While UFC 240 was going on, the most important and most competitive major fight of the weekend happened in the boxing ring. Jose Ramirez (25-0, 17 KOs) entered Saturday night as the WBC junior welterweight champion, while Maurice Hooker (24-1-3, 16 KOs) was the WBO champion.
In a rare moment of sanity, Top Rank and Matchroom Boxing got together to make this fight happen, network contracts be damned. The DAZN streamed bout was 50-50 on paper and proved to be one of boxing’s best matches of 2019. In front of a raucous crowd in Hooker’s hometown of Dallas, Texas, Ramirez and Hooker waged war on each other just about from the opening bell.