Oscar Collazo: record, next fight and profile →
Puerto Rico’s unified strawweight champion and top-10 pound-for-pound fighter Oscar Collazo has relinquished his WBO belt just hours before a purse bid for a fight with Japan’s interim champion Ryusei Matsumoto.
The WBO Monday ordered negotiations to begin between its full minimumweight champion Oscar Collazo and interim champion Ryusei Matsumoto. Collazo 15-0 (12 KOs) suffered a rib injury last month prior to his planned attempt to capture the unified flyweight title from Ricardo Sandoval, who was promptly upset by replacement opponent Sergio Mendoza on October 10 in Chicago.
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Oscar Collazo’s interest in moving up to challenge Ricardo Sandoval is genuine but Nedier Valdez proved no match
Mexico’s Neider Valdez, had no chance of making the 105-lbs weight limit for Saturday night’s DAZN main-event minimumweight title bout at Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California, Oscar Collazo weighed in Friday at 110.6 lbs while Valdez came in at 111.2 lbs.
Oscar Collazo speaks ahead of his latest world title defense as the unified minimumweight champion discusses his undisputed ambitions, future weight jumps, potential fights with Kenshiro Teraji and Ricardo Sandoval, the rise of the lower weight classes, and the financial advice he's received from Miguel Cotto.
Fighters like "Bam" Rodriguez and Oscar Collazo are heating up the lower weight divisions in boxing right now.
World Boxing Organization President, Gustavo Olivieri, has announced on X that the WBO has officially approved Mexican contender Neider Valdez to challenge WBO minimumweight champion Oscar Collazo in the main event this Saturday (June 20) at Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California, and live on DAZN.
Mexico’s Neider Valdez hasn’t won four of his past six bouts, and one of his victories came against an 0-1 opponent. Title-fight worthy? Hardly.