Former WBO Junior-Welterweight Titlist 🇺🇸Maurice Hooker (26-1-3, 17KO) today has made it official by informing the public that for his next bout, he will look to make a move up to the Welterweight division. Continue reading “Mo Hooker Looking to Try his Luck at a New Weight 🗞️”
🇺🇸Maurice Hooker and 🇺🇸Jose Ramirez embrace after their Super-Lightweight unification bout Saturday night in Arlington, Texas. Ramirez stopped Hooker in the 6th round to win the WBC and WBO Titles.
“I lost focus and you can’t lose focus at this level. You can’t lose focus for a second or you see what happens. I have no excuse. I lost. It wasn’t my night. I went out like a true champion with a bang.”
“He’s a champ for a reason. I take my hat off to him.”
-Maurice Hooker
By Jon Uddin🖊️ | 07/29/2019
Well it delivered every ounce of excitement that was expected when the fight was announced.
And the announcement was all that was needed to sell this one to boxing fans. There were no extra gimmicks, crazy trash talk, or tweets of the day necessary to convince anyone that a potential classic was on the way, which is good, because none of those things are in either fighters personalities.
Both Ramirez and Hooker epitomized boxers that “let their fists do the talking” come fight night and were delivering a matchup that fans appreciate seeing fighters go for in a time in boxing, where it has been rare to make that happen without extended delays. Continue reading “When the Smoke Clears:💨 Jose Ramirez vs. Maurice Hooker”
Wow, now that was Combat! 🇺🇸Jose Carlos Ramirez (25-0-0, 17KO) and 🇺🇸Maurice Hooker (26-1-3, 17KO) put forth 6 action packed rounds of non-stop back and forth strategic action, and Ramirez came out on top, bombarding Hooker in the 6th round to become the Unified WBO & WBC Junior-Welterweight Champion. Continue reading “Ramirez in FOTY Candidate TKO’s Hooker in the 6th Round 🔥”
WBO Super-Lightweight Champion 🇺🇸Maurice Hooker found boxing after getting into numerous fights on the streets of Dallas as a kid.
He has fought his way up through the hotel ballrooms and nightclubs for $500 fights to a hometown unification bout against WBC Champion 🇺🇸Jose Ramirez Saturday night in Arlington, Texas.
Now, Hooker finds his main motivation to fight in his children…
“Being a father means everything to me. It’s my legacy, it’s my motivation, it’s my daily duty. Whether I’m there or away, I’m still daddy. My kids know I do it all for them so that they can have more than I ever had plus some.”
