Oscar Valdez Hopes To Defend WBO Title as Soon as Possible
By Miguel Rivera
For now it is time for a vacation, but if necessary Oscar Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs) would jump on the opportunity to defend his WBO featherweight title in December. But if not, then Valdez would likely not return until the month of March or April.
Valdez won a tough fight with Filipino contender Genesis Servania two weeks ago in Tucson, Arizona, as part of Top Rank card that was televised on ESPN.
During that fight, Valdez visited the canvas from a hard knockdown and he was also stunned more than once. He says the experience of that fight will really help him against opponents like Carl Frampton, Abner Mares, Lee Selby, Gary Russell and Leo Santa Cruz.
"I would love to come back in the month of December, I know it was a tough fight, twelve hard rounds but I did not get cut. I hope I can come back in December and if not, whenever they tell me, in February or March I will be ready to to face whoever, a champion must face everyone," Valdez said to ESPN Deportes.
Valdez's manager, Frank Espinoza, says the next date for his boxing would likely come down in March or April.
"We would love to give him a date soon, but it's probably not going to be until March 2018. He's resting, he deserves it, it was a tough fight, the opponent was harder than many had thought. The good thing is, Oscar and the whole team knew that the Filipino was tough, and of course, had to adjust and surely learned a lot," Espinoza said.
"In boxing someone can never stop learning. Surely they will go to work on the things we saw, they will correct the necessary mistakes and we will continue working on his defense, although in the end I liked what he did because he wanted to give emotion to his people and when he saw that he was being too tight, so he gave us a great fight while remaining exciting and that is what people like."
