PE?ALOSA-PONCE DE LEON REMATCH IN MANILA
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 23 Oct 2007
Golden Boy Promotions Oscar De La Hoya says they are working out details of a rematch between WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Pe?alosa and WBO super bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon to be staged in the Philippines next year.
In an overseas telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today, De La Hoya said ?obviously we want to do a fight in the Philippines with Pe?alosa and Ponce De Leon and we are shooting for February next year.?
At the same time the ?Golden Boy? of boxing said they had an open slot in the Floyd Mayweather Jr-Ricky Hatton fight on December 8 but despite reports that the Pe?alosa-Ponce De Leon rematch would be on the undercard, De La Hoya said it won?t happen and the menacing Mexican will see action against another opponent who has not been named as yet.
De La Hoya said he can ?understand? why Penalosa wants a rematch with Ponce De Leon. He maintained ?it was such a great fight the first time and Gerry Pe?alosa is a very experienced and well-skilled fighter.? The three judges scored the fight in a lopsided manner but many boxing writers and fans said it was much closer and that Penalosa had shown he could outbox the hard-hitting champion even though Pe?alosa had to move up in weight.
The owner of the world?s premier promotional company alongside Bob Arum?s Top Rank Promotions said a title fight featuring world-ranked super flyweight Z ?The Dream? Gorres was also ?absolutely? one of the possibilities since they were ?going to continue working with the Filipino fighters because we believe in the Filipino fighters and Gorres is one of them.?
De La Hoya mentioned the possibility of a Gorres title shot against recently crowned IBF champion Dimitri Kirilov who won the vacant crown with a unanimous twelve round decision over Jose Navarro in Moscow. The fight was on the undercard of the heavyweight battle between Sultan Ibragimov and Evander Holyfield which was telecast from Moscow by the giant Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN with whom Golden Boy is working very closely.
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