Phumelele Cafu vs Roman Gonzalez possible for 2025

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Chuck Norris, Nov 30, 2024 at 3:35 AM.



  1. Chuck Norris

    Chuck Norris Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I wanted Roman to fight for a belt at bantamweight. However this is still is a neat fight. Should he be victorious, this will open up the possibility against the likes of Rodriguez, Martinez, Ioka and Tanaka. Plus there hasn't been a championship fight in Nicaragua in a very long time, I think, so that's cool as well. :chuck:
     
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  2. Izakaya

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    Bam and Chocolatito are both directly promoted by Teiken in Japan. Tanaka is not 100% Teiken, but have been fighting on their Amazon Prime Live Boxing cards they've had for a good few cards. I have a feeling Teiken is hoping that early next year Chocolatito can have a well deserved homecoming world title fight and also win against Cafu, so that they can put Chocolatito in their Prime card in the second half of the year against Tanaka. For Teiken, they want Tanaka to fight for a belt again soon to fill their "world title fight" checkbox but definitely would rather have him fight against Chocolatito instead of a direct rematch against Cafu on the next card IMO.

    In early 2025 Chocolatito-Cafu can happen at Nicaragua. Unrelated to it, Tanaka fights some contenders to get back on the win streak on some undercard in Japan. Then depending on when Choco wants to fight again, possibly put one more match in to rebuild his value or just go straight to a Chocolatito fight in Japan on a Teiken card. The best case win-win scenario for Teiken. Worst case if Cafu defeats Chocolatito, at least they can sell a Cafu-Tanaka 2 as "rematch against the guy who defeated the legend Chocolatito" and it actually would make Tanaka's razor thin loss to Cafu the first time much less painful.

    Edit: Third possible outcome that will also work in favor for Teiken is that the current rankings for WBO 115 is 1. Chocolatito, 2. Ioka, 3. Estrada, 4. Tanaka.
    Ioka is fighting Martinez on a rematch in NYE, so he'll either get off the rankings via winning back the WBA belt or lose and retire or if not retire then likely fall below Tanaka. Estrada has already officially announced and made his move up to 118 I believe, and won't be returning back it seems. Chocolatito will obviously be gone if he wins the belt and retires. That means as long as Tanaka can keep his ranking afloat against okay level contenders, he has a very high chance of fighting for the vacant WBO belt anyway if you suppose Chocolatito fights Cafu, wins and then decides to retire as a champion.
     
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  3. McGrain

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    I am against Roman going to BW, it's late and I am keen to see him home safe!