La Semana

GILBERTO 'ZURDO' RAMIREZ makes history by becoming the rst Mexican boxing Cruiserwei­ght Champion

- Por FERNANDO SALAZAR

The Mexican boxer defeated Arsen Goulamiria­n by unanimous decision to win the title of the World Boxing Associatio­n.

Mexican boxing made history because the Cruise division :nally has a Mexican champion after Gilberto Ramírez won the title of the World Boxing Associatio­n after winning by unanimous decision against Arsen Goulamiria­n in the stellar :ght that took place at the Youtube Theater in Inglewood, California.

And it is that Goulamiria­n exerted pressure on the Mexican from the second round; however, the Mexican connected the best blows from the :rst, together, to that he moved all over the ring so as not to be a :xed target of the Frenchman, who dropped bombs on the Mexican which did not manage to have an effect.

Although the :ght was forged at a distance, the Frenchman changed his strategy to the short :eld where there was an exchange of blows, up and down, but the straights that the Mexican released to his face kept his rival away as a form of strategy because he knew that some bomb from his opponent could be fatal.

The 'Zurdo' Ramírez connected uppers, moved his hip to command the left-handers with more power; however, Goulamiria­n was still standing like a mountain, nothing moved him, that is why, together with his coach, they gave a seventh round that was the best of the whole :ght for the Frenchman since he connected the Mexican on several occasions in the face, but did not manage to diminish his rival.

Arsen knew that he was losing the :ght on the cards, so he had to look for the knockout in any possible way; however, he did not manage to make the rival visit the canvas because the 'Zurdo' proved to have a good defense throughout the :ght in order to force the born in Armenia to go to the decision on the cards where the judges gave the triumph in an irrevonabl­e way to the Mexican with a unanimous 118-110.

Gilberto Ramírez is already a historic Mexican boxer because he had already been the :rst Mexican Supermediu­m champion and, now, he already did it in the 200 pounds, a division in which no Mexican had been able to get a belt in the entire history of boxing.

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