By Ronnie Nathanielsz

Happily surprised with Brian Viloria’s sensational 11th round knockout victory over heavily-favored Mexican Ulises Solis to win the IBF light flyweight title, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum revealed he is now looking at “big fights in this weight division.”

Arum said he hadn’t discussed future plans for Viloria who recaptured the old form that made him the WBC champion some years ago with a stunning first round knockout of Eric Ortiz to beat Solis, but indicated that “the biggest fight would be against the undefeated champion Ivan Calderon of Puerto Rico .”

Arum said he thinks that a Viloria-Calderon clash “would be a tremendous, tremendous fight and who knows maybe we can do that fight here in Manila ” sometime in the last quarter of the year. Arum said he would discuss the possibility with Solar Sports CEO Peter Chanliong.

The Top Rank promoter who was scheduled to leave for the US Monday night to be in time for a big affair in San Francisco where Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao will throw the ceremonial pitch in a San Francisco Giants game said “it will be a real great championship fight.”

Arum said he knows Calderon who had fought so many times on Top Rank cards and described him as a “really courageous, very skilled fighter and I don’t think he will hesitate for a minute to come over here to fight Brian (Viloria). So lets hope we can put that together for the fall and in the interim maybe Brian will have another fight against another contender and then get ready for a big money fight against Calderon.”

Viloria recalled that he had fought Calderon in the Olympic trials and they had “a little bit of history because we are 1-1. He beat me once and I beat him once and I stopped him.“

However, Viloria said there was a vast difference between the amateurs and the pros and he believes a title clash with  Calderon will be “an intriguing fight.”