Jesus Ramos Jnr’s career may be looking up, but he’s setting his sights on moving back down the scale.
The southpaw from Casa Grande, Arizona scored perhaps the most significant win of his career so far on Saturday night, when stopping the former junior-middleweight champion Jeison Rosario in eight rounds at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Ramos swept the fight on all three scorecards prior to the stoppage in what was his first fight at middleweight.
Ramos has since suggested it could also be his last fight at 160lbs.
“I want to go back down to 154lbs and fight the best in the division,” said Ramos, whose record is now 22-1 (18 KOs) “There’s a lot of talent at super welterweight and we’re looking to make all the big fights.”
Rosario, 29 years old and who weighed 159¼lbs for the fight, has been fighting at 160 and above since his sixth-round knockout loss to Erickson Lubin in 2021, while Ramos, who fought as light as at 138lbs after turning professional as a teenager in Mexico, weighed, officially, 159lbs.
Ramos already has his foot in the door at junior middleweight, via rankings in the top 10 with all four major sanctioning bodies.
The 23 year old had one criticism of his performance, saying that, while he did put Rosario down with a two-punch combination in the round before the stoppage, he wanted to end the fight with Rosario on his back.
“I was hoping to get the knockout instead of a TKO, but this works for me too,” he said. “I’m just glad we were able to both come out of the ring healthy.
“Attacking the body was an important strategy. I wanted to break him down. He’s a big guy, so I wanted to take my time in there.”
Rosario, 24-5-2 (18 KOs), has managed just one win in his past four fights – a fifth-round knockout loss to Brian Mendoza and a draw with Jarrett Hurd complemented a second-round stoppage win over the unheralded Israel Valerio.
Ramos has won two straight fights since his lone defeat, via unanimous decision against Lubin in September 2023.
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