Lucas is Walter's younger brother and has some ties to Golden Boy Promotions. I've seen him a handful of times on Spanish Networks, and he's more technically sound than his brother and packs a similar punch. Yeah, two fights ago he was nearly stopped in one round by a journeyman and in his last fight he was carried out on a stretcher after a clash of heads.
Yordan is out according to the scene. No doubt his replacement won't be as good. 126lbers that could step in to fight Ponce? Or indeed fighters you think should replace Yordan.
Yeah sky'll be on air at 2am, and HBO start an hour later, so presumably we'll have an extra live fight the yanks won't get.
Yordan pulled out because he weren't getting enough? Clown. He could've won and would've won IMO and got a lot of recognition. What about Piriyapinyo? Probs a bit green but its about time he stepped up as he certainly is a talented but isn't going to progress defending his 'WBC Asian boxing council' belt another 20 times against bums in Thailand. Maybe IBO title holder Jackson Asiku could come in, I reckon he'd jump at the chance.
Cornelius Lock is coming off a good win aswell. Would probably look like Escalente-Lock though if he fought De Leon.
:twisted: All this talk about Yordan had me pumped for that fight, Shouldn't be too hard to get a fighter in with this many days left. Also De Leon looks an easy target these days seems to have lost that power he used to be crushing guys with.
I find it crazy that an Indonesian kid that has only ever had one decent pay day in his career would reject this fight. He would be a getting ok money but the recognition and future opportunities that could have with it would be huge, I hate fighters that are narrow minded. A win could have seen him get big pay days on HBO and even if he did lose it wouldn't be the end of the world he would at least have a name in America.