With a little over a month for his unification fight against Juan Francisco Estrada, the World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Flyweight Super Champion, Nicaraguan Román González, is getting ready in Coachella, United States, and feels better than ever for the highly anticipated fight on March 13th at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
“Chocolatito” has had a great recovery in his career to regain the 115-pound belt, and now he will have his second fight against Estrada, current WBC champion, whom he already defeated in 2012.
There have been many temperature changes in Coachella during his preparation, as Román told journalist Miguel Ángel Cerebros in an interview. However, he doesn’t think that’s a problem for him.
“Obviously when it’s very hot it helps me lose weight faster, but now that it’s a little cold it’s not harmful either, I feel normal, comfortable. I decided to train here because in my country there are many distractions that are not convenient for my career,” said the champion of the pioneer organization.
On March 13th, he will have to stop the scale at 115 pounds to fight Estrada, and González feels comfortable with his weight at the moment.
“I’m currently at 127 pounds, I’m staying at that weight because of the sparring I’m doing. The idea is to go down progressively, eating until the day of the weigh-in. I usually go down without wearing myself out too much”, added “Chocolatito”.
The unification rematch between González and Estrada is one of the most interesting fights in the coming months and expectations are high. Roman is 33 years old and comes in with 50 wins, 2 losses, and 41 KOs.
This time he can’t afford to trade punches with Estrada head on. Good luck Chocolatito!
I like to watch both of these fighters. I can’t help but pull for Gonzalez but I think this time he doesn’t have enough left in the tank to deal with Estrada.
Estrada is the fresher and better fighter this time. Chocolatito is a fading star that will offer a hell of a fight against Estrada, but gradually he will be overwhelmed until being stopped in the late rounds. Miracles happen in boxing, I hope one of them this time, because I want to see Gonzalez winning this fight.
Great fight!
The best fighting the best!
I believe it’ll be a 12 round War, tactical at times, with full stanzas of back and forth punishment.
May the best man win!
I think this may end up being Chocolatito’s last fight, win or lose, but I sure am hoping he can pull it together one more time and get the win. Either way, it should be an excellent one.
The winner needs to fight Wisaksil Wangek, even tho he destroyed Chocolatito the second time.
I think is completely the opposite, Rungvisai is in obscurity at this point and need a marquee fight to be relevant again.
Yo Arturo, in respectful response to your post…
You do know that both Chocolatito and Estrada have already fought him, right?
I’m sure you do. Everyone knows that.
So…… why would either of them “need” to fight him?
How bout we open the playing field and allow other top fighters to compete?
No “need” to keep the division locked up by the top 3 fighters doing “rockin robbins” with each other for the foreseeable future…
IMO.
I could be wrong but I think Rungvisai is already set to fight the winner. He also seems set with that as he has a fight scheduled for the exact same day as Gonzalez – Estrada 2. Wouldn’t mind seeing him in against Ioka though.
chocolatito is a very exciting fighter, can’t wait for this one
Should be concerned about someone that small losing that much weight-really a heavy featherweight trying to squeeze down into the bantamweight class.
Featherweight fighters walk weighing around 140 pounds. 115 pounders walk weighing at least 10 more pounds, and on fight night they normally enter the ring at 122 or 125. So, is completely normal what Gonzalez says about his weight. Different is the case of other boxers that gain up to 50 or more pounds when not fighting, like Hatton or Broner for instance.
I don’t think it’s too bad. The other article about the Japan exhibition mentions Inoue saying that he was 137lbs and he fights at 118.
pulling for chocolatito