Miguel Berchelt: record, next fight and profile →
Orlando "Siri" Salido (44-13-4, 31 KOs) is not intimidated by what World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt (32-1, 28 KOs) has displayed in the ring in the last twelve months. Salido said he has the experience and weapons to unseat the young fighter who is coming up in the ranks to make a big name for himself in 2017.
BoxingScene.com has been informed by Sean Gibbons, who advises Orlando Salido, that a fight between his boxer and fellow Mexican, WBC super featherweight world champion Miguel Berchelt, has been signed, sealed and delivered for December 9th. "Both fighters have agreed to the fight and HBO agreed to televise it and what you have here is real Mexican boxing, two of the top 130-pounders in the world going at it," said Gibbons on Thursday afternoon, while in Mexico, to BoxingScene.com.
As BoxingScene.com reported last week, there are ongoing discussions for Miguel Berchelt of Mexico to make the second defense of his WBC super featherweight world title against his countryman, former world champion Orlando Salido. According to World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman, his organization was advised that Berchelt vs. Salido was being negotiated for a date in December.
If all goes well, Miguel Berchelt could be making the second defense of the World Boxing Council super featherweight title against ex-champion Orlando 'Siri' Salido in the first quarter of 2018 in California, according to the information provided Mexican promoter Fernando Beltran, who works with both boxers. The boss of Zanfer Promociones said that they still expect to make some moves before setting down the next defense for Berchelt, while Salido will be lined up for a stay busy fight in the month of November against a Puerto Rican fighter in New York.
So coming off his dominant seventh-round stoppage of Miguel Marriaga on Saturday night in Los Angeles, what's next for WBO super featherweight titlist, Vasyl Lomachenko (9-1, 7 KO's)? "He's coming back in December," promoter Bob Arum told a group of reporters in the immediate aftermath of his latest exhibition of boxing skill at the Microsoft Theater. Now, the question is just who he will be paired up with.
World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight champion Miguel 'Alacran' Berchelt (32-1, 28 KOs) will likely not fight again for the remainder of 2017, because he was diagnosed with an injury to his right hand. The injury took place during the sixth round of his recent defense against Japan's Takashi Miura on July 15 in California.
A week after his big win over Japanese slugger Takashi Miura, Mexico's Miguel Berchelt (32-1, 28 KOs) - who holds the World Boxing Council super featherweight championship - is still savoring the honeys of victory, and is confident that he will make the best choice for his future Berchelt is very interested in the idea of ??returning to fight again in the United States, as part of another HBO televised card - but he also likes the idea of fighting in Mexico in order to introduce himself as a world champion to his countrymen.
Six months ago, most boxing fans weren’t all that familiar with Miguel Berchelt. Now that he has beaten former champions Francisco Vargas and Takashi Miura in back-to-back bouts, Berchelt believes he has made a credible case for becoming the fighter to beat in a super featherweight division that includes WBO champion Vasyl Lomachenko and IBF champion Gervonta Davis.
HBO’s broadcast of the Miguel Berchelt-Takashi Miura main event Saturday night peaked at 729,000 viewers, according to ratings released Tuesday morning by Nielsen Media Research. Their 12-round, 130-pound title fight, which Berchelt won convincingly, drew an average viewership of 683,000. The overall viewership represented an increase from Berchelt’s HBO debut on January 28.
It’s not often a near shutout also gives the fans a great show, answers character questions about the winner, and leaves one with even more respect for the defeated. Most shutouts are the sort of one-sided that ends up a little dull. While all out war never broke out on Saturday night, both WBC 130 lb. titlist Miguel Berchelt and Takashi Miura both had to be feeling it on Sunday morning.