{"id":4433,"date":"2024-09-11T01:59:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T01:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/britains-chris-billam-smith-to-face-gilberto-ramirez-in-unification-bout\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T01:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T01:59:42","slug":"britains-chris-billam-smith-to-face-gilberto-ramirez-in-unification-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/britains-chris-billam-smith-to-face-gilberto-ramirez-in-unification-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s Chris Billam-Smith to face Gilberto Ramirez in unification bout"},"content":{"rendered":"


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WBO cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith will take on WBA champion Gilberto Ramirez in a unification bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 16 November.<\/b><\/p>\n

It will be Billam-Smith’s third defence of his title, the 34-year-old Briton having forced a stoppage against Mateusz Masternak<\/a> in December followed by a points victory over Richard Riakporhe<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

Ramirez became the first Mexican to win a cruiserweight title when he defeated Arsen Goulamirian for the WBA belt in March.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old, who previously held the WBO super-middleweight title between 2016 and 2019, has a 46-1 record with 30 knockouts.<\/p>\n

‘The Gentleman’, as Billam-Smith is nicknamed, won the WBO title when he defeated Lawrence Okolie<\/a> at Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium in May 2023.<\/p>\n

His victory against previously undefeated Riakporhe at Selhurst Park, London, avenged the only loss of his 21-fight career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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WBO cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith will take on WBA champion Gilberto Ramirez in a unification bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 16 November. It will be Billam-Smith’s third defence of his title, the 34-year-old Briton having forced a stoppage against Mateusz Masternak in December followed by a points victory over Richard Riakporhe in June. Ramirez […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4435,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}