Nowadays, a boxer accepting a battle after a three-month break between fights is uncommon. Jesus Ramos will probably be again within the ring simply 49 days after his eighth-round stoppage of Jeison Rosario.
“No accidents in my earlier battle, nothing to fret about, so I’m capable of step again within the ring,” Ramos, 22-1 (18 KOs), mentioned Tuesday through the digital press convention for the Sebastian Fundora-Chordale Booker card. Within the co-main occasion, Ramos will battle the 17-2-1 (12 KOs) Kevin Salgado.
Eager to compensate for an inactive 2024, through which Ramos’s solely outing was a ninth-round stoppage of Johan Gonzalez, Ramos informed his crew that he wished to battle extra incessantly this yr. “Once they offered me with this chance, I mentioned ‘yeah, that’s precisely what I wished.’”
Ramos later mentioned that he desires to battle three or 4 occasions this yr.
Seven weeks isn’t sufficient time for a typical camp, however Ramos isn’t nervous. “I believe the truth that this can be a brief one shouldn’t be actually going to have an effect on me a lot, as a result of I’m coming off an extended and in depth coaching camp. I often wish to do some pre-camp, possibly 4 to 5 weeks, simply to get acclimated and prepare, after which eight weeks of robust coaching.
“We don’t have that kind of time, however I really feel prefer it doesn’t matter. Like I mentioned, I simply fought a pair weeks in the past, so I’m nonetheless in nice form coming into this camp. And I really feel good. In among the trainings, I even take my foot off the gasoline as a result of we’ve nonetheless obtained a while, and also you don’t wish to peak too early. I believe we’re proper the place we’re alleged to be.”
Ramos isn’t solely trying to battle; he’s in search of knockouts. His lone loss got here to Erickson Lubin in 2023, and although the choice was deeply unpopular, observers additionally felt that Ramos didn’t press his benefit sufficient all through the battle.
“It’s extra of a chip on the shoulder kind of factor,” Ramos mentioned of the loss. “I’m trying extra for the knockouts. I perceive not each fighter’s gonna be knocked out, I’m conscious of that, however on my facet, I’m ensuring I attempt all the pieces to get the man out of there.
“I’m getting ready for each battle to get a knockout, to be aggressive sufficient to have the ability to get him out of there.” Ramos talked about that knocking out an opponent who has by no means been stopped earlier than is especially satisfying – and Salgado is one such opponent.
Requested whether or not he would problem the winner of Fundora-Booker, for which Fundora’s unified championship is on the road, straight after his battle, Ramos mentioned, “Doubtlessly, yeah. I don’t love to do a lot speaking, but it surely makes greater hype across the fights, and I believe it’s time that we do begin doing that. We’ll see what occurs on March twenty second.”Owen Lewis is a former intern at Defector media and writes and edits for BoxingScene. His beats are tennis, boxing, books, journey and the rest that satisfies his meager consideration span. He’s on Bluesky.
