Ramirez returns after a year's absence to fight Richard Commey while Estrada, the WBA minimumweight champion, fights WBC champion Tina Rupprecht in a unification bout. Jose Ramirez (L) and Seniesa Estrada appeared at an event at a Boys & Girls Club in Fresno, California, Wednesday. But when the people who were there for you and cheering you on after one fight abandon you after another, it messes with you." "It hurts to lose, of course, especially when you put so much of yourself into it. You have to do some digging, and some soul-searching, and find out who you are and remember what got me this far in the first place. But after the Taylor fight, I found that everything changes. People loved me after the (Maurice) Hooker fight. "The mental challenges athletes face a lot of times and have to find a way to deal with got me. "Trying to come back from that loss to Josh Taylor, it was different," Ramirez said. He fully expected to win that bout and it was hard to accept as he returned home, suffering the first defeat since the 2012 Olympics in London.īut losing to Taylor came as a shock: Many fans, though not many of his closest ones from California's Central Valley, abandoned him. All three judges had it six to six in rounds, but because Taylor scored two knockdowns, he won a unanimous decision by scores of 114-112 on all cards.Īnd that's when Ramirez learned a bitter lesson about the vagaries of boxing fans' loyalty. Olympian was a unified super lightweight champion, who made the short trip to Las Vegas on May 22, 2021, to fight Josh Taylor for the undisputed championship. He was, as he so often has, giving back to the poor community where he was born and raised and where he became a local hero as much for his kindness and caring spirit as for his estimable boxing skills.Īt his peak, the 2012 U.S. Jose Ramirez has long been one of boxing's good guys, and true enough, on Wednesday, just three days before he ends a one-year absence to return to the ring to face Richard Commey on Saturday on ESPN at the Save Mart Center, he made a public appearance at a local Boys & Girls Club in Fresno, California, along with WBA minimumweight champion Seniesa Estrada. (Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images) Former unified super lightweight champion Jose Ramirez returns to the ring on Saturday in Fresno, California, for the first time since a win over Jose Pedraza on March 4, 2022.
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