Gilberto Ramirez outboxes bloodied Chris Billam-Smith to earn unanimous decision win over brave Brit

CHRIS BILLAM-SMITH survived a bloody oculus wounded but mislaid his cruiserweight satellite rubric to Gilberto Ramirez.

The 34-year-old Bournemouth leader achieved his boyhood imagination by winning the WBO crown astatine the Cherries’ Vitality stadium past year.

But helium dared to beryllium excessively great, up against Mexico’s masterful southpaw WBA champ and mislaid a wide unanimous determination 116-112, 116-112 and 116-113.

The Brit had been blameworthy of earnestly dilatory starts successful caller wins but got disconnected to a flyer successful Riyadh.

The Dorset antheral landed a fistful of stiff consecutive hands that a leftie similar Ramirez ever struggles to handle.

And helium showed assurance by walking the erstwhile super-middle champ down and landing a near hook.

Ramirez, 33, made a cleanable commencement to the 2nd erstwhile helium walked the Englishman onto a abbreviated and crisp near hook.

The Mexican secured the 2nd stanza by scoring again astatine the extremity of the league erstwhile CBS struggled to woody with his accelerated hands and got pinned successful a country and peppered.

CBS made a beardown commencement to the third, with long-range combinations. But Ramirez boxed his mode backmost into the circular with 3 much saccharine near hooks.

With 30 seconds of an adjacent 4th circular left, Ramirez landed a peach of a pb close hook that buzzed Billam-Smith and chopped his nose, close connected the interior country of his near eye.

It felt similar a seminal infinitesimal that would fto Ramirez tally distant with the combat oregon spark CBS into life.

Six was different banker for Ramirez erstwhile clever digs scored with the officials. 

Billam-Smith smiled disconnected 1 whack helium suffered but it wasn’t a laughing substance with the scorecards mounting against him and the chopped increasing and gushing.

The doc checked the pulverised peeper earlier the seventh started and allowed the enactment to continue.

Ramirez looked fleshy up astatine 14st 4lbs but his feet were superb arsenic helium changed angles and chopped the ringing down astir the bleeding father-of-one.

A near hook to the assemblage made CBS gasp and tuck-up and past a close manus was plunged into his wounded face.

CBS stumbled aft a close hook clipped him successful circular 8 but helium shook his caput successful defiance and dug successful again to onshore a fewer of his ain prime close hooks.

Ramirez raced distant with the ninth with objective punches that ghosted past Billam-Smith’s defender and popped his caput backwards. But our lad ne'er stopped marching guardant and throwing shots successful an effort to crook the Red Sea tide.

Knowing helium needed a knockout, CBS threw everything successful the 12th but helium was a breached antheral and beaten combatant who tin present contention location to beryllium a large dada to small Frank who helium missed truthful overmuch during camp.

After the fight, CBS said: "Zurdo's consistency contiguous won it for him.

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"He was truly good, helium throws tons of shots and past moves.

"The chopped gave maine problems, my show was going blurry astatine times and I couldn't spot properly.

"But his bully enactment caused it and that's the sport, nary complaints."