The ESPN card also includes an International Boxing Federation light-heavyweight title fight between Russia’s Artur Beterbiev (11-0, 11 KOs) and Germany’s Enrico Kolling (23-1, six KOs) for the belt left vacant by retired Andre Ward and Southland-trained super-lightweight Alex Saucedo (25-0, 15 KOs) meets Argentina’s Gustavo Vittori (20-2-1, 11 KOs) on the undercard. “Those aren’t easy jobs, and it takes more than the need for money to get those jobs done.” ![]() “Every time I go to the grocery store and see all those tomatoes, the bell peppers, the avocados, the limes, the almonds, the pistachios, I know every single one of those crops were picked by people like us here in Central California,” Ramirez said. “If all of a sudden it stops raining like it did a few years ago, we’re back in the same position.” “We don’t have any water storage resources or infrastructure to manage the water properly, so we don’t have any security for the next few years to come,” Ramirez said. He’s in a group pressing the California State Water Resources Control Board to approve construction of a second dam/reservoir beyond the one north of Fresno with already approved bond money. We’re all one.”Īfter his work experience of rising early to hand pick the peppers, Ramirez realized his local celebrity empowered his voice to help the farmers and workers as they struggled through a drought that only eased this past year. From the biggest farmers and business owners in Central California to the most basic employee in the middle of the field, I give them the equal amount of time. As a kid, I never felt someone was superior to me, and never have I felt superior to others. “They respect what I do, and they see that I appreciate and respect them in a very equal way. “We come from a family oriented community. “A lot of people - especially young men - around here can relate to my life,” said Ramirez, 25. ![]() Ramirez’s promoters admit the Avenal, Calif., product is a work in progress inside the ring, but the nerve he’s struck by rising from bell pepper picker to 2012 Olympian and now possible world champion has excited boxing fans in the region. ![]() Can he block and slip the punches I’m going to throw?” Reed asked. Former unified 140-pound world champion Jose Ramirez will meet former lightweight world champion Richard RC Commey in the 12-round junior welterweight main event Saturday, March 25, at Save Mart Center in Fresno, California. The game plan is to exploit his weakness. “He doesn’t have defense and I’m a complete fighter, even if I am a little short for the weight class. But the Maryland boxer sees it differently. Trained by seven-time trainer of the year Freddie Roach at Hollywood’s Wild Card Boxing Club, Ramirez boasts four-inch height and six-inch reach advantages on Reed and intends to complement that with an offensive effort.
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