Gilberto Ramirez To Defend WBO Super Middleweight Title On June 30
Gilberto Ramirez's next super middleweight title defense is already in the works.
In a press release sent to Fightful, Ramirez will defend his WBO super middleweight title against undefeated Roamer Alexis Angulo. The card will take place at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, the home venue of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and headline a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on June 30.
Ramirez first won the WBO title in 2016 with a unanimous decision win over former world champion Arthur Abraham. His first title defense came on a Top Rank-produced pay-per-view where he defeated Max Bursak. His next two fights saw him defeat Jesse Hart and Habib Ahmed, the latter of which was the main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN back in February.
Angulo, an undefeated boxer from Colombia, is the current WBO Latino super middleweight champion. Angulo won the regional title last year when he stopped Rolando Wenceslao Mansilla in two rounds and his last fight saw him knock out Evert Bravo back in February. Angulo is ranked No. 10 in the WBO's official super middleweight rankings.
The press release also states that the co-main event bout of the Top Rank card will be a junior welterweight fight between undefeated Oklahoman boxer Alex Saucedo and Lenny Zappavigna. The fight was originally supposed to be on the undercard of the June 9 ESPN boxing card headlined by the WBO welterweight title fight between Jeff Horn and Terence Crawford.
