At this time noticed Matchroom maintain its first press convention for the hotly anticipated tremendous flyweight showdown between Juan Francisco Estrada and Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez on June twenty ninth. Although no official undercard bouts got here to gentle, Ramla Ali was readily available to announce that she was in “closing talks” to problem WBC tremendous bantamweight champion Yamileth Mercado.
Ali (9-1, 2 KO) was on the flawed finish of one of many nastiest girls’s knockouts in current reminiscence final June when unheralded Julissa Alejandra Guzman slept her within the eighth. The pair ran it again 5 months later, and to her credit score, Ali did handle to eke out a trio of 6-4 scorecards to even the rating.
My guess is that these bouts impressed the 34-year-old to shoot her shot whereas she’s received the possibility.
Standing in the way in which of her storybook ending is Mercado (23-3, 5 KO), eight years her junior and BoxRec’s no. 1 at 122. “Yeimi’s” solely unavenged lack of the final seven years was a failed featherweight title shot in opposition to Amanda Serrano and he or she boasts a large resolution win over Guzman in a 2021 title protection.
