This Friday night at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, California, lightweight hopeful Luis Ramos faces the well-worn David Rodela. At 19-0 (8), the young southpaw from Santa Ana is at the stage of his career where he will soon make the jump to see if he?s a legitimate prospect, then contender, or just merely suspect. However, unlike many other fledgling boxers, he doesn?t seem to be in too much of a hurry.
Ramos told Maxboxing, “I?m happy how I am right now. There?s no rush. I?ll take it one fight at a time.”
In Rodela, 15-4-3 (6), he is facing a rugged guy who?s fighting for his career.
“I know he?s a tough guy. He fights with a lot of heart,” said Ramos, “so I gotta go in there and put up a good show and put another loss on his book.”
Ramos gets past this fight and Golden Boy Promotions will start to place him in more significant bouts in 2012. Eric Gomez, the company?s matchmaker stated, “This might end up being maybe the last fight of the year for him and we?ll bring him back [next year] but this is probably one of the last developmental fights. I think he?ll be ready. He?ll be ready sometime early next year, some sort of step-up fight, kinda like what we?re doing with Sharif Bogere (who faces Francisco Contreras on October 7th), either if it?s ?ShoBox? or whatever it might be, ESPN, but yeah, he?s ready to go.”
Ramos? manager, ?Classy? Frank Espinoza, says, “I think this will certainly show us where he?s at during this particular time and I see bigger and better things coming up ahead because this will take him to a different plateau where now, we can start looking at ?ShoBox.? We can start looking at bigger venues where he can be exposed a little bit better on television and bigger networks.”
