By REY DANSECO
LOS ANGELES, California – WBC rated number 37 Roilo Golez will move up to flyweight to get another chance of winning a title.
GOLEZ
Golez (13-7, 5 KOs) is the substitute of his fellow Filipino, former WBC silver flyweight champ Edrin Dapudong, to face former WBC light flyweight champ and reigning WBC International flyweight king Edgar Sosa (43-7, 26 KOs) in Ricardo Maldonado’s boxing show on Jan. 7 at the newly remodeled Foro Polanco (Polanco Forum) along Moliere Avenue in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
The fight, scheduled for 12 rounds, will be the first clash between Filipino and Mexican prizefighters, this year.
The 24-year old pride of Maco town in Compostela Valley province in southern Philippines was able to win the WBC Asian Boxing Council minimumweight title with TKO win in round 10 over Thongthailek Sor Tanapinyo last July 8 in Krathumbean, Samut Sakhon, Thailand.
But Golez failed twice in as many attempt to win a title outside of his fighting weight.
SOSA
The gutsy but inexperienced Asian lost in his first crack in any title in his career. WBC Youth World light flyweight champ Yodmongkol Vor Saengthep beat him with unanimous decision last May in Bangkok, five months before Mexican Sammy Gutierrez stopped him in the fifth round in their bout for the vacant WBC Silver light flyweight title in Puebla last October.
Rey Danseco is the Boxing Judge of the Year 2010 in the Philippines at the 11th Gabriel ”Flash” Elorde Memorial Boxing Awards-Banquet of Champions in March 2011. Aside from being one of the most active boxing judges from Asia, he is the Sports editor of one of the Philippine leading newspapers called Bagong Tiktik (Spy) and television boxing commentator.
EMAIL: reydanseco@yahoo.com
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