FILIPINO BOXING NEWS FROM MEXICO FOR SEPY 24

PHILIPPINE pride boxing official Rey Danseco will work in another big and important championship fight overseas to make him as favorite to claim the back-to-back Boxing Judge of the Year award.
Danseco has arrived in Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico in time to work for another Filipino-Mexican war in the ring when the top two ranked contenders collide for the World Boxing Council (WBC) silver super flyweight title at the Plaza de Toros on Saturday (Sunday, Sept. 25 in Manila).

Number one contender and reigning WBC International super flyweight champion Silvester Lopez (16-3-1, 12 KOs), one of the top prospects from Bebot Elorde Stable, faces second ranked and defending champion Oscar “Ceviche” Ibarra (27-4, 18 KOs).

This will be Danseco’s fourth world championship assignment in three countries this year, including two WBC super bantamweight and super featherweight title bouts in Japan and the latest was in Montreal, Canada last May for the WBC light heavyweight title bout between Bernard “Executioner” Hopkins and Jean Pascal.

Danseco, who got the 2010 Boxing of the Year award last March 25 during the 11th Gabriel “Flash” Elorde Boxing Awards-Banquet of Champions at Sofitel Philippine Plaza, favored the more aggressive and hardhitting Hopkins as well as the judges from Thailand and Italy, making the 46-year old American the oldest world boxing champion in history.

Whoever wins in Lopez-Ibarra title bout will become the new interim champion of the division and will get the right to challenge the new WBC super flyweight champion Suriyan Sor Rungvisai of Thailand.
The supervisor in the scheduled 12-round contest will be American Bob Yalen of Connecticut, USA while the referee is also American Gerald Ritter from Mustang, Oklahoma.
Two other Filipino boxers are slated to fight in the card dubbed “Doble Impacto” (Double Impact).

Tagbilaran City’s Ricky Sismundo and another Elorde warrior, Juanito Rubillar fights against hardhitting Mexican prospects.

Sismundo tries to dethrone WBC Youth World super featherweight champion Dante Jardon while Rubillar (48-17-7, 23 KOs), a world record holder with 8-time world title fights, fights newly-crowned Mexican flyweight champ Edgar “Power” Jimenez (13-5-1, 10 KOs).