-This could end up stealing the show on a huge boxing weekend. The styles of both of these undefeated fighters is all action, come forward aggression. Ramirez won the world title with a very impressive performance against Amir Imam and is wasting no time in jumping right back in to a tough fight. Orozco is a very strong aggressive fighter who also has some skills. What worries me about him is his inactivity. I believe he fought only once in 2016 and once in 2017 and now this is his first fight in 2018. I have also seen him get rocked by a left hook in a fight and although he came back and won he was in trouble for a minute. While I am going with Ramirez I can see this being a great fight for about 4 rounds until Ramirez takes over and stops Orozco.
Prediction- Ramirez TKO 7
HBO PPV Saturday Night
-Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez vs Moises Fuentes
This will be Gonzalez’s first fight back since losing back to back title fights last year. While I always considered him a very good fighter I never thought he was the pound for pound best fighter in the world. I honestly don’t know anyone who did other than Lampley and Kellerman and the people at HBO who just gave him that title. Regardless though he is a fun aggressive skilled fighter whose best days are behind him. This seems to be a safe fight for him though. Fuentes in his last fight was stopped at a weight lower than what they are fighting at Saturday night.
Prediction-Gonzalez TKO 4
-Jaime Munguia vs Brandon Cook
Munguia is one of the most exciting new champions in the sport. He won his world title with a total destruction of Saddam Ali and has since defended it against a solid fighter in Liam Smith. He is a very big junior middle who is very aggressive, has a great chin and can punch. Those are the positives. The negative is he is very hittable. Cook is a tough guy who has some solid wins against good competition and whose only loss was to an undefeated fighter by late stoppage. I expect a similar outcome. Cook will hit Munguia but not be able to hurt him and gradually get worn down.
Prediction- Munguia KO 8
-David Lemieux vs Spike O’ Sullivan
This is a very interesting matchup and should be a very good fight. Lemieux is one of the most aggressive biggest punchers in the sport. Flawed in many other areas including defense and boxing ability his power has brought him to the top levels of the sport. When he is on he looks great, when he is not he looks bad. I think he is closing in towards the end of his career. A lot of tough fights are beginning to take its toll and he also seems to struggle making 160 which may hurt and weaken him here. O’Sullivan has been on a roll and has some good KO wins himself recently. He also seems to have a good chin which you need to fight Lemieux. I think this could be the end of Lemieux in big fights at 160 and I expect him to come out firing and probably win the first couple rounds and maybe even hurt or drop O’sullivan. But O’Sullivan will get through it and begin to wear Lemieux down. By the middle rounds I expect Lemieux to really fade and maybe get stopped late.
Preciction-O’Sullivan TKO 9
-Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin
This is the big one and one of the best fights to be made in the sport. A rematch which was put on hold for a couple months due to Canelo’s failed drug test for PED’s. While Adelaide Byrd’s scorecard in the first fight was totally ridiculous in favor of Canelo I did not have an issue with a draw. I thought GGG won 7-5 in rounds so I thought it was close. At 36 GGG seems to be slowing down just a little and Canelo should be coming into his prime. There are a lot of things that GGG should do differently in the rematch, most notably invest in going to the body which he did none of in the first fight which was totally out of character. I believe the main reason for that was Canelo's movement and counterpunching ability.
Prediction- Canelo by Split Decision
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