Making history will have to wait for Marvin Sonsona. His anticipated greatness came to a halt at the hands of Wilfredo Vasquez,Jr. in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. There will be the expected post fight analyses which will surely be negative. There will be questions raised about whether 122 lbs is the right weight for him or whether he should have fought a tune-up fight before having another world title bout three months after losing the first one.
Sonsona is nineteen years old and suffered his first loss as a professional. For most boxers that should not be career-threatening. But Sonsona?s career did not exactly unravel like most boxers.
He won a world title in his 14th pro fight against a 48 fight veteran Jose ?Carita? Lopez and hailed as the second youngest Filipino world boxing champion. That?s like an actor winning an Oscar in his very first movie. What do you do for an encore?
The encore will have to wait.
Team Sonsona will have to pick up the pieces of a promising career that was shattered by Vasquez? punishing body attack in the fourth round. Marvin is the most talented boxer promoted by Sammy Gello-ani and trained by Nonito Donaire,Sr. But talent and destiny have once again conflicted with reality. The ending of the fight was eerily reminiscent of the first round knockout loss of another previously undefeated fighter, Ciso Morales at the hands of Fernando Montiel in a WBO bantamweight title fight held in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago.
Sonsona will have to take a long rest and re-evaluate his career as well as his personal life. The physical strain of fighting regularly as well as psychological burn out will have to be considered.
He will have to do some soul searching. There are questions only he can answer. But I?m sure it will not hurt Sonsona if he takes a break from boxing.
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