Robeisy Ramirez Will Meet Isaac Dogboe In April

Seems like we’re getting an intriguing featherweight showdown for a world title, as Robeisy Ramirez will tangle with Isaac Dogboe in a High Rank Boxing principal occasion in April.

Our content material associate/insider Dan Rafael had more on his substack Friday,

“Two-time Cuban Olympic gold medalist Robeisy Ramirez (11-1, 7 KOs), a 29-year-old southpaw, and former junior featherweight titlist Isaac Dogboe (24-2, 15 KOs), 28, of Ghana, will meet in 12-round featherweight struggle that can headline the April 1 version of High Rank Boxing on ESPN+, sources advised Battle Freaks Unite.

The bout might be both for the vacant WBO interim featherweight title or the possibly vacant full title. It would rely on what occurs within the Feb. 3 High Rank on ESPN+ principal occasion between reigning WBO featherweight titlist Emanuel Navarrete and Liam Wilson, who meet for the vacant WBO junior light-weight title in Glendale, Arizona.

After the struggle, Navarrete should resolve whether or not to stay at 130 kilos or return to 126 to defend his title in that division.

If he stays at 130, as is anticipated, the Ramirez-Dogboe winner will declare the vacant featherweight title. If Navarrete makes an unlikely return to 126, the winner will declare the interim title and be mandated to face Navarrete.”

Watch our BetUS TV preview of the High Rank heavyweight principal occasion Saturday evening on ESPN between Efe Ajagba vs. Stephan Shaw right here,

As Dan wrote above, Navarrete, 36-1, 30 KOs, is slated to meet Liam Wilson in a few weeks in his personal High Rank occasion. The onerous hitting Mexican was to have fought former unified 130 lb. champ Oscar Valdez on February third. Nonetheless, Valdez withdrew attributable to damage.

So, the 2 division world champ Navarrete will as an alternative meet the Australian Wilson, who’s 11-1, 7 KOs, and ranked third by the WBO at junior light-weight. Navarette has constructed up fairly a KO resume’ in title fights over the previous three plus years. That features his sixth spherical body shot knockout of Eduardo Baez in San Diego final August, whereas defending his WBO featherweight crown.

Navarrete burst on the world title stage by upsetting Dogboe in a one-sided determination win in New York in December 2018 to seize the WBO jr. featherweight crown. He hammered Dogboe within the quick rematch with a struggle that shouldn’t have been allowed to see the 12 spherical earlier than it was stopped in Might of 2019.

Navarrete then scored 4 extra KOs in protection of that 122 lb. crown over the subsequent 12 months. Nonetheless, as Dan wrote, he’s unlikely to come back again all the way down to featherweight, and that opens the door for Ramirez or Dogboe to finally be world champ, in the event that they win in April.