The president of the World Boxing Council, Dr. Jose Sulaiman Chagnon, enhanced today the strength of the current WBC light flyweight champion, Adrian “Confesor” Hernandez, who is about to make the second defense of the title against the Nicaraguan Yader Cardoza.This card was officially announced today by the president of Punch Sports Promotions, Sergio Cortes, who said: “This event will take place next Saturday May 11 at the Agustin Millan gym of the City of Toluca Mexico, and will be televised on “Corona Saturday’s” Channel 5 of Televisa 10:30 pm.
“Adrian Hernandez is one of the strongest WBC world champions, and this Saturday will be a tough test against Cardoza”, said Sulaiman.
Hernandez, who is from Toluca, State of Mexico said: “In each of my fights I get a large number of lessons and also learn from my mistakes. We will climb into the ring to give a great show, to enjoy the fans in the arena”. And added: “I will make the maximum number of defenses in the light flyweight division before thinking of moving to flyweight”.
This meeting was also attended by the American Ava “The lady of boxing” Knight, who is the WBC Diamond and Silver flyweight champion, and Linda “Muñeca” Soto, who will be her opponent in the co-main event of the great boxing card that has been called “Arde Toluca” (Toluca burns).
Ava said she was very happy to return to fight in Mexico, and told us about the training she did in the mountains of Big Bear, California, to defend the WBC Silver flyweight world title against Linda Soto.
The weigh-in will be open to the public next Friday May 10th at 11:00 am in the Alameda of the City of Toluca, Mexico.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
