Golden Boy Promotions is reportedly gearing up for an absolute crapshoot on April twenty seventh, as Mike Coppinger experiences that Jose Ramirez vs Rances Barthelemy will headline a Fresno present on DAZN alongside Vergil Ortiz Jr vs Thomas Dulorme.
There was clearly one thing within the water the evening Ramirez (28-1, 18 KO) fell to Josh Taylor, as the previous has been simply as thorough in torching his profession as the previous. He’s fought simply twice within the almost three years since, defeating Jose Pedraza and Richard Commey whereas turning down each an eliminator with Liam Paro and title fights in opposition to Jose Zepeda, Regis Prograis, and Teofimo Lopez.
Barthelemy (30-2-1, 15 KO), now 38, edged out Omar Juarez final Could to rebound from a questionable stoppage loss in his uncharacteristically watchable 2022 firefight with Gary Antuanne Russell. He’s nonetheless received one thing left within the tank, however I can not fathom the concept of giving him a major occasion in 2024.
That mentioned, it’s nonetheless by far the higher matchup. Dulorme (26-6-1, 17 KO) is 1-3 in his final 4, has by no means fought above 147, and hasn’t seen any motion since beating 19-11 Abrahan Peralta in July 2022. Does anybody severely assume this may in any means put together Ortiz (20-0, 20 KO) for Israil Madrimov? You possibly can’t even say it’ll give him rounds when the final competent man to combat Dulorme put him down in 109 seconds.
Severely, what’s with fighters shifting up in weight after which persevering with to combat guys from their previous division? Zurdo Ramirez dragging up Joe Smith Jr, Ryan Garcia preventing Oscar Duarte, and many others. Simply absolute weenie conduct.
There ought to at the least be two semi-decent matchups that evening, with Coppinger reporting JoJo Diaz vs Oscar Duarte and Jake Donovan naming Marlen Esparza vs Gabriela Alaniz 2, however I’d say GBP must be ashamed of themselves if I believed Oscar De La Hoya understood the idea.
