By Rey Danseco

THE WBC sent the camps of Omar Niño of Mexico and Filipino southpaw Juanito Rubillar their first notice about the organization’s safety requirements for their upcoming elimination fight on June 7 in Mexico City.

Luis M. Escalona, WBC Safety committee chairman, informed Gabriel “Bebot” Elorde yesterday in his email that Rubillar and Niño must undergo a mandatory 30-day and seven-day safety weight check-ins prior to the fight.

The results must be sent to the WBC Executive Office in Mexico City, Escalona said all weights must be supervised by a medical doctor, Boxing commission or a previously WBC appointed weight supervisor.

He added that Medical Examinations must include EKG that also known as Electrocardiogram (ECG), Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Full Physical Examination, Ophthalmologic examination with dilated pupils, Full Blood work including, Hepatitis B surface antigen (Hep B sAg), Hepatitis C Antibody, and HIV, also if the boxers has not provided a blood type, Escalona asked them to do so.

The WBC requires the boxers for a championship match to weigh no more than 10% and 5% of the contracted weight for the fight in the previously stated periods. In the event that the boxer exceeds the weight qualifications stated, the WBC may, for the safety of the boxer, refuse to sanction the bout.

The survivor in Niño-Rubillar collision will earn the right to fight for the WBC light flyweight title, which reigning champion Edgar Sosa (31-5, 16 KOs) of Mexico plans to risk on the same card where his top two contenders fight at Arena Mexico, an indoor arena with 16,500 seating capacity and originally opened in 1933, in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

According to WBC president Jose Sulaiman, the Federal District Government, that is the Mexico City State, promotes the huge fight card in a national boxing fiesta with four main bouts.

Elorde says his 31-year-old prizefighter has no problems with weight and assures Rubillar will not weigh more than 10% on the contracted weight for the fight at 108 lbs.

Sosa, a 28-year old Mexico City native, originally set his fifth title defense against ninth-ranked Panamanian challenger Carlos Melo last week at Caribe Convention Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which is a Caribbean nation of about 8.7 million people and one of the poorest countries in the Americas. Promoter Jacques Deschamps did not push the fight through.

Niño (25-2-1, 11 KOs) upset Brian Viloria on Aug. 10, 2006 to win his WBC light flyweight title and held the belt until he was stripped of the title on the first week of February 2007 for testing positive for amphetamine after his draw against Viloria in his first title defense three months earlier. The 31-year old Guadalajara native has not fought since he lost the title.

Rubillar (44-10-7, 21 KOs) hasn’t loss in his last five fights, winning since October 2006. He will make his third appearance in Mexico after losing his two bouts against Jorge Arce for WBC interim light flyweight title and WBC light flyweight belt early this decade.