Roman Gonzalez: record, next fight and profile →
According to Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez, he is likely not participating on the Cinco de Mayo event that will showcase IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin defending his belt against Armenian Vanes Martirosyan at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Mexican veteran Pedro 'Pedrin' Guevara is being lined up to face four division world champion Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez as part of the card being headlined by middleweight king Gennady Golovkin on May 5 in Las Vegas. Sources close to the negotiations revealed to ESPN Deportes that they had already reached an agreement for a 10-round fight in the super flyweight division, but the announcement would come until after Golovkin announced a finalized opponent for the Cinco de Mayo date.
Although he still does not have a finalized opponent, the four division world champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez still has hopes of fighting on May 5 in Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of the undercard that will be headlined by middleweight king Gennady Golovkin against an opponent to be determined.
Former four division world champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez will hold the next phase of his training camp in Costa Rica, lasting approximately one month, confirms his manager Carlos Blandon. Roman has had more than a month of training at the Roger Deshon gym in Nicaragua, supervised by Gustavo Herrera and Alfredo Corrales. He currently weighs under 130 pounds and is said to be in great shape.
WBA super flyweight champion Kal Yafai is still hoping to face former four division world champion Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez. Yafai has no problem with heading over to the United States to take that fight. Gonzalez has yet to return to the ring after suffering back to back defeats to current WBC super flyweight world champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai. The Thai puncher won a twelve round unanimous decision over Gonzalez last March, and then knocked him out cold in the fourth round of their September rematch.
INGLEWOOD - Donnie Nietes made easy work of mandatory challenger Juan Carlos Reveco, stopping him in the seventh round, successfully defending his IBF flyweight title. It was all Nietes from the opening bell, outboxing the Argentine fighter by throwing and landing combinations to the head and body.
Former four division world champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez was an interested observer on Saturday night, as he watched two of his past opponents collide in the ring. At The Forum in Los Angeles, California, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai retained his WBC super flyweight world title with a twelve round majority decision win over Juan Francisco "El Gallo" Estrada.
Surprisingly, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) placed Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez in the number one position in the 115-pound rankings in January. It is not necessary to be a scholar in the matter to understand that the move of the organization is due to the heavy interest in having Gonzalez fight for that title after Japanese star Naoya Inoue dropped the belt for a move to bantamweight, where he is likely going to face World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Jamie McDonnell.
The team behind former four division world champion Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez is very interested in a showdown against Filipino veteran Donnie Nietes for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) super flyweight world title, according to statement coming from vice mayor of Managua, Enrique Armas. If a deal can get done, the fight would be targeted for a date in June and the vice mayor would like for the contest to take place at the modern Alexis Argüello Sports Center in Managua, Nicaragua.
Carlos Blandon, manager of former four division world champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez, says his boxer's return to the ring is being pushed back to the month of May. Initially the fight was going to land on a date in April, but now it's being pushed back a little and may even land on the undercard to the highly anticipated rematch between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin, which takes place on May 5th.