Consensus #1 Pound-for-Pound Fighter in the World and World Boxing Council (WBC) Super Flyweight Champion ROMAN “CHOCOLATITO” GONZALEZ, (46-0-0, 38 KO’s), fighting out of Managua, Nicaragua, will defend his title against Mandatory Challenger SRISAKET SOR RUNGVISAI (41-4-1, (38 KO’s) of Si Sa Ket, Thailand, on Saturday, March 18, 2017, at “The Mecca of Boxing”, Madison Square Garden.
By Eric Baldwin: WBC World super flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-0, 38 KOs) will be defending his title against former WBC champion Carlos Cuadras (35-1-1, 27 KOs) in a rematch in March, according to World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman. This is great news for the fans, because the previous Gonzalez-Cuadras fight was an all-out brawl for 12 rounds.
Gonzalez, 29, defeated Cuadras by a 12 round unanimous decision on September 10 on HBO Championship Boxing in an exciting fight at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Despite suffering a lot of facial swelling at the hands of the younger, bigger and stronger Cuadras, Gonzalez was able to prevail in winning by the scores 115-113, 116-112 and 117-111.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC super flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-0, 38 KOs) has officially retained his No.1 pound-for-pound spot despite a heavy push by the promoters of last Saturday’s fight between Sergey Kovalev vs. Andre Ward. Ring Magazine reports that Gonzalez, 28, has kept his No.1 pound-for-pound spot with Ward moving up from No.4 to No.2.
Apparently, Ward’s 12 round unanimous decision win over Kovalev wasn’t “conclusive enough,” according to RingTV for Ward to be given the No.1 spot in the pound for pound ratings. It’s not surprising though. There are clearly too many boing fans out there who think that Kovalev deserved the win for Ward to be given the No.1 spot just yet.
By Michael Montero: Saturday September 10th featured three signature fights between six fighters representing five different countries. Four of these combatants brought undefeated professional careers into the ring with them; two “0’s” had to go.Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, of Kazakhstan, put his middleweight titles on the line against Kell “Special K” Brook, of England, inside London’s O2 Arena before a raucous sellout crowd.
By Dan Ambrose: World Boxing Council World super flyweight champion Carlos “Principe” Cuadras (35-1-1, 27 KOs) wasn’t too happy at losing his WBC 115lb belt to unbeaten pound-for-pound star Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, (46-0-0, 38KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night at The Forum in Inglewood, California. The hulking Cuadras, who looked like a featherweight in the ring last Saturday, claimed that he should have been given the decision by the judges.
The judges scored the fight 117-111, 116-112 and 115-113. I had Gonzalez winning eight rounds to four. I couldn’t give Cuadras many of the later rounds of the fight because he looked like he was tired and unable to stand and fight the smaller Gonzalez.
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten World Boxing Council flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, (46-0, 38 KOs) successfully moved up in weight to defeat the MUCH bigger and heavier WBC super flyweight champion Carlos “Principe” Cuadras (35-1-1, 27 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision to capture his WBC 115lb title on Saturday night on HBO Championship Boxing from The Forum in Inglewood, California.
By Dan Ambrose: Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (45-0, 38 KOs) will be getting the lion’s share of the loot tonight in his title challenge against World Boxing Council World super flyweight champion Carlos “Principe” Cuadras (35-0-1, 27 KOs) on HBO from The Forum in Inglewood, California.
Gonzalez will be getting a guaranteed $400,000 compared to Cuadras’ $250,000. The money reflects Gonzalez’s still greater star power right now. Whether that is sustainable or not for the unbeaten 29-year-old Nicaraguan Gonzalez will be partially determined in how he performs tonight against the much larger looking 28-year-old Cuadras.
By Allan Fox: World Boxing Council World super flyweight champion Carlos “Principe” Cuadras (35-0-1, 27 KOs) successfully made weight on Friday in coming in at 114.8 pounds for his title defense against former three vision world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (45-0, 38 Kos) for their fight on Saturday night on HBO Championship Boxing from The Forum, in Inglewood, California. Gonzalez, 29, weighed in at 114.6.
By Gerardo Granados: After have witnessed a couple of horrendous robberies at the summer Olympics, now we the fight fans, will get ready to continue our boxing year. With at least three bouts worth of attention on this month, because one of those could be able to challenge the Francisco Vargas versus Orlando Salido fight of the year award.
No, I am not talking about the most hyped, nor the most publicized by major media, even less I am referring of two upcoming bouts that have the potential to end with the knockout of the year award, due that those are also in contention for the mismatch of the year.
HBO Boxing presents day-night action from two continents, highlighted by a pair world championship fights featuring two of the sport’s top pound-for-pound performers, when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: GENNADY GOLOVKIN VS. KELL BROOK AND ROMAN “CHOCOLATITO” GONZALEZ VS. CARLOS CUADRAS AND YOSHIHIRO KAMEGAI VS. JESUS SOTO KARASS 2 is seen SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, first at 5:30 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from London and then at 10:00 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from Inglewood, Cal., exclusively on HBO. 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.