Gonzalez Targets The Gamboa vs Rojas Unification Bout

Jul 25, 2010 • 12:00 AM ET

By Jhonny Gonzalez

The WBC FECARBOX featherweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez (45-7, 39KOs) wants the winner of the September 11 unification between WBC champion Elio Rojas (22-1, 13KOs) and WBA "regular" champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (18-0, 15KOs).

Gonzalez won a WBC eliminator with Antonio Davis with a two round TKO in March and then won a WBC final eliminator in May with a two round knockout of Jean Javier Sotelo. On Saturday he stayed busy with a two round knockout of Aristides Perez. It was the fifth win, by TKO, since the May 2009 defeat to Toshiaki Nishioka.

The management of Gonzalez are talking about talking about another defense of the FECARBOX title in the fall and then pressing for a mandatory fight with the Rojas-Gamboa winner at the end of the year.