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Chris Billam-Smith weighs in with ‘shock issue’ menace for Gilberto Ramirez unification conflict
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Chris Billam-Smith weighs in with ‘shock issue’ menace for Gilberto Ramirez unification conflict

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Chris Billam-Smith and Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez each made weight for Saturday’s cruiserweight world championship unification.

Billam-Smith was 199.4lbs, with Ramirez scaling 199.6lbs.

They battle for the previous’s WBO title and the latter’s WBA belt on Saturday, dwell on Sky Sports activities.

Britain’s Billam-Smith strode onto the weigh in stage wanting cheerful. However turned a wide-eyed glare on Ramirez for his or her closing face-off. Ramirez smiled faintly, and turned away first.

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Chris Billam-Smith weighs in with ‘shock issue’ menace for Gilberto Ramirez unification conflict

WBO cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith listens to messages of help from his family members, forward of his unification bout with WBA champion Gilberto Ramirez

“Nobody in this division can live with my intensity,” Billam-Smith declared.

He vowed all he needed to do was “be me” and “tomorrow night we get to unify the cruiserweight division”.

Ramirez spoked calmly afterwards. “I feel great, I feel ready,” he stated. “It is time to take pleasure in Saturday evening.

“Confidence, preparation and that’s all.”

Billam-Smith has warned his rival champion that he shall be urgent for a knockout win.

“I believe I can take him out in the second half of the fight, I really do,” Billam-Smith advised Sky Sports activities.

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Shane McGuigan has urged his fighter Chris Billam-Smith to seize the moment as he looks to add the WBA cruiserweight world title to his collection when he takes on Gilberto Ramirez in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.

Shane McGuigan has urged his fighter Chris Billam-Smith to grab the second as he appears so as to add the WBA cruiserweight world title to his assortment when he takes on Gilberto Ramirez in Saudi Arabia on Saturday

“But we’ll see. Things can happen on fight night. Lots can happen in a boxing ring and in the moment. He might be more durable than we think. He is super durable but I do believe in my intensity.

“It is going to take rather a lot to eliminate him however I consider I can do it.”

Ramirez was slightly heavier than Billam-Smith at the weigh-in but over the course of his career the Mexican star has risen through several weight classes to become a two-division champion.

“He appeared in good condition,” Shane McGuigan, Billam-Smith’s coach, stated of Ramirez.

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Shane McGuigan has urged his fighter Chris Billam-Smith to seize the moment as he looks to add the WBA cruiserweight world title to his collection when he takes on Gilberto Ramirez in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.

Shane McGuigan has urged his fighter Chris Billam-Smith to grab the second as he appears so as to add the WBA cruiserweight world title to his assortment when he takes on Gilberto Ramirez in Saudi Arabia on Saturday

However McGuigan added: “[Billam-Smith] will be rehydrating and a big guy in there. I think he’s the bigger guy of the two. Obviously Zurdo started at super-middleweight in his career. But I don’t know how he ever made that limit. So he’s let his body swell up over the years.

“We’re not taking a look at small benefits at this stage, we’re wanting on the greater image and we have accomplished all the things in coaching camp and we’re able to go. I believe he is within the form of his life.

“Chris is the slightly older guy but out of the two of them he’s the fresher guy, he’s had less fights, he’s at his natural weight.”

He shares Billam-Smith’s confidence that the Briton can win by stoppage.

“I think it’s going to be a tricky fight early on but once Chris starts to get his momentum and starts picking the pace up – Zurdo’s last fight against [Arsen] Goulamirian, it was very one-paced.

“Goulamirian harm him just a few instances however by no means had that change of tempo and people gears. Whereas Chris is likely one of the fittest guys at 200lbs and he actually can ramp the tempo up and he actually can change that pace on individuals,” McGuigan told Sky Sports News.

“I believe that is perhaps a shock issue for Zurdo.”

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Chris Billam-Smith has warned Gilberto Ramirez not to underestimate him ahead of their clash this weekend for the WBA and WBO cruiserweight world titles.

Chris Billam-Smith has warned Gilberto Ramirez to not underestimate him forward of their conflict this weekend for the WBA and WBO cruiserweight world titles

Billam-Smith and Ramirez field in Riyadh, on what is perhaps thought of impartial territory. However McGuigan would not see it that method. The occasion is billed as ‘Latino Evening’ and is staged by Golden Boy, Ramirez’s promoter.

“We’re very confident,” McGuigan stated. “This is different, it’s away from home. We’re in a different environment with a different promotion. But they’ve treated us very, very well since we’ve been out here and we have all the facilities we need to get to the weight. The next thing in line is just to go out there and put on a good show.

However he added: “However we additionally know that we’re on an away present and despite the fact that there’s two champions, if it will get shut you by no means know the way the judges are going to be seeing it so we’ve to try this little bit further and I believe Chris shall be going on the market for the stoppage.

“We are going to go out there and have to make a statement. We can’t let this fight get close.”

Watch Chris Billam-Smith’s world title unification with Gilberto Ramirez on Saturday dwell on Sky Sports activities Combine from 5pm

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