Welterweight contender Gor Yeritsyan, (19-1, 15 KO’s), will climb by way of the ropes for his first project of 2025 on February 21 on the Chumash On line casino, in Santa Ynez, California on promoter Tom Loeffler’s “360 Promotions” card. Yeritsyan hopes the combat will kick off a robust yr.
This will likely be his 2nd bout again after a setback, SD loss, in July of final yr to undefeated Aram Amirkhanyan in Commerce, California. It was a irritating night time choosing up his first loss on a razor-thin choice, however he bounced again 3 months later with a KO win.
Whereas an 8-year skilled (he turned professional in 2017), that quantity is deceptive. He took 2 ½ years off (2021 and 2022) earlier than returning final yr. Since that point, he has gone 5-1 and regarded spectacular in doing so.
Gor is skilled out of the famed Wild Card Boxing Membership in Los Angeles, beneath the course of legend Freddie Roach, with the assist of conditioning coach Pedro Garcia and prime workers trainers like Marvin Somodio, Pepe Reilly, Ernie Zavala, and Dick Eklund Jr.
For this bout, Gor is aware of he should maintain the momentum going off his final win, a powerful KO final October.
The loss ledger is a little bit heavy for upcoming opponent, Mexico’s Luis Hernandez Ramos (23-6, 20 KOs), having dropped 6 of his final 8. These numbers are deceiving. The mixed file of his final 4 opponents that he misplaced to was 54-0-1.
Ramos has no qualms about testing himself in opposition to good fighters and Yeritsyan’s spectacular file gained’t elevate an eyebrow with Ramos.
Yeritsyan, a robust puncher who prefers to deal with his boxing abilities at the beginning, will likely be trying to financial institution one other spectacular win on the twenty first and put the welterweight division on discover that he’s coming.
As he informed me in a latest interview, “I’ve to maintain going ahead, and ahead; I can’t cease”.
His first step ahead for this yr is Friday, February twenty first, in opposition to Hernandez.
It is a fighter to observe. Search for many extra steps ahead for Yeritsyan in 2025.
