{"id":30247,"date":"2021-03-04T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=30247"},"modified":"2021-03-04T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T07:00:47","slug":"ruiz-arreola-undercard-filling-out-two-fights-reported-for-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=30247","title":{"rendered":"Ruiz-Arreola undercard filling out, two fights reported for show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><figcaption>Photo by Ethan Miller\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Figueroa has not fought in nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>FOX\u2019s upcoming April 24 pay-per-view, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2021\/3\/1\/22308375\/andy-ruiz-jr-next-fight-vs-chris-arreola-headline-april-24-fox-ppv-boxing-news-2021\">headlined by Andy Ruiz Jr vs Chris Arreola<\/a>, appears to be coming together. The last two days have seen Mike Coppinger reveal a pair of matchups that figure to be plenty entertaining, if not particularly heavy on name value: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCoppinger\/status\/1366859155026239492\">Omar Figueroa Jr vs Abel Ramos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCoppinger\/status\/1367140454936969223\">Jesus Ramos vs Javier Molina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Figueroa (28-1-1, 19 KO) has seen a promising career fizzle out due to inactivity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2015\/5\/8\/8575983\/pbc-on-nbc-weigh-in-results-figueroa-misses-weight-but-fight-will-go\">regularly missing weight<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2018\/2\/13\/17010242\/omar-figueroa-facing-dui-charge-ahead-of-broner-fight\">issues outside of the ring<\/a>. He nonetheless kept an undefeated record intact until July 2019, when Yordenis Ugas ran roughshod over him on the Pacquiao-Thurman undercard. He hasn\u2019t fought since and will be in tough against Ramos (26-4-2, 20 KO), who\u2019s only ever lost to quality opposition and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2020\/2\/15\/21139505\/pbc-on-fox-results-abel-ramos-controversial-comeback-stoppage-bryant-perrella-video-highlights\">scored an impressive come-from-behind knockout of Bryant Perrella last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abel\u2019s nephew Jesus Ramos (15-0, 14 KO) is a highly promising and highly entertaining 19-year-old who\u2019s ended all of his fights inside four rounds and was last seen knocking out Jesus Emilio Bojorquez on last Saturday\u2019s Anthony Dirrell-Kyrone Davis card. He faces a genuine test in Molina (22-3, 9 KO), who\u2019d beaten the capable Hiroki Okada and Amir Imam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/2020\/9\/20\/21447155\/pedraza-vs-molina-results-jose-routs-javier-efe-ajagba-robeisy-ramirez-win-top-rank-boxing-news\">before last September\u2019s loss to Jose Pedraza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Genuinely good matchmaking for a FOX card. For a PPV card? You\u2019ll have to do better than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Ethan Miller\/Getty Images Figueroa has not fought in nearly two years. FOX\u2019s upcoming April 24 pay-per-view, headlined by Andy Ruiz Jr vs Chris Arreola, appears to be coming together. The last two days have seen Mike Coppinger reveal a pair of matchups that figure to be plenty entertaining, if not particularly heavy on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}