The Riyadh Season may have one other large occasion this weekend at The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, dubbed Latino Evening, which is able to see Gilberto Ramirez unify his World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) cruiserweight belt with WBO champion Chris Billam-Smith.
The Mexican will make the primary protection of his cruiserweight crown and needs to seize a brand new championship alongside the best way, however he is aware of he should work arduous to get it.
The “Lefty” defeated Arsen Goulamirian final March 30 to win the black and gold crown and now he’ll journey to Arabia to place it on the road in a giant combat of reserved prognoses.
Billam-Smith has been champion since Could 2023 when he defeated Lawrence Okolie to take the WBO belt and has since made two defenses towards Mateusz Masternak and Richard Riakporhe.
All promotional actions for Latino Evening will happen this week, which is able to function fighters comparable to Oscar Duarte, William Zepeda, Oscar Collazo, amongst different Latin Individuals seeing motion.
Ramirez has a report of 46 wins, 1 loss and 30 knockouts, whereas Billam-Smith has 29 wins, 1 loss and 13 knockouts.