Burgos vs. Hasegawa at 126 for the vacant WBC title...

Hes a champ in recess or something.He has a long injury but will have the right to recliam it. Ahh... Cool so is possible he fights the winner.

Did Elio Rojas get stripped or what is going on there? Hes a champ in recess or something.He has a long injury but will have the right to recliam it.

Did Elio Rojas get stripped or what is going on there?

As a Hasegawa fan how is he fighting for a WBC Title? Man the WBC is corrupt as ever. They are on a roll. I think we know how.

As a Hasegawa fan how is he fighting for a WBC Title? Man the WBC is corrupt as ever. They are on a roll.

Jrosales posted news yesterday that Hasegawa was having trouble making 118.

since noone else has said it, i will. this fight is more of sulaimans bull ****. another blatant move to have his title in the hands of a mexican fighter. hasegawa was crushed in his last fight two divisions below this, but he walks right into a championship fight. and noone seems to have a problem with it. this is why boxing is in the state that it is.

Controversial move, but interesting. I would have said Super Bantamweight would be a good move up but going up 2 divisions can be quite a shock when he gets hit by a Featherweight. He can't have the best of chins because Montiel brutally KO'ed him at Bantamweight.

This fight is listed on boxrec so is this fight a done deal? its not a done deal,But it will most likely happen.

Juan Carlos Burgos a tough dude.I seen him a couple of times,he is pretty lanky with decent boxing skills.I'm suprised hasegawa took this fight.

the reason he's doing it is because he is having weight issues and he's been killing himself to make bantamweight. he needed to move up, i think its been time. the same could be said for a certain phillipino fighter named nonito. oh yea, j-ro posted a decent amount of info on hasegawa's future earlier today if u guys wanna go find it.

What does everyone think of Juan Carlos Burgos? I watched him against Juan Carlos Martinez on ESPN and was moderately impressed, but not blown away.

Where's F l i c k e r?

I would like to see this fight I want see how hasegawa come back from the loss and if he would still have that power in 126. make it happen

Because it's become increasingly difficult for him to make 118. He actually contemplated moving up to 126 after his fight with Perez in December of 2009, but decided to stay at 118. He often reaches around 140 pounds in between fights.This one makes sense, walking around at 140 and fighting at 118 is a quite difficult as one ages.

It's just strange to me that he skipped 122. I mean, if he was dying to make 118, and it was so drastic that he is skipping 122, it seems like he would have jumped to 122 earlier. I had read that one of his reasons for staying at 118 for so long is that he wanted to break Yoko Gushiken's record of title defenses for a Japanese fighter (he had 13 or so, not sure). He's been at the weight since he was 18, you'd think this move would've happened earlier as you said. He and his people probably feel going down to 122 would still be too much.

It's just strange to me that he skipped 122. I mean, if he was dying to make 118, and it was so drastic that he is skipping 122, it seems like he would have jumped to 122 earlier.

According to the site that reports the news about fights. Why in the hell is Hasegawa moving up two weight divisions to fight a young, strong, undefeated fighter? I don't see this going well, and unless he moves back down, his days as anything more than an opponent are probably over. He must have had severe weight issues that he never spoke of. This isn't like jumping from 130 to 147 over a decade like Mayweather (7 and 1/2 % gain in body weight), 160 to 175 like Hopkins (10+% gain in body weight) or 175 to 215 like Adamek (4+% gain in body weight). Hozumi will be gaining nearly 15% of his body weight in this move. To say the least, I would be guessing he was struggling badly with weight.

According to the site that reports the news about fights. Why in the hell is Hasegawa moving up two weight divisions to fight a young, strong, undefeated fighter? I don't see this going well, and unless he moves back down, his days as anything more than an opponent are probably over. Because it's become increasingly difficult for him to make 118. He actually contemplated moving up to 126 after his fight with Perez in December of 2009, but decided to stay at 118. He often reaches around 140 pounds in between fights.

he was too big for Bantamweight I guess 122 is his natural weight he should at least have one fight their imo