A season of thrilling rematches begins on Sky Sports activities this weekend with the Rafael Espinoza vs Robeisy Ramirez and Emanuel Navarrete vs Oscar Valdez double-header.
Later this month Tyson Fury will struggle Oleksandr Usyk a second time for the unified world heavyweight championship.
Ramirez might be within the first of those world championship rematches when he containers Mexico’s Rafael Espinoza for the WBO featherweight world title the Cuban used to carry.
A 12 months in the past unheralded Espinoza upset Ramirez in among the best fights of 2023, and the Cuban believes it will likely be simply as intense a contest second time round.
“You can expect a war,” Ramirez advised Sky Sports activities. “Everyone knows how Mexican fighters are. They by no means hand over.
“The reality is it wasn’t the best version of me and I was still able to give a great show and so the second fight will be better.”
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Highlights of Rafael Espinoza’s gorgeous upset win over Robeisy Ramirez as he clinches the WBO Featherweight Title.
It will not be the primary time Ramirez has needed to regroup from a dangerous defeat. The 2-time Olympic gold medallist misplaced his skilled debut to Adan Gonzales, in an enormous upset, however had his revenge when he gained their rematch a 12 months later.
He needs to repeat that type this weekend.
“I try not to go in there with anger towards the fighter. I go in there focused on my job. I always characterise myself for getting up after falling down,” he mentioned. “I will be a champion again.
“I’ll return to the place the place I needs to be.”
In the first fight Ramirez dropped Espinoza in the fifth round, only to be knocked down himself in the last round as Espinoza took a majority decision.
“I recognise that he did come to win. However I did not see myself lose. Within the final spherical he did not land a punch that put me in a foul place. I went down, in case you see the replay, I went down from being drained,” Ramirez insisted.
“I did not see myself because the loser.”
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Robeisy Ramirez produced a surprising uppercut knockout on Brandon Benitez within the seventh spherical of their Featherweight struggle.
Victory would set him up for thrilling fights with different champions, like Nick Ball or Angelo Leo, in 2025.
“There’s no problem fighting any of them. That’s one of the things I’ve always had in my mind in my career and one of the things I need to do in my career,” he declared.
“Now I have to recover my title and I will be ready to unify against any of the champions who are there.”
Boxing developing on Sky Sports activities
December 8
Emanuel Navarrete vs Oscar Valdez II
Rafael Espinoza v Robeisy Ramirez II
December 14
Natasha Jonas vs Ivana Habazin
Lauren Worth vs Bexcy Mateus
Stephen McKenna vs Lee Cutler
December 15
Jaime Munguia vs Bruno Surace
December 21
Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury II (stay on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace)
Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury II might be stay on Sky Sports activities Field Workplace
December 24
Naoya Inoue vs Sam Goodman
January 11
Callum Simpson vs Steed Woodall
Caroline Dubois vs Jessica Camara
February 1
Adam Azim vs Sergey Lipinets
Rafael Espinoza vs Robeisy Ramirez might be stay on Sky Sports activities Fundamental Occasion and Sky Sports activities+ from 1.30am on Sunday
