In the early morning of January 14, 2024, Beijing time, the WBA officially notified the current WBA super ropeweight world boxing champion Jinggang Yixiang, requiring him to defend the world boxing championship against John Ramirez, currently ranked number one in the WBA system. war.
It is reported that the two parties entered a 30-day negotiation period last Friday. If the two parties do not reach an agreement within 30 days, the two parties will need to conduct a deposit bidding hearing at the WBA headquarters.
WBA Athletic Committee Chairman Carlos Chavez wrote in the notice sent to both teams of Jinggang Yixiang and John Ramirez: "Please consider this notice as a notice of mandatory negotiations for the WBA super flyweight class. Due to Jinggang Yixiang won the world boxing title on June 24, 2023. The defense of the free world boxing title has been overdue, so he needs to fight against John Ramirez, the official mandatory challenger in the level. "
" Pursuant to WBA Rules C.13 - Contest Restrictions, the World Boxing Champion shall not fight an unofficial challenger for 60 days after the end of the mandatory defense period. Based on the above facts, we hereby order that the period beginning on January 12, 2024 will end on February 2, 2024 By the end of March 12th, Jinggang Yixiang and John Ramirez must enter into mandatory negotiations."
Jinggang Yixiang's current event promotion activities are handled by two event promotion companies, sisei promotins and tlarock entertainment, who manage Jinggang Yixiang respectively. compete in domestic and foreign competitions. John Ramirez's event promoter is the famous Golden Boy Promotions boxing promotion company, and the event promoter is former world boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya.
The 34-year-old Jinggang Yixiang currently has a professional record of 31 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw, and has defeated opponents 16 times. He has won the world boxing title at four levels. On December 31 last year, in a world boxing title defense match held at the Ota-ku General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, in the "Big Day" series of events, Ichigo Kazuo knocked down Venezuelan boxer Josber Perez three times. And in the final seventh round of the game, he defeated his opponent by KO and won the game.
Originally, Jinggang Yixiang planned to challenge the current WBC super rope heavyweight world boxing champion Juan Francisco Estrada during his free defense period for a world boxing title unification fight, but because the two sides have not yet An agreement was reached on the division of profits, leading to the eventual collapse of negotiations.
challenger John Ramirez is currently training and living in Los Angeles, USA. His professional record is 13 wins, 0 losses and 9 KO opponents. On October 21 last year, he defeated former world boxing title challenger Ronald Batista in the fourth round in Inglewood, California, and became a mandatory challenger. If he and Jinggang Yixiang reach an agreement, then he will have the first world boxing title fight in his career.
Outsiders predict that if Jinggang Yixiang and John Ramirez successfully carry out this mandatory title defense match, then he will take away 75% of the total proceeds of the game, while the mandatory challenger John Ramirez can take away the total proceeds 25%.
