Chris John May Defend WBA Title in Mexico in February

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WBA featherweight champ Chris John (42-0, 22KOs) may defend his title in Monterrey, Mexico at the end of February. Mexican promoter Ignacio Huízar tells ESTO that John is interested in coming to Mexico to defend his crown. The fought would come against the winner of the upcoming bout between Mexican featherweights Ernesto Morales (17-3, 9KOs) and Fernando Torres (10-5, 9KOs). [details]

just come to america already!!!!

[Dice]

Chris makes a trillion defenses against no named overmatched opponents, and while he did good against Marquez, I felt Marquez won and would beat him in a rematch thats never going to happen

[SAN D13GO VILLAN]

oh trust me i know. but these guy insists he is the voice of mexico I was talking to another poster the other day and he was telling me how boxing was just as alive as it's ever been and that gyms are opening up everywhere. He also mentioned a fight that took place in his town and i tink it was rojas i'll look it up i can't remember but he said the place was sold out and standing room only.

It aint Dead In Crazy ass Tijuas thats for sure! Pretty much all Mexican fighters come to tijuana since it's right next to the states.

[giacomino]

So John is either going to defend against a 37-year-old Morales, who is ranked 84th by boxrec, or Torres, who has a frickin' 10-5 record and has been kayoed in three of his 15 fights. Nice opposition for the world's so-called top featherweight. Once again John crawls under a rock to find an opponent. What a turd

[jowee]

Gamoba is ranked right under Chris John I wanna see him step it up again too. Or Steve Luevano

i agree, why not take on world ranked featherweights--let me include jorge solis.

[Ryn0]

kidnappings

lolololol!

[Guest]

Ryno above has probably seen John fight live and he can probably attest to the fact that John is a very quick skilled fighter.

The way I see it, despite his undefeated resume and WBA strap, he's not really a name here, and I don't know how much interest there would be in him fighting unless someone with a name like Rocky Juarez fought him to generate some money.
Ideally him or someone like Luevano would fight him because Gamboa and Linares bailed out of the division but he just seems like a big risk no reward type fight for anyone. I am sure he generates good money in Indonesia but not really here or in Mex.
I could be wrong, but that seems to be one of the better explanations of why this hasn't happened sooner.
I mean right or wrong, and it was a close fight, look what happened to JMM.
And JMM made a whopping 30k for his efforts in that fight.

I sincerely hope John fights in Mex or the USA or hell even the UK, and takes on quality opposition here. He did beat Enoki in Japan and that guy was pretty well rated.
I have stories before about him coming to Mexico, I believe it was last year but those fights didn't pan out so I won't hold my breath on it, and just expect that his next title defense will be in Japan or Jakarta.

[ANDROID_DOES]

It aint Dead In Crazy ass Tijuas thats for sure! Pretty much all Mexican fighters come to tijuana since it's right next to the states.

yeah i know it's not dead anywhere in mexico hyperion is a clown. Never seen a so called "mexican" that "lives" in mexico bash mexico so much.

[dusnora]

CJ will be the best featherweight of all time

Just like Calzaghe, doubt by many boxing observer.
See know, he beat all the US Legend and Still Undefeated.

Time will tell for CJ. He will beat Pacman, if the fight is going to happen after CJ become the undisputed featherweight.

Today contender who consider can beat CJ is Yuriarkis Gamboa. I cant hardly wait to see this fight.

[toluco]

Well according to the mexican abasador Hyperion boxings is dead in mexico and no one gives a **** about it. The only way people will go is if they have nothing to do and its free.

it aint dead mate
here in the df the people sold out a 20000 thousand seat arena for the sosa vs unknown pinoy fight
and the prices were very high specially for mexican standars