He faced fellow Philly 160-pound spoilers Willie Monroe and Bobby Watts (who would both retire with wins over middleweight great Marvelous Marvin Hagler) in February and July. Then, a month later, he would square off with New York’s future world champion Eddie Mustafa Mohammed.
Undefeated, Mexican champion Gilberto Ramirez (38-0, 25 KO’s) will defend his WBO world super-middleweight title against Philadelphia’s Jesse Hart in a rematch at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas on Friday, December 14. By Bill Tibbs