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Triple boxing world champion Nicaraguan "El Chocolatito" to face Mexican former champion

Xinhua, December 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Former boxing world champion, Mexico's Giovanni Segura, may not travel to Panama for a fight due to the possibility that he may be able to face three time world champion Roman "El Chocolatito" Gonzalez from Nicaragua instead between January and March, 2016, announced an official sports source on Wednesday. 

   Segura is going to wait for the possibility to face "El Chocolatito" Gonzalez in February or March 2016 as obviously everyone wants to come up against the world's best boxer, according to Fernando Beltran, director of Latin America's leading boxing channel Zanfer.

   According to the Mexican television company, Segura is no longer thinking about travelling to Panama for his fight against Luis "Nica" Concepcion, the interim champion in the World Boxing Association's (WBA) super flyweight category, on Dec. 17 as his sights are now set on the possibility of facing Gonzalez. 

   Segura "wanted to go to Panama but now this possibility has opened up, and who wouldn't want to fight Floyd Mayweather's successor?" Beltran, a boxing promoter from Mexico's northern state of Tijuana, told the online edition of local sports newspaper La Nueva Radio Ya.

   The Mexican former world champion, who won the title in the light flyweight category in 2011, promised to "rob" Gonzalez of his scepter mid-2015 when the two men met in combat.  

   In October, "El Chocolatito" Gonzalez, reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) champion in the 112 pounds flyweight category, defeated Hawaian boxer Brian Viloria.  Endi