SYLVESTER LOPEZ TITLE DEFENSE ON IBC TONIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 07 Feb 2011
The WBC super flyweight title defense of Sylvester ?Silver? Lopez against Juan Jose ?Goofy? Montes of Mexico will be telecast at 8:00 p.m. today over IBC 13.
The fight also served as a title eliminator.
The telecast was made possible by promoter Gabriel ?Bebot? Elorde Jr and will be aired on Viva S ports popular boxing show ?The Main Event?.
The 23 year old Lopez, a prot?g? of Elorde won the title with an 8th round TKO over Jong Nam Park of Korea on April 5, 2009 and successfully defended the crown against Katsumi Makiyama of Japan via a 5th round TKO on November 28, 2009.
21 year old Montes, the WBC Youth world super flyweight champion won the title with a 2nd round knockout over Jose Salgado on October 3, 2009 and beat Filipino Fernando Lunacad in a lopsided ten round decision to retain the title on November 28, 2009.
In his last fight on June 19, 2010 ?Goofy? Montes scored a 4th round TKO over another Filipino, Richard Garcia.
The Lopez-Montes fight was held at the Coliseo Olympico in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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