Roman Gonzalez Motivated To Capture Fourth Divisional Title

By Steve Kim

While WBC flyweight champion Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez faces McWilliams Arroyo on April 23rd as the HBO co-feature to Gennady Golovkin-Dominic Wade at the Forum in Inglewood, California, he has bigger goals in mind.

After winning titles as a strawweight, junior flyweight and flyweight, he said through his manager Carlos Blandon,"My biggest dream is a fourth title (115-pounds) but if the rematch with (Juan Francisco) Estrada comes up, I'm ready."

Estrada, who Gonzalez defeated back in 2012 in what was a highly entertaining fight at the L.A. Sports Arena, has since captured two major belts at flyweight since then and has clearly established himself as the biggest threat to the Nicaraguan star in that division. It's a fight that HBO is said to be very interested in for the second half of the year.

Regardless, Gonzalez - who has a sterling mark of 44-0 (38 KO's) - has him aim on being a four-division champion.

"That would be my dream, to have the 115, 112 (pound) titles but I understand it's really hard to get rivals that might make me move up and not have both titles at the same time But I'm ready. I can keep fighting at 112."

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com