Featherweight Contender Salvador Sanchez II Wins Ninth Straight

Salvador Sanchez II, the nephew of the late legendary World Boxing Council featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez, won his ninth consecutive bout on Saturday, February 11, 2012, at Deportivo Del Sindicato Del Metro in Mexico City, Mexico, retaining the WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title for the third time with an eighth round stoppage of challenger Mario Flores of Mexico City.

Sanchez II is currently ranked # 13 in the world by the WBC.

Sanchez II, now 28-4-3, 16 kayos, of Tianguistenco, Mexico, has used a combination of jabs and body work to build a significant win streak, and is well on the way to a shot at the WBC title once held by his mother’s brother. Sanchez II was born in September 1985, several years after his legendary uncle’s death in a car crash.

Named after his legendary uncle, Sanchez II began his career with a rocky start, going 2-2-2 in his first six bouts. The early record is most credible when you realize two of those opponents went on to become world champions.

Sanchez II lost his four round professional debut by unanimous decision to Oscar Ibarra, the current WBC Silver Flyweight champion. Sanchez II then lost his second professional bout by four round decision to future world ranked WBC Continental Americas Flyweight champion Oscar Blanquet. Sanchez II later drew with future IBF Super Flyweight champion Rodrigo Guerrero in Guerrero’s professional debut.

Sanchez II then went unbeaten in 12 consecutive bouts before losing a ten round decision for the WBC Youth Featherweight title to 13-0 Eduardo Lazcano, the current WBC Mundo Hispano Super Featherweight champion. Sanchez II then won nine fights in a row before dropping an eight round decision to world ranked featherweight Tomas Villa, who went on to lose to current WBC champion Johnny Gonzalez in a bout last July in Atlantic City, new Jersey’s Boardwalk Hall.

Villa and Gonzalez, like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Marco Antonio Rubio, are all Mexicans, and competition in lower weights among Mexican boxers is high level.

Still hot in pursuit of a shot at his late uncle’s WBC featherweight crown now held by Gonzalez, Sanchez II is now unbeaten in his last ten consecutive bouts (including one draw in 2010 to fellow Mexican Hector ‘Cachorro’ Morales). Sanchez II won the vacant WBC CABOFE title in August of 2011 with a third round stoppage of fellow Mexican Adnan Garcia, who had won 11 straight with nine knockouts coming into the vacant title bout.

Sanchez II had Garcia down twice in the bout. Sanchez II then defended the WBC belt last October with a second round knockout of former Mexican Super Flyweight champion Jovanny Sato. In November 2011, Sanchez II came off the canvas in the eighth round to retain the WBC belt with a close 12 round split decision win over challenger Alexander Monterrosa of Columbia.