Quote Originally Posted by milmascaras1 View Post
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