On July 27, 2019, José Ramírez (24-0, 16 KOs), the super-lightweight WBC champion, and the super-lightweight WBO champion Maurice Hooker (26-0-3, 17 KOs), meet in a title-unification fight.
José Ramírez is coming in to the fight on a 24-fight win streak with a 66% KO rate; his last fight was a majority decision win over Jose Zepeda, 5 months and 17 days ago. Maurice Hooker is on a 5-fight win streak with a 58% KO rate, with his last fight being a unanimous decision win over Mikkel LesPierre, 4 months and 18 days ago.
This should be a confident win for José Ramírez at 99-1 winning odds. Maurice Hooker really doesn't have much to present against Ramírez.
José Ramírez stopped Maurice Hooker via TKO in the 6th round of the 12-round world-title fight and unified the WBC and WBO super-lightweight titles. Ramírez improves his record to 25-0 (17 KOs), while Hooker adds a loss to his record at 26-1-3.