GILBERTO RAMIREZ / GEVORG KHATCHIKIAN, SAUL RODRIGUEZ / IVAN NAJERA
truTV LAS VEGAS MEDIA WORKOUTS
This Wednesday!November 18 at 10 A.M. PT
Top Rank Gym
LAS VEGAS, NV (November 16, 2015) —Undefeated Mexican knockout artist and No. 1 world-rated super middleweight contender with the matinee idol looks, GILBERTO “Zurdo” RAMIREZ, his opponent, once-beaten GEVORG KHATCHIKIAN, of the Netherlands, unbeaten lightweight contender SAÚL “Kid Dynamite” RODRÍGUEZ,of Riverside, Calif., and his opponent IVAN “Bam Bam” NAJERA, of San Antonio, TX., will host a Las Vegas Media Workout This Wednesday! November 18, at the Top Rank Gym (3041 Business Lane, Las Vegas, NV., 89103), beginning at 10:00 a.m. PT.
The four young warriors, who boast a near-perfect combined record of 88-2 (55 KOs), will headline the Friday, November 20 edition of MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV, which will be televised live from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. The live boxing series is presented by truTV and Top Rank® and produced in association with HBO Sports®. Find truTV at: http://trutvishere.com/.
Ramirez (32-0, 24 KOs), a two-fisted super middleweight wrecking machine who hails from Mazatlan, Mexico, who trains in Carson, Calif., will risk his mandatory challenger position for the WBO super middleweight world title when he defends his WBO International and NABF super middleweight titles against Khatchian (22-1, 10 KOs), 27, from Heerlen, Netherlands. Rodriguez (18-0-1, 13 KOs), who has gone the distance just twice in his last 10 fights, will face his toughest test in Najera (16-1, 8 KOs), who went the distance in his last fight, which was also his HBO debut, against undefeated Puerto Rican sensation Felix Verdejo, losing a spirited 10-round decision.
Promoted by Top Rank and Zapari Boxing Promotions, remaining ticketsto the Ramirez-Khatchikian championship boxing event, priced at $100, $85, $75, $50 and $40, are available for purchase at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com or through Ticketmaster at (800) 745-3000 and www.ticketmaster.com.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
