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Former World Champions Cosme
“Chino” Rivera and Miguel
“Titere” Vazquez will clash for
the vacant World Boxing
Federation (WBF) Mexican
Welterweight title on Friday
April 13 at the Parque
Revolucion in Rivera´s home-town
of Culiacan, Mexico.
Promoted by Promociones
Boxisticas Culiacan, the fight
headlines a show labelled “Honor
& Glory”, and will put the
winner in a position to
challenge for the WBF World
Welterweight title, currently
held by Bethuel Ushona from
Namibia, in the foreseeable
future.
Rivera, 43-24-3 (29), won the
WBF World Welterweight title in
2003 by defeating James Hare
(28-0-1) in England, and has
fought a regular who's-who of
the best Light Welterweights and
Welterweights of his generation.
Now 41 years old, and with a
long list of other titles on his
resume as well, he is still
going strong and coming off
victories in his two most recent
outings. But it would be quite
the Cinderella-story if he
manages to beat Vazques, ten
years the younger man, and
eventually get a crack at the
title he held fifteen years ago.
Guadalajara´s Miguel Vazquez,
39-6 (15), won and defended the
IBF World Lightweight title six
times between 2010 and 2014. As
tricky as they come, he was for
a long time very much avoided by
other world titlists, and never
got a chance to regain his
Lightweight crown.
Moving up in weight, he lost to
undefeated Scottish Light
Welterweight contender Josh
Taylor last November in
Edinburgh, and he is now looking
to get back on track towards
becoming world champion again in
yet another new weight class.
While the main event will either
see a local hero firmly
resurrect his career, or put his
rival back in the world
championship mix instead of
himself, “Honor Y Gloria” will
also feature a long line of
potential future stars, as the
undercard includes some of the
best local prospects in
interesting match-ups.
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