Julián Christopher "El Camarón (The Shrimp)" Ramírez

Where did this southpaw featherweight prospect - and great-nephew of late Mexican boxing legend Genaro "Chicanito" Hernández - go?

He lost to Abraham 'Chamaco' López nineteen months ago in the co-feature to Orlando Salido vs. Francisco Vargas on HBO, by UD10. Before that he was 16-0 with a gradient curve of improvement each time out, progressing into a very nice boxer (and having turned pro with a built-in skill-set refined in a reasonably decent amateur career, going 73-5 and nabbing gold in both the Junior Olympics and Mexican Games in 2011) - a work in progress no doubt, but with a foundation built on some tight fundamentals, and his ratio of work-rate to stamina in particular for his relative inexperience was admirable. In fact, the HBO team disagreed with the official judges and unanimously saw him defeating López despite sustaining a bad cut from a headbutt around halfway in. Alas.

Golden Boy Promotions had slated a return to action for him a few months after the loss to López, on September 30th as the co-headliner splitting an Estrella TV bill with GBP stablemate and fellow 126lber Andrew Cancio, but the entire show was scuppered for some reason. Both young featherweights suffered - with Cancio bumped up a couple of weeks and cannibalized by his own people, fed to JoJo Diaz on the Canelo vs. Liam Smith undercard on September 17th, while the company has since never bothered to reactivate The Shrimp.

Any tidbits of information on his gym activity or fight negotiations on his behalf in the last 1½ years are nearly impossible to find on social media or elsewhere online. Did he get fed up with the sport and retire? Who knows!!

 

I mean he was in training for a comeback as of September of that year, but yeah, maybe between the robbery and then his next card falling through for whatever reason, he got impatient & disillusioned and just walked away.

 

Great point, actually - Gómez disappeared around the same time except with his zero intact and coming off the biggest W of his career so far...