Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya instructed the media immediately that he heard that heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is contemplating shifting again down in weight to face the winner of Saturday’s unification conflict between WBA cruiserweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (46-1, 30 KOs) and WBO Cruiserweight World Champion Chris Billam-Smith (20-1, 13 KOs).
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Ramirez vs. Billiam-Smith are headlining, stay on DAZN in a non-PPV occasion on Latino Night time from The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The data that De La Hoya instructed the media about unified heavyweight champion Usyk returning to cruiserweight to combat the winner of the Ramirez-Billiam-Smith combat has already been refuted by Usyk, who stated he gained’t be shifting again down and that he can be staying at heavyweight the rest of his profession.
When De La Hoya introduced throughout immediately’s press convention that Usyk can be preventing the winner, you possibly can see Billiam-Smith frowning on stage and the announcer Chris Mannix shaking his head as if to say, ‘That’s faux information from De La Hoya.
You’ll be able to perceive De La Hoya desirous to hype the Ramirez vs. Billiam-Smith combat by arising with the Usyk stuff, as a result of he’s obtained to do one thing to hype this combat. There’s been NO curiosity from followers within the U.S. in that Ramirez-Billiam-Smith combat or the co-feature between Jose Ramirez and Arnold Barboza Jr.
The one combat on the cardboard that followers are eager about is the William Zepeda vs. Tevin Farmer conflict. Aside from that, there’s some curiosity within the light-weight conflict between Oscar Duarte and Botirzhon Akhmedov.
“I heard via the grapevine {that a} particular world champion within the heavyweight division is contemplating shifting all the way down to cruiserweight and preventing the winner of Saturday’s combat,” stated promoter Oscar De La Hoya throughout Thursday’s remaining press convention for the Gilberto Ramirez vs. Chris Billiam-Smith card on DAZN.
“So, Oleksandr Usyk is contemplating coming down and preventing the winner of Saturday evening. That’s how particular this combat is.”
