By Steve Kim

Last week, a purse bid was held for the WBO super middleweight title fight between champion Arthur Abraham (44-4, 29KOs) and top rated challenger Gilberto Ramirez (33-0, 24KOs), and the purse bid was won by Abraham's promoter Sauerland Event with a bid of just over $1.5 million dollars, just edging out the offering put forth by Top Rank.

At this point it looked as though this fight would be heading to Germany, which is a familiar setting for the defending champion who has spent much of his career fighting in this country. Top Rank, which promotes the tall, rangy Mexican southpaw had hoped to put this on the Manny Pacquiao-Tim Bradley pay-per-view undercard on April 9th.

On Tuesday afternoon at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where a press conference was held to formally kick off this promotion, Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum announced to BoxingScene.com that Abraham-Ramirez would indeed land on this card.

"Yes, it will,"said Arum."We've reached a deal with Sauerland Event and it will be the co-feature this card."

Abraham was last seen in November when he won a twelve round decision over British contender Martin Murray in Germany and one day prior in Las Vegas, Ramirez won a ten round decision over Gevorg Khatchikian.

Also on this card is a featherweight bout between prospect Oscar Valdez and former belt-holder, Evgeny Gradovich, along with lightweight Jose Ramirez, who is scheduled to face Manny Perez.

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.