{"id":219527,"date":"2025-10-23T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219527\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:09:09","slug":"christian-mbillis-trainer-marc-ramsay-noncommittal-on-lester-martinez-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219527\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Mbilli’s Trainer Marc Ramsay Noncommittal On Lester Martinez Rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHEFFIELD, England \u2014 Marc Ramsay made sure not to overlook, nor indulge in forecasting the future when asked about what’s next following Arslanbek Makhmudov’s bruising 12-round points win over Dave Allen<\/a> earlier this month.
Yet he told The Ring<\/a> of his ‘very busy’ schedule between now and the year’s end, predominantly in Montreal, Canada, with several fighters he trains scheduled for matchups or awaiting news on their future.<\/p>\n

Junior welterweight talent Wyatt Sanford (4-0, 2 KOs) continues on-the-job learning after clinching Olympic bronze last summer, while super middleweight hopeful Moreno Fendero (12-0, 10 KOs) has benefited from an active schedule: six stoppage wins in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

Colombian 140-pound contender Jhon Orobio (15-0, 13 KOs) faces a step-up in competition against South Africa’s seasoned contender Xolisani Ndongeni (33-7, 19 KOs) next month on the Erik Bazinyan-Steven Butler undercard, which all three prospects are set to feature in.<\/p>\n

Anyone else of note? Well, it’s almost impossible to forget about WBC interim super middleweight beltholder Christian Mbilli.<\/p>\n

“Christian will be back in the gym soon before his next fight,” Ramsay chuckled when asked for an update on the 30-year-old, a month removed from his thrilling 10-round split draw with Lester Martinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KOs) made the first defence of his interim title by breezing beyond Maciej Sulecki on June 28, though left critics wanting more after being kept honest by a crafty operator showing more to his game than mere punching power.<\/p>\n

Martinez’s team requested and were approved a direct rematch by the WBC<\/a>, who since ordered ‘free negotiations’ to arrange the rematch. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has told The Ring they haven’t begun a 30-day deadline yet, but that might not matter.<\/p>\n

On the topic of an immediate rematch, Ramsay was non-committal.<\/p>\n

“Look, we’ll see,” he said. “We’re starting negotiations down a different route right now but will assess everything.” <\/p>\n

“It was a good fight, I’ve known Lester since he was an amateur and knew how good he is, he beat two-time Olympic champion Arlen Lopez [as an amateur, 2018] and did it with a pro style. He’s a real good prospect but boxing people didn’t know him yet.<\/p>\n

“We know he’s an elite-level fighter but was unknown in boxing circles, had a lot to lose but Christian had everything on him\u2014age, maturity\u2014so if you want to make your place at the top table, you must take fights like that one.”<\/p>\n

The sentiment that Martinez (19-0-1, 16 KOs) was a hidden gem has been echoed by his head coach, Brian McIntyre.<\/p>\n

Much was said about the hard-hitting Guatemalan playing a pivotal role in sparring alongside Terence Crawford before his undisputed super middleweight triumph over Canelo Alvarez<\/a>. <\/p>\n

While featuring on a Crawford undercard would’ve done wonders for his profile, it’s time for the 29-year-old to blossom as a headliner himself in future. <\/p>\n

“You know he was Terence’s chief sparring partner for Canelo but just wow, a phenomenal kid and the nicest to work with,” he told The Ring.<\/p>\n

“He never complains about anything, always goes above and beyond in his training and I want to see the rematch next. That fight just gave me a little bit more of what we need to work on, as a team and for Lester himself.”<\/p>\n

Mbilli has been linked with multiple names already this year, including Diego Pacheco and Kevin Lele Sadjo – who now box one another on Dec. 13<\/a>, as well as divisional newcomer Hamzah Sheeraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sheeraz’s head coach Andy Lee rejected the possibility of a high-risk, low-reward matchup against Mbilli when questioned in the summer.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sheeraz’s promoter Frank Warren has insisted they’re unwilling to wait around<\/a> with prospective opponent Canelo set to undergo arthroscopic elbow surgery<\/a> next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHEFFIELD, England \u2014 Marc Ramsay made sure not to overlook, nor indulge in forecasting the future when asked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-219527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}