a performance. Maybe he's more or less hit his peak performance wise and at this point it's a question of using his wits and skills to navigate his matches rather than any other set of attributes. I can get behind that I suppose, not every Mexican needs to be a left hook artist who blocks punches with their faces.

 

Saw that Jose Benavidez is on this card, anyone know why he's been out of the ring something like a year and a half, bouncing around weight classes?

 

Ah, that'll do it.

He was pretty inconsistent before the bullet to the hand. Will be interesting to see how he comes back.

What are your personal thoughts on Ancajas? Lower weight monster or just someone decent blitzing through a weak field of opposition?