John ‘Scrappy’ Ramirez will have to wait two more weeks to inch closer towards his first major title.

Golden Boy Promotions confirmed that Ramirez’s planned clash versus Panama’s Ronal Batista will no longer take place this weekend as originally scheduled. The WBA junior bantamweight title eliminator will now land on an October 21 DAZN show, also presented by Golden Boy and headlined by the Alexis Rocha-Giovanni Santillan welterweight bout from the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California.

The move means that Los Angeles’ Ramirez will no longer appear on the same DAZN show this weekend as his training stablemate. Saturday’s card moves forward with Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez (44-1, 30KOs; no relation), the former WBO super middleweight who faces former WBO light heavyweight titlist Joe Smith Jr. in a scheduled twelve-round WBA cruiserweight title eliminator from Chelsea Ballroom at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

Bektemir Melikuziev (12-1, 9KOs) and Alantez ‘SlyAzA’ Fox (28-4-1, 13KOs) will move into the co-feature slot for Saturday’s show in a scheduled ten-round regional super middleweight title fight.

No reason was given for the Ramirez-Batista postponement.

Los Angeles’ Ramirez (12-0, 8KOs) has gone the distance in three of his last four starts. The flamboyant 27-year-old budding contender earned a ten-round, split decision over Fernando Diaz in his most recent start on May 27 at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California. The bout appeared on a DAZN show also headlined by Rocha, who stopped Anthony Young in the fifth round of their welterweight contest.

Batista (15-3, 9KOs) enters off his first career title fight. It ended in an eleventh-round knockout defeat to WBC flyweight titlist Julio Cesar Martinez (20-2, 15KOs; 2NC) on the May 6 Canelo Alvarez-John Ryder undercard in Zapopan, Mexico. The 26-year-old Panamanian previously won three straight at junior bantamweight, where he returns for what will serve as his U.S. debut.

The winner of the title eliminator will become the mandatory challenger to four-division and reigning WBA junior bantamweight titlist Kazuto Ioka (30-2-1, 15KOs), whom–as Boxing Scene previously reported—is in advanced talks for a unification bout with lineal and WBC champ Juan Francisco ‘El Gallo’ Estrada (44-3, 28KOs). Once finalized, the junior bantamweight championship will headline a New Year’s Eve show in Tokyo.

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for krikya360.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox