By Mark Eisner: Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez takes on Juan Francisco Estrada tonight in their trilogy match-up on DAZN in a 12-round bout at 115-lb a Matchroom Boxing card at the Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona. The main portion of the card will be streamed live on DAZN at 8:00 p.m. ET.
This is an important fight that the judges can’t afford to flub up like many believe they did in the Estrada vs. Chocolatitto rematch last year in March 2021.
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Many thought the four-division world champion Gonzalez (51-3, 41 KOs) was the better fighter than Estrada (43-3, 28 KOs) in their first two fights, particularly the second one last year.
Assuming we don’t get the same oddball scoring as last time these two fighters met, we should have a conclusive winner iether way.
Estrada looked pretty far gone in his last fight againt Argi Cortes in September, and he’s going to have to raise his game sevel levels not to get trounched by Chocolatito tonight.
Undercard:
Austin Williams vs. Simon Madsen
Marc Castro vs. Maickol Lopez Villagrana
Beatriz Ferreira vs. Carisse Brown
Anthony Herrera vs. Christian Sullivan
Julio Cesar Martinez vs. Samuel Carmona
Diego Pacheco vs. Adrian Luna
Joselito Velazquez vs. Cristofer Rosales
In the co-feature bout, the exciting WBC flyweight champion Julio Cesar Martinez (18-2, 14 KO) defends again Samuel Carmona (8-0, 4 KOs). This is the first fight back for Martinez since his loss a year ago to Chocolatito in an ill-advised bout.
“Chocolatito is so small and humble, but when he gets in there, he’s an animal and throws hundreds and hundreds of punches, and he’s done of the greatest fighters ever to exist. He’s in uneblievable shape as well,” said Eddie Hearn to iD Boxing about Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Boxing.
“I think you’re going to see the best of three fights. Obviously, we hype up fights because we believe they will deliver, but this is one that I generally believe will deliver big numbers.
“You don’t see as many stoppages in the lower weight classes. They do throw more punches and they do trade more and I think you’re going to see a ggeat one.
“[Julio Cesar] Martinez is in a tough fight against Carmona, a very tough fight,” said Hearn.
