{"id":352497,"date":"2025-12-16T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352497\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:08:07","slug":"robin-safar-out-of-gilberto-ramirez-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352497\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Safar out of Gilberto Ramirez fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This past Friday, Dan Rafael <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanRafael1\/status\/1999568390545985794\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> that cruiserweight contender Robin Safar\u2019s planned January 16th bout against Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d Ramirez was off, with Ramirez potentially skipping the date entirely in favor of going right into his blockbuster showdown with David Benavidez on May 2nd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAfter my last fight, I came out with an injury on my knuckle in my right hand,\u201d said Safar. \u201cWe\u2019ve been talking about pushing the date to February on the undercard of the Ryan Garcia fight. It would be amazing if that can be. If I don\u2019t get that fight, there are obviously a lot more opportunities that I could get. I want to fight for a title eliminator. I want to become a world champion. There are a lot of names out there that I want to fight so I\u2019m taking it day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Ryan Garcia\u2019s title shot against Mario Barrios does indeed go down on February 21st, that would give Ramirez (48-1, 30 KO) just over two months to recuperate and prepare for \u201cEl Bandera Roja.\u201d Doesn\u2019t strike me as the wisest move; Safar (19-0, 13 KO) is competent enough to at least make Ramirez work for it and every minute in the ring is another minute where some freak injury could happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This past Friday, Dan Rafael reported that cruiserweight contender Robin Safar\u2019s planned January 16th bout against Gilberto \u201cZurdo\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,85],"class_list":["post-352497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}