By Miguel Rivera
Francisco León García Baseball Stadium in Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico - Former unified WBA/WBO flyweight world champion Juan Francisco 'Gallo' Estrada (34-2, 24 KOs) was hoping to make a big statement in his super flyweight debut, but instead he dominated Filipino Raymond Tabugon (18-6-1, 8 KOs) over ten one-sided rounds. All three judges had it scored 100-90.
Estrada, who due to a hand injury was out of the ring since September 2015, recently vacated his World Boxing Organization and World Boxing Association flyweight titles.
The boxer is viewed by many experts as the current pound-for-pound best fighter from Mexico.
The 26-year-old Estrada is gunning for a rematch with Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez, who won a war over Estrada in 2012 at junior flyweight. Gonzalez recently made the jump to super flyweight and captured the WBC title from Carlos Cuadras two weeks go in Los Angeles.
Chocolatito was not exactly spectacular in his 115 debut. He won a close fight, and some saw it as a draw. Along the way, his face took a lot of punishement from the heavy hands of Cuadras.
After weeks ago, Chocaltito said he was more interested in a rematch with Cuadras than a rematch with Estrada. HBO is reportedly very interested in televising an Gonzalez-Estrada rematch - but both fighters are looking for seven figure purses to do the fight.
The next ordered of business for Estrada is a major opponent in 2017 - although Estrada had mentioned the loose possibility of fighting again in December if possible. He wants to get himself in a world title eliminator and named Cuadras as the perfect opponent - with the winner getting a direct shot at Chocolatito.