This weekend is certainly not a busy one, but there some real highlights taking place through out Saturday.
For many hardcore fans the stand out fight comes from Sonora where WBA “interim” Super Flyweight champion David Sanchez (28-2-2, 22) defends his title against the always fun to watch Luis Concepcion (32-4, 23). Both men have the ability to put on thrillers so we're hoping that this one lives up to the expectation and delivers and all out war. The winner will be the top contender for the upcoming “regular” title fight between Kohei Kono and Koki Kameda, who fight next month in the US. Staying in Mexico there is brilliant female world title bout between the fantastic Arely Mucino (21-2-2, 10) and the equally brilliant Jessica Chavez (23-4-3, 4). On paper this is brilliantly matched, especially give their 2013 split decision draw, and we're expecting a lot of high paced action between these two. Coming in Mucino is the WBC female Flyweight champion and will be defending her title for the first time since claiming it from Shindo Go earlier this year. South African boxing certainly isn't thriving but with Rodney Berman they do have a promoter willing to really invest in their fighters and the national scene. Today Berman puts his Minimumweight world champion Hekkie Budler (28-1, 9) up against fellow South African Simphiwe Khonco (15-4, 7) in a WBA title defense for the “Hexecutioner”. On paper it looks like a mismatch but Khonco is better than his record suggests, and has won his last 9, whilst Budler may not quite be as good as the numbers suggest. Hopefully the winner of this will agree to a unification bout with one of the other champions, such as Kosei Tanaka or Wanheng Menayothin, or face WBA #1 ranked contender Knockout CP Freshmart. In England we get an excellent Super Featherweight bout as local favourite Stephen Smith (22-1, 12) faces Italian visitor Devis Boschiero (37-3-1, 19). Smith, the younger brother of 2-time world title challenger Paul Smith, is hoping to get a world title fight if he wins here and although he's a big betting favourite there are a number of fans picking the visitor. As for Boschiero the under-rated visitor has challenged for a world title, losing a very close one to Takahiro Ao, and lost twice in very close bouts to European champion Romain Jacob. Potentially this is the fight of the night and the winner is expected to face IBF king pin Jose Pedraza in 2016
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This past Thursday may not have been a big one for boxing but we did have some action in Panama that was streamed live, around the world, by TV Max 9. For the most part these bouts where lower level and lacking any real interest to use however there were two lower weight bouts that certainly did catch our attention. The first of these bouts was fought at Super Flyweight and saw former world title challenger Ricardo Nunez (26-5, 22) suffering a shocking upset loss at the hands of the unheralded Jonathan Arias (15-9, 13). Arias, from the Dominican republic, was given no chance though managed to hurt Nunez in the second round before forcing the referee to stop proceedings with Nunez unable to protect himself. Whilst Nunez loss was a major shock the main event wasn't much of a shock with WBC #2 ranked Flyweight Luis Concepcion (31-3, 22) taking a victory over Carlos Fuentes (17-2, 14). Fuentes, a hard punching Mexican was dropped in rounds 5 and 7 before a clash of heads saw the fighters taken to the scorecards in round 9 with Concepcion taking a clear decision victory. Although the contest was relatively one sided in terms of rounds it was highly entertaining with both men landed plenty of big shots...and missing plenty of big shots. With his WBC ranking Concepcion is likely to be first in line to fight for the WBC world title next year if the much talked about world title bout between Akira Yaegashi and Roman Gonzalez takes place later this year. (Picture courtesy of boxrec) Thursday night isn't a day when Western fans tend to see much boxing in this day and age but for fans in Panama this coming Thursday is a notable night with a card shown on local channel "TV Max 9". The main event on this show sees WBC #2 ranked Flyweight Luis Concepcion (30-3, 22), pictured, defending his world ranking and his WBC Silver Flyweight title. Concepcion, one of the most entertaining Flyweights in world boxing, will be expected to roll over Mexican 23 year old Carlos Fontes (17-1, 14) who has an impressive looking record until you look at just how padded it is. To date Fontes has beaten just 5 fighters with winning records including Ernesto Guerrero, who he has beaten twice. Although a puncher the Mexican lacks the experience of Concepcion who is a former interim WBA World Flyweight title hold and holds wins over Denkaosan Kaovichit, Odilon Zaleta and Eric Ortiz. Those wins, alongside his 2 losses to Hernan "Tyson" Marquez, should have done more than enough to prepare him for a fight with Fontes. If Concepcion, as expected, gets past Fontes he'll be in pole position for a WBC Flyweight title fight with the winner of the heavily mooted bout between Akira Yaegasghi and Roman Gonzalez. With out trying to sound pre-emptive Concepcion against either would be genuinely great to watch. |
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