The WBA cruiserweight title will be on the line this Saturday night on the boxing schedule. Reigning champion Arsen Goulamirian will be defending his belt against Gilberto Ramirez, a former super middleweight champion.
Goulamirian vs Ramirez Picks
- Goulamirian +200
Continue reading for the official Goulamirian vs Ramirez prediction ahead of placing any bets on boxing this weekend.
Goulamirian vs Ramirez Information
Arsen Goulamirian vs Gilberto Ramirez
Location of the fight: YouTube Theater, Inglewood, California, United States
Date & Time: March 30, 2024, 11:59 ET estimated ring walk
Where to Watch: DAZN
Last Fight Results:
Goulamirian is making his return to the ring for the first time since his unanimous decision win over Alexey Egorov in November 2022.
Ramirez is coming off a unanimous decision win over Joe Smith Jr. in October.
Goulamirian vs Ramirez Betting Analysis
Arsen Goulamirian
Goulamirian is an Armenian-born French boxer with a professional record of 27-0, including 18 wins by KO. He has held the WBA cruiserweight title since 2019 and was the interim champion before that in 2018.
Goulamirian is listed as a 6’1” orthodox fighter with a 73.5” reach. He has a 70% KO rate over his career and is currently 36 years old. He made his professional debut in 2011 and has completed 154 total rounds since. Goulamirian is also ranked as the #6 active cruiserweight by The Ring.
Gilberto Ramirez
Ramirez is a Mexican professional boxer with a 45-1 record, including 30 wins by KO under his belt at the age of 32. He was the WBO super middleweight champion from 2016 to 2019 and challenged for the light heavyweight WBA title in 2022, losing to the great Dmitry Bivol on points.
Ramirez is listed as a 6’3” southpaw fighter with a 75” reach. With legit power, Ramirez has a 67% KO rate over his long career of 46 fights. Since making his professional debut in 2009, he has completed a whopping 277 rounds in the ring.
Updates
No injuries are affecting the scores and odds reported to The Ring, WBA, or DAZN.
Goulamirian vs Ramirez Betting Preview
Making boxing picks at this championship level can be very difficult to do, especially with all the factors that aren’t on paper going into this Goulamirian vs Ramirez prediction. Let’s take a closer look at this matchup both technically and in the sportsbooks.
According to the available boxing odds, Goulamirian is going into the weekend as a +200 underdog as the challenger is coming in as a -250 betting favorite. This bout is favored to go to a decision at -225 with both men being longshots to win by KO at +300 and +500 at BetUS.
From a stylistic point of view, this fight looks like it will be an absolute war. Both men are incredibly tough and durable, coming from two of the most boxing-rich cultures in the world.
Goulamirian has an exciting style that uses his big frame and incredible strength to put constant pressure on his opponents, slowly breaking them down to the body with vicious combinations and opening the head up for the later rounds.
Ramirez has an even bigger frame than Goulamirian now at cruiserweight, using his reach to throw long shots up the middle and set up that big left hand as his go-to KO shot.
Both men haven’t been very active in recent years, with Goulamirian’s inactivity being at the forefront of the mind when trying to predict how he looks in the ring at 36 years old.
Goulamirian vs Ramirez Betting Prediction
This is a very tough prediction to make because we won’t know how Goulamirian looks until Saturday night in the ring.
With that said, we are going with the big underdog play here and our official Goulamirian vs Ramirez prediction is that Goulamirian will defend his belt with a decision win on Saturday night.
His pressure, physicality, and output will give him a slight edge on scorecards. This is a longshot bet to make even though the odds aren’t that wide of a margin. This is coming strictly from film study.
Ramirez isn’t at his best when he’s moving backward and starts tiring out in the later rounds. Assuming Goulamirian is at 100% he will exploit those weaknesses as the rounds start going by and run away with the fight in rounds 8-12.
- Goulamirian +200
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