Sonsona disappoints against Hernandez

[milmascaras1]

i have a question, why is marvin sonsona fighting wilfredo vazquez jr. for juanma lopez' vacant super bantamweight title next year? i think vazquez jr. deserves a title shot but why does sonsona? i mean, he looked terrible in his last fight against a total journeyman alejandro hernandez and couldn't even make weight and got stripped of his title! why are they bypassing antonio escalante who is a real strong title contender? escalante would wipe the floor with sonsona so why is he being excluded?

[ElTerribleMorales]

probably cause it's a more sellable fight, 2 undefeated prospects (even if Sonsona won a title he didn't really do anything with it), both are power punchers, one is the son of a former world champion, and they can use the whole PR vs Phillipines angle that they've been using as of late, but i agree that Sonsona hasn't done anything to deserve a title shot

[milmascaras1]

i think antonio escalante is a much more worthy opponent for vazquez jr. than sonsona. hell, sonsona couldn't even beat a mediocre hernandez even with his weight advantage! escalante would destroy little sonsona with body shots if they ever got the chance to fight. by the way, if this sonsona/vazquez jr. fight goes thru i think vazquez jr. will KTFO out of the undeserving sonsona. war vazquez jr.!!!!

[ElTerribleMorales]

i think antonio escalante is a much more worthy opponent for vazquez jr. than sonsona. hell, sonsona couldn't even beat a mediocre hernandez even with his weight advantage! escalante would destroy little sonsona with body shots if they ever got the chance to fight. by the way, if this sonsona/vazquez jr. fight goes thru i think vazquez jr. will KTFO out of the undeserving sonsona. war vazquez jr.!!!!

i'm not saying that Sonsona deserves the shot, i'm just trying to put a reason why it would most likely happen

[JazMerkin]

i have a question, why is marvin sonsona fighting wilfredo vazquez jr. for juanma lopez' vacant super bantamweight title next year? i think vazquez jr. deserves a title shot but why does sonsona? i mean, he looked terrible in his last fight against a total journeyman alejandro hernandez and couldn't even make weight and got stripped of his title! why are they bypassing antonio escalante who is a real strong title contender? escalante would wipe the floor with sonsona so why is he being excluded?

It's because the WBO have a rule that a champion or recent champion can move up & fight for a belt at a higher weight. Lopez is abandoning the belt, so it's vacant. Escalante is getting bypassed because he's apparently going to be fighting at Featherweight from now on