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VILORIA FACES TOUGHER OMAR SOTO IN REMATCH INSTEAD OF DANNY FLORES By Ronnie Nathanielsz PhilBoxing.com Thu, 16 Jul 2015  Former two division world champion Brian Viloria who was scheduled to face Mexico?s Danny Flores in a ?stay busy? fight at the Forentine Gardens in Hollywood, California on July 25 will now face the much tougher Omar ?Lobito? Soto in a rematch instead. The clash with the 35 year old Soto is certain to test Viloria on whether he is ready for a rematch with Juan Francisco Estrada, the talented Mexican who captured Viloria?s WBO and WBA flyweight titles via a twelve round split decision in Macau on April 6, 2013. Soto has a record of 23-11-2 with 15 knockouts but his record can be somewhat misleading. Soto dropped a ten round split decision to Viloria on July 10, 2010 but won the Fecarbox flyweight title with a unanimous twelve round decision over Eduardo Gonzalez on July 23, 2011. Soto was out of his depth when he faced undefeated Roman Gonzalez, the current No. 2 on the Ring Magazine pound for pound list and lost by a 2nd round knockout in a WBA title fight on October 1, 2011 but came back to beat Glenn Domaire, the brother of Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire to win the WBC Latino title with a twelve round unanimous decision. According to boxrec.com Soto last fought on September 7, 2013 and lost by a 9th round knockout in a scheduled ten round bout to Toshiyuki Igarashi after losing by a 2nd round TKO to Ulises Lara in a battle for the vacant Mexican flyweight crown on March 1, 2013. Viloria who has won three fights in a row since his loss to Juan Franciso Estrada in a fight where Viloria out-boxed the Mexican in the first five rounds but then made the mistake of trying to slug it out with Estrada and dropped a close split decision told the New Standard/boxingmorror.com that he?s been ?training hard at the Wild Card Gym under boxer/trainer ?Speedy? Gonzalez? until his regular trainer and Freddie Roach?s assistant Marvin Somodio returns to LA. Viloria said training has been ?very good and I feel great but I can?t look past this fight? which will now be against Soto ad not Flores. The 34 year old Viloria has a record of 35-4 with 21 knockouts and still believes he has it in him to become a world champion once again. In the Soto fight Viloria was in control in the first five rounds working behind the jab and occasional solid rights but Soto came on beginning round six and took the fight to Viloria, often trying to bully him with shots to the body and head as Viloria danced out of trouble and continued to flick the left jab to keep Soto at bay. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Ronnie Nathanielsz.  |
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