18 November 2024

Cruiserweight Gilberto Ramirez is now the #1-ranked contender under Division King Jai Opetaia after defeating heretofore #1 contender Chris Billam-Smith (now #3). Noel Mikaelyan exits -once again- for inactivity. Robin Sirwan had a handful more votes than Arsen Goulamirian to round out the top ten.

At Welterweight, Jin Sasaki is bumped out as Abel Ramos debuts in the Transnational Rankings at #5 with a draw against #2-ranked Mario Barrios. Ramos was born, as history would have it, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and history buffs know how many tough ghosts are swarming on that hallowed ground. Barrios-Ramos (I?) paid something of a small tribute to the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. 

At Jr. Welterweight, Arnold Barboza Jr., bumped out last June, defeats Jose Ramirez in an unexciting fight to take #3. Ramirez slips from #4 to #7. Jose Valenzuela is bumped out.

Big news at Strawweight, where #4-ranked Oscar Collazo shocks undefeated #1 contender Knockout CP Freshmart with a seventh round TKO to take his #1 ranking. Freshmart, who debuted at #7 way back in October 2014, is now #4.

Officially speaking, Mike Tyson’s 7^th professional loss occurred nearly twenty years after his 6^th professional loss and last fight. That loss …against a youtuber… now appears on the record of the man who cleaned-out the heavyweight division in the 1980s much like Sonny Liston did in the late 1950s-early 1960s. A loss to a  youtuber? I’m rolling my eyes just writing that and I bet you did too after you read it. It’s no way for a great fighter (and yes, Teddy Atlas –Tyson was a great fighter) to end a career that already ended long ago; it’s worse than kicking a dead horse –it’s like digging up a decomposed horse just to kick the bones.

But then again…. he got $20 million. It brings to mind a Divine Sounds song from 1984, back when Tyson was 18 and in the Catskills. Remember “What People Do for Money” …? 

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