This week’s panellists had been requested to foretell the end result of Saturday’s light-heavyweight battle between Dmitry Bivol and Gilberto Ramirez
Leigh Wooden (Featherweight contender)
I anticipate Dmitry Bivol’s boxing capacity and expertise will probably be a bit an excessive amount of for Gilberto Ramirez, who has had his finest wins as a super-middleweight. I feel that we are going to see a large factors win for Bivol.
Dave Allen (Heavyweight contender)
Nearly as good as I feel Ramirez is, and he is superb, I feel Bivol will win a factors determination. I don’t see anybody at both 168 (kilos) or 175 beating Bivol on his finest day.
Wayne Alexander (Former European super-welterweight champion)
I anticipate it to be an excellent battle and an important take a look at for each males, however extra so for Ramirez, who’s stepping up from super-middleweight after holding the WBO title for 3 years there. He’s now boxing possibly the most effective fighter within the light-heavyweight division; somebody who has held his title for 5 years. Gilberto might make it tough together with his southpaw fashion and punching energy, however Bivol, who was additionally a world class beginner, would have in all probability confronted this type of fighter earlier than. For this reason I decide Bivol to win on factors.
John Fewkes (Coach)
I’ll expect fireworks when it warms up. I feel Bivol is just too intelligent to be drawn straight right into a battle however an excessive amount of of a fighter to not in some unspecified time in the future. I’ve seen extra of Bivol than Ramirez to be sincere and suppose Bivol, an enormous, sturdy athlete, takes a factors determination
