FILIPINO fight fans will get a real insight into Mexican flyweight and former world light flyweight champion Edgar Sosa, who will be the first world-ranked flyweight to face former World Boxing Organization light flyweight champion Donnie Nietes.
The longest-reigning Filipino world champion, who has relinquished his title to move up to 112 pounds and face some of the big names in the flyweight division, is stepping up training at the Wild Card Gym of Hall-of-Fame trainer Freddie Roach in preparation for the Sosa showdown.
Down the road, Nietes is hopeful he fights WBO/WBA champion Juan Francisco Estrada and pound-for-pound No.1 Roman “Chocolatio” Gonzalez.
This week’s special to be telecast over Pinoy Boy Office/Sky Cable at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, with a replay at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, will include a pre-departure interview with Nietes and trainer Edmund Villamor, plus his ninth-round demolition of mandatory challenger Moises Fuentes, whom he dropped three times to seal a knockout victory at the Mall of Asia Arena.
The show will showcase Sosa’s eighth-round TKO victory over veteran Southpaw Juanito Rubillar in a title on Nov. 29, 2008 and another eighth-round TKO over Japan’s Takashi Kunishige in Mexico City.
But perhaps the most impressive performance of the veteran Sosa was against another former world champion Ulises Solis on March 9, 2013 in Guadalajara, Mexico.
There will also be a brief report on the decision of five-division world champion Nonito Donaire and his father/trainer Dodong Donaire, who claimed there were no problems between the two like before.
The elder Donaire wanted to return to his family in California and didn’t wish to stay in Las Vegas and train his son for a planned title defense against unbeaten Jessie Magdaleno sometime later this year.