Gabriel Rosado is the type of fighter anyone boxer who has lived the sport as a profession can respect. His record doesn’t display the type of caliber of fighter he is, and even after losing on the world-class stage multiple times, he continues to reinvent himself.
Now Rosado is 37-years-old, and the Philly fighter, who lives in Hollywood, California, trained by Freddie Roach, will look to fight at light heavyweight for the first time in his career as he attempts to do battle with former light heavyweight world champion, Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez. For Rosado, he is savoring being the underdog once again.
Rosado is reference a shocking loss to Shane Mosley Jr., who moved up in weight to fight him and won a clear unanimous decision against Rosado. It seems that being promoted as the a-side fighter, the house fighter, was a difficult position to be in. Rosado has been a man who fought the system for his whole career, but once he became the system it seemed harder to get motivated. Now at a higher weight, against one of the best of the division, Rosado is looking for one last moment of glory.
“This fight [against “Zurdo” Ramirez] is a fight that means something, its a meaningful fight,” said Rosado. “[Ramirez] is a dangerous dude, and a bigger man. So I definitely have to be on my a-game.”
As for the move up in weight class Rosado isn’t so sure that he hasn’t faced bigger punchers, as he faced Gennadiy Golovkin, David Lemieux, amongst many other big punchers of his era. Rosado isn’t so quick to say that he hasn’t experience a light heavyweight punch.
“I’ve worked with big guys all the time," said Rosado to DAZN Boxing. "There’s middleweights that punch harder than light heavyweights. I’m sure I’ve fought plenty of middleweights that punched harder than light heavyweights.”
