Robeisy Ramirez vs Rafael Espinoza Dec. 9 ESPN

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This fight is why I never start over hyping these gold medal amateurs.

A 3 round tip tap game is extremely different to a 12 round fight. Plenty of good Cubans have found that out. So everyone needs to chill about the other gold medallist Cuban, that Andy Cruz cat.

However Top Rank swallowed the hype that's why they thought it'd be easy to work to put Robeisy in with an unknown, undefeated 6’1 fighter from Guadalajara with a 90% KO ratio who was not his mandatory ? Who does that ?

But great fight. Awesome for Espinoza.

A big shout out to the ref for not panicking and ending the fight after the first knock down.



Every UK ref (and I mean EVERY UK REF) out there would have sh*t themselves and stopped that fight if they saw this and many USA refs too. This ref needs to be elevated to bigger fights. Great job ref!

Espinoza did only 11 amateur foghts and won em all that's crazy considering Robeisy did what at least 200? (boxrec says 126-23 but they always miss more than a few) 200 is way to many amateur fights IMO. Floyd, Ray Leonard, Ali all had 50 or 60.

Robeisy is a good fighter, but now his aura is shattered and may never return. He essentially took a knee in that last round to get Ramirez off of him; you can't do that in the last minute of a close fight.

As I say what a fight and a contender for FOTY.