Yamileth Mercado will safeguard her WBC junior featherweight title against Ramla Ali at Impression Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 29.
They will meet on the card bested by the blockbuster conflict between Juan Francisco Estrada and Jesse Rodriguez for the WBC and Ring Magazine junior bantamweight titles.
Mercado (23-3, 5 KOs), set to protect her title for the seventh time in the wake of winning the tie in November 2019, will be battling in the US for just the subsequent time, having taken on Amanda Serrano in Cleveland in August 2021. The long-prevailing Mexican contributed a shutout her last guard, in April in Tijuana, ruling Linda Laura Lecca over the 10-round distance.
“I’m eager to battle in the US,” said Mercado. “There are large number of paisanos who live in Arizona. I will give them an extraordinary battle, Mexican-style. Ramla is an incredible contender, yet she won’t remove my objective of bringing together every one of the titles.”
Ali (9-1, 2 KOs), the principal contender to address Somalia in the Olympics (in 2020, in Tokyo), is entering her most memorable world title session ready for anything, having acquired retribution over Julissa Guzman in her latest trip, in November. Ali was come by Guzman in June in New Orleans, yet she outboxed her enemy in the rematch.
Yamileth Mercado-Ramla Ali Title Fight Headed to Phoenix
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“It’s difficult to explain how much this means to me,” Ali said. “As a competitor and personally, you put forth yourself objectives and difficulties in your day to day existence and in your profession. Some of them you meet and some of them you don’t. I’ve never truly found any bliss or fulfillment such a long ways in the achievements and accomplishments I’ve made. I genuinely feel that being delegated the WBC champion, which is something that I’ve for practically forever needed since I got a couple of boxing gloves when I was 12 years of age, at last gives me some harmony in the drawn out, difficult experience of battles that have gotten me to this point.
Mercado’s advertiser, Fernando Beltran of Zanfer Boxing, said, “Mercado is at present the best female warrior of Mexico, and it is a distinction to have her alongside one more of Mexico’s best contenders, Juan Francisco Estrada.”
Notwithstanding Mercado-Ali and Estrada-Rodriguez, the June 29 card will highlight a matchup of previous title holders Bright Edwards and Adrian Curiel, as well as Arturo Cardenas meeting Danny Barrios in a skirmish of unbeatens.
“I’m glad that we’ve had the option to get this extraordinary battle about the line,” said Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn, the card’s advertiser. “Yamileth has ruled long as the WBC champion and makes certain to have the fans on her side on June 29, yet Ramla has consistently taken each challenge she’s dealt with directly – and Phoenix will be the same.”
