Boxing Challenge

The boxing challenge is built around one card this weekend as Top Rank and ESPN features a good ol' throwback to the 80's as Bob Arum and Don King work together in the main event as Jose Ramirez (Arum) fights Amir Imam (King) for the vacant WBC junior welterweight title.

The winner will be facing the talented "interim" WBC titleholder Regis Prograis, but first things first and Ramirez-Imam isn't a bad fight.
Ramirez is the A side of this one as an undefeated and exciting former Olympian but hasn't fought the best opposition with his best win being a knockout win over fellow prospect and equally untested Mike Reed.
Imam was looked at as a rising star after wins over fringe contenders Yordanis Ugas, Fidel Maldonado and Walter Castillo and was the mandatory contender for then-WBC champion Viktor Postol before being shockingly upset by Adrian Granados in what was a fight that was a stay-busy fight while waiting for Postol in 2015.
Inam has won his three fights since them, although none of them against even marginal contenders.

In the co-feature, Oleksandr Gvozdyk is expected to roll past unknown Mehdi Amar in a fight for the WBC's interim title at light heavyweight
Normally. I hate these belts, but WBC champ Adonis Stevenson has spent years fighting weaker opposition and his mandatory for the last two and a half years, stablemate Elieder Alvarez has not pushed for his title shot and accepted money to not fight Stevenson, while the champion fought non-entities.
Stevenson will be fighting Badou Jack in May and supposedly will be mandated to fight Gvozdyk next, although with the politics involved-I would take a bet that you never see that fight occur.

I lead Ramon Malpica in the boxing challenge 41-33.

Vacant WBC Junior Welterweight Title. 12 Rds
Jose Ramirez vs Amir Imam
R.L: Imam KO 3
TRS: Ramirez KO 6

Light Heavyweights. 12 Rds
Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs Mehdi Amar
R.L: Gvozdyk Unanimous Decision
TRS: Gvozdyk KO 4