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Rico Ramos (6-0, 4 KO's, 121.5 pounds) vs. Manuel Sarabia (16-26-9, 10 KO's, 121 pounds)

Ramos had a good amateur boxing career and was an alternate for the United States on the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic boxing team. However, he chose to turn pro in March, rather then waiting around to see if he would be needed for the Olympics.

He is a local boxer from nearby Pico Rivera, California. This match has been put here to showcase him.

Ramos' last match was a technical knockout victory at 1:42 of round 3 over Alvaro Muro on September 11, 2008 at the San Jose Arena (HP Pavilion)* in San Jose, California.

Ramos is unranked by The Ring and boxrec.com ranks him as the number 84 boxer in the world at 122 pounds.

Sarabia is the journeyman boxer that has been brought in to lose and showcase the local prospect. He is 1-10-3 in his last 14 matches.

Sarabia's last match was a 4-round unanimous decision loss to Charles Huerta on June 27, 2008 at the Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa in Cabazon, California.

Sarabia is unranked by The Ring, and the number 343 boxer at 126 pounds by boxrec.com.

At 21-years-old, Ramos is 9 years younger then the 30-year-old Sarabia. Sarabia has the height advantage standing 5' 7" tall, while Ramos stands 5' 5" tall. The native of Mexico has the reach advantage with a 73" wingspan, compared to the 71" wingspan of Ramos. Neither boxers' unofficial weight approaching match time is available. However, Sarabia will probably be the larger boxer in the ring. Both boxers will employ the orthodox stance.

The referee is Jerry Cantu.

Ramos is showing great hand speed. He is consistently working the body of Sarabia in round 1. A left to the body has Sarabia badly hurt and backing up into the corner with 1:37 to go in round 1. Following that body punch, Sarabia stopped defending himself forcing the referee to move in to stop the match with Sarabia still standing with 1:32 to go in round 1.

The official outcome from the "Classy" Jimmy Lennon, Jr. is that: at 1:31 of round 1 the referee has stopped the contest making the winner by technical knockout and still undefeated, Rico Ramos. The win moves Ramos to 7-0 with 5 of those wins coming by way of knockout.

The final punchstat numbers have Ramos landing 14 total punches in the abbreviated match. Sarabia landed 1 total punch in the match.

Ramos said nothing of note in his post match interview.

Ramos was impressive in this match. Since Ramos is so young, he would be best off to keep knocking out opponents at a slowly increasing level as he develops. Following this performance, there may be an inclination him to rush him along to significantly better opponents. However, it should be at least 2 years before Ramos starts facing boxers that are around the top 10 in the 122-pound division.

After this bad stretch of losses, Sarabia probably should not be sanctioned by any boxing commissions. It is probably unsafe for him to be in the ring anymore. Retirement is probably his best option.