Team Rigondeaux To Santa Cruz: Step Up After Ruiz

By Ryan Burton

Last week WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his team were in New York to attend Roc Nation's debut boxing event.

While in New York, Team Rigondeaux met up with WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman and spoke about a potential unification bout with WBC super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz.

According to Caribe Promotions' Vice President Louis Fonseca, Sulaiman is very interested in having that fight take place provided Santa Cruz takes care of business Saturday night against Jesus Ruiz.

"Rigo wants to wish Santa Cruz the best of luck Saturday night so that he can fight him next.  The fans want to see that fight. Rigondeaux's last fight in Japan was very exciting and a fight against Santa Cruz is must see TV. Santa Cruz needs to step up his competition in 2015 and give the fans what they want," Fonseca told BoxingScene.com. 

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