Srisaket Sor Rungvisai: record, next fight and profile →
By Thomas Gerbasi - When it comes to the story of Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, one of the lasting touchstones is the time when the future WBC super flyweight champion walked 60 miles to Bangkok in search of a job. Even imagining a trek like that is hard to comprehend, but you would assume that it’s during such a...
This Saturday night an enticing trio of bouts in the super flyweight class takes place from the Stub Hub Center in Carson, California that is headlined by the rematch between WBC champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez, who battled over twelve grueling rounds back on March 18th with the Thai boxer getting his hands raised in victory.
World Boxing Council super flyweight champion, Thai Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, is already in Los Angeles, prepared to defend his crown on the dot, against Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez, this Saturday at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. According to the champion, Roman will try to make fine tuning modifications in his style to regain his championship, but ...by the way Srisaket is working on his very own anticipated and unexpected strategy, to neutralize the Nicaraguan.
LOS ANGELES, CA - WBC Super Flyweight World Champion SRISAKET SOR RUNGVISAI, (42-4-1, 38 KO’s), of Si Sa Ket, Thailand and former WBC Super Flyweight Champion ROMAN “CHOCOLATITO” GONZALEZ, (46-1-0, 38 KO’s), both weighed in within the required WBC 7-day weight limit ahead of their highly anticipated rematch set for Saturday, September 9 from the legendary StubHub Center in Carson, California and televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark beginning at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT.
WBC Super Flyweight World Champion SRISAKET SOR RUNGVISAI, (42-4-1, 38 KO’s), of Si Sa Ket, Thailand and former WBC Super Flyweight Champion ROMAN “CHOCOLATITO” GONZALEZ, (46-1-0, 38 KO’s), both weighed in within the required WBC 30-day weigh limit ahead of their highly anticipated rematch set for Saturday, September 9 from the legendary StubHub Center in Carson, California and televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark beginning at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT.
Carlos "Principe" Cuadras (36-1-1, 27 KO's), former world champion of the World Boxing Council, has stated that this September 9th, his goal is to beat Juan Francisco " Gallo "Estrada (35-2, 25 KO's) and then wait for the result between Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez and Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, to discover who he fights for the crown.
Roman Gonzalez Video Interview - HBO BOXING AFTER DARK presents a must-see tripleheader featuring the four top-ranked super flyweights in the world when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: SRISAKET SOR RUNGVISAI VS. ROMAN “CHOCOLATITO” GONZALEZ AND NAOYA INOUE VS. ANTONIO NIEVES AND CARLOS CUADRAS VS. JUAN FRANCISCO ESTRADA is seen SATURDAY, SEPT. 9 at 10:15 p.m. (ET/PT) from StubHub Center in Carson, Cal. The HBO Sports team will call all the action, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino.
While HBO Sports is distributing the September 16th middleweight showdown between middleweight ruler Gennady Golovkin and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, the centerpiece of their upcoming schedule on the actual network takes place the week before at the StubHub Center in Carson, California where a trio of super flyweight bouts are being highlighted by the network.
By Thomas Gerbasi - The resume of Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez ensures that he will never have to resort to trash talk or hyperbole to promote a fight. But if anything was needed to sell his September 9 rematch with Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, the Nicaraguan took care of that with one sentence as he insists that the second b...
Back on March 18th at the Madison Square Garden in New York, Roman Gonzalez lost his WBC super flyweight title to Wisakil Wangek (also known as Srisaket Sor Rungvisai) by the scores of 114-112 (twice) and 113-113. Most observers believed 'Chocolatito' had done more than enough in the second half of the contest to retain his title. Instead, the tough Thai fighter saw his hands raised in victory.