Roman Gonzalez to fight Juan Purisima

http://www.asianboxing.info/5/post/2014/03/roman-gonzalezs-opponent-for-ring-of-diamonds-named.html#comments We believe that the the opponent for Nicaraguan sensation Roman "El Chocolatito" Gonzalez (38-0, 32) for his upcoming bout on April 6th has been named. Gonzalez, who is expected to fight Akira Yaegashi later this year, was originally expected to fight a tough opponent though it appears his camp have taken the approach of fighting an easy bout rather than letting Gonzalez run a risk of picking up a cut. Instead of a testing opponent it seems that Gonzalez's camp have settled on Filipino Juan Purisima (11-4-1, 4), pictured. Purisima, a 22 year old who is based in General Santos City, lost his most recent bout to Ukrainian Artem Dalakian though has not been stopped since a 4th stoppage defeat on his debut to Rommel Asenjo, who is currently world ranked. This bout, on the undercard of Yaegashi's fight with Odilon Zaleta and Naoya Inoue's title challenge with Adrian Hernandez, is likely to see Gonzalez going through the gears before a Yaegashi bout. Although the bout is an "easy one" it will give Yaegahsi a chance to take a close look at Gonzalez and likewise will allow Gonzalez a chance to study Yaegashi ahead of a genuine Flyweight superbout. As long as this sets up Yaegashi

Comments (10)

Hougigo

This fight is pointless.... Roman needs to fight the big names This supposely paves the way to Yaegashi. He'll be the lineal and the man to beat...but that won't solve his problems.

12y ago

Sugar_Adam_Ali

This fight is pointless.... Roman needs to fight the big names

12y ago

Hougigo

If Gonzalez beats Yaegashi, where does he rank P4P? If the Ring gave Segura love 3 years ago, they gotta give Roman some love. They probably won't move anybody from their list unless they lose... and at that, only the people in the second half of the list (6-10)

12y ago

tommyknocker

Ioka's team 2 years ago Ok. Thank you. a lot of good fights : Hernandez, Estrada, Segura, Yaegashi, Ioka, Gonzalez.... Shiming (:lol1:) Damn.

12y ago

VG_Addict

If Gonzalez beats Yaegashi, where does he rank P4P?

12y ago

LowBlowKO

Yeah Ioka wanted nothing to do with Chocolatito at the time, wanted more experience.

12y ago

Hougigo

Which fighter/team refused the fight?? Ioka's team 2 years ago

12y ago

tommyknocker

He should have Ioka on his resume, but his team were smart to turn him down. Only positive out of the negative is that they said out loud they weren't ready Which fighter/team refused the fight??

12y ago

Hougigo

He should have Ioka on his resume, but his team were smart to turn him down. Only positive out of the negative is that they said out loud they weren't ready

12y ago

sparkman0811

http://www.asianboxing.info/5/post/2014/03/roman-gonzalezs-opponent-for-ring-of-diamonds-named.html#comments As long as this sets up Yaegashi What a shock, another no name opponent. I seem to recall Valero and Linares got this same treatment when they were in Gonzalez position. All three were or are with Teikken.

12y ago