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By Cliff Rold - It’s arguably as good a support bout on paper as any pay-per-view main event has had since the Floyd Mayweather-Canelo Alvarez. That show gave fans Danny Garcia-Lucas Matthysse for their hard earned dollars. The stateside fanfare for the fighters here probably isn’t as high. The firework potential might be higher.
Next Saturday night (HBO PPV, 9 PM EST/6 PM PST), on the undercard of the middleweight unification fight between Gennady Golovkin (WBA) and David Lemieux (IBF), the flyweights take center stage.
On one side of the ring, Nicaragua’s 28-year old WBC and lineal 112 lb. king Roman Gonzalez (43-0, 37 KO). He’ll be attempting the third defense of his title and looking to defeat his eighth current, former, or future major titlist.
Already having won titles in three divisions, Gonzalez has answered plenty of questions since his first title win at 105 lbs. in 2008. He’s faced veterans, brawlers, boxer-punchers, and men with solid hand speed. It’s been enough for ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Ring Magazine to name him the best fighter in the world in the wake of Mayweather’s retirement.
One big question remains.
The man on the other side of the ring next weekend might be the one to ask, and answer, it.
34-year old former Olympian, two-division, and unified flyweight titlist Brian Viloria (36-4, 22 KO), has had his ups and downs. It kept him from meeting the hopes of being a new Michael Carbajal, an expansive lower division star for the US market. He’s done plenty on his own merits. Fourteen years after his professional debut, he remains a danger to anyone near his weight for what the old cliché says is the last thing to go. [Click Here To Read More]
Next Saturday night (HBO PPV, 9 PM EST/6 PM PST), on the undercard of the middleweight unification fight between Gennady Golovkin (WBA) and David Lemieux (IBF), the flyweights take center stage.
On one side of the ring, Nicaragua’s 28-year old WBC and lineal 112 lb. king Roman Gonzalez (43-0, 37 KO). He’ll be attempting the third defense of his title and looking to defeat his eighth current, former, or future major titlist.
Already having won titles in three divisions, Gonzalez has answered plenty of questions since his first title win at 105 lbs. in 2008. He’s faced veterans, brawlers, boxer-punchers, and men with solid hand speed. It’s been enough for ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Ring Magazine to name him the best fighter in the world in the wake of Mayweather’s retirement.
One big question remains.
The man on the other side of the ring next weekend might be the one to ask, and answer, it.
34-year old former Olympian, two-division, and unified flyweight titlist Brian Viloria (36-4, 22 KO), has had his ups and downs. It kept him from meeting the hopes of being a new Michael Carbajal, an expansive lower division star for the US market. He’s done plenty on his own merits. Fourteen years after his professional debut, he remains a danger to anyone near his weight for what the old cliché says is the last thing to go. [Click Here To Read More]
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