Mexican Hero Ultimio Sugar Ramos, WBA and WBC Featherweight Champion, Dies at 75
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Mexico City, Mexico (September 6th, 2017)– Ultimio Sugar Ramos, who fled Cuba after Fidel Castro took power, and became a Mexican hero and world featherweight champion, has passed away in Mexico at the age of 75. Despite becoming a world champion and national hero in his adopted country of Mexico, the career of sugar Ramos will always be remembered by three incidents of extreme ring controversy.
Fighting between 1957 and 1972, Sugar Ramos compiled a record 55-7-4 with 40 knockouts. He won the World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association World Featherweight title in controversy on March 21, 1963, when he knocked out Davey Moore, whose head hit the bottom rope, developed whiplashed and died two days later. He defended his belt against Mitsunori Seki and Floyd Robertson. The 15 round decision over Robertson went wild, first being ruled a No Contest, then having Robertson declared the winner, then Sugar Ramos was the winner by a score of 70-69 and 70-69. The officials in Ghana wanted Robertson to win. After losing his title to Vicente Saldivar, Ramos moved up to lightweight.
On October 22, 1966, against WBA and WBC Lightweight champion Carlos Ortiz, Ramos apparently knocked him out in the second round, however referee Billy Conn conducted a long count, taking 13 seconds to reach the count of eight. In the fifth round, the referee stopped the bout on a cut. The ringside doctor said do not stop the bout, but Conn, claiming he misunderstood (the ringside doctor did not speak good English) stopped the bout improperly with Ramos ahead on the cards. After losing a rematch to Ortiz, Ramos went 1-1-1 in his final three bouts, retiring in 1972. He was later getting inducted in the International and World Boxing Halls of Fame.
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