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Daniel Ponce de Leon, the hard-hitting southpaw, will be
fighting for the word title against the reigning and defending WBC featherweight
world champion Johnny
Gonzalez at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United
States.
This match-up is De
Leon’s second chance to be become a world champion. As
per World Boxing News, De Leon told,
“I want to be a world champion once more, I have been looking for this fight for a long time and I won’t waste this second shot, I don’t want it to be a last chance at the title sort of thing.”
De Leon 43–4–0 (KO 35), a former WBO
Super Bantamweight Champion, is the vanquisher of two prominent boxers, Gerry Penalosa
and Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista.
Penalosa at that
time aimed to become a world champion again but lost in a decision many thought
he won. In Penalosa’s succeeding fight, he finally got another world title in
the expense of Johnny Gonzalez.
On the other hand,
Bautista was then a young 20-year-old promising fighter thought to be following
the footstep of Manny Pacquiao. De Leon denied Bautista’s dream to become a
world champion knocking him out in the very first round.
Since then Bautista
has been fighting for International titles, and unable to secure another title
fight in the world stage.