WBC Lines Up Gonzalez-Estrada 3 And Sor Rungvisai-Cuadras 2 Winners To Face Off boxinginsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from boxinginsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Ancajas (32-1-2, 22 KO) will face long-waiting mandatory challenger Jonathan Rodriguez (22-1, 16 KO), a 25-year-old Mexican whose best win came in June 2019 over Felipe Orucuta. He fought in December, tuning up with a first round knockout win over Julian Yedras in Monterrey, Mexico.
Ancajas, 29, won the IBF belt in 2016, beating McJoe Arroyo, and has made eight successful defenses, but has never gotten into the mix with the top 115-pound fighters in the world, unfortunately becoming something of an afterthought compared to those really sign as the best in the division like Juan Francisco Estrada, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, Chocolatito Gonzalez, and Kazuto Ioka, who also hasn’t fought any of the other three but has years of multi-division title reigns to bolster his resume.
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Posted on 03/15/2021
By: Hans Themistode
Roman Gonzalez didn’t want to sound like a sore loser immediately after. The future Hall of Famer respects the judge’s decision to hand the victory to Juan Francisco Estrada this past weekend but he vehemently disagrees with the result.
Both Estrada and Gonzalez battled it out at the American Airlines Center in Dallas Texas, in front of a sparse crowd. Those who were watching were mostly acrimonious as Estrada was given the split decision victory.
For Gonzalez, he could care less about the official decision this weekend, much like their first contest in which Gonzalez was handed the win, he believes he’s 2-0 against his long-time rival.
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