Former junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguia is negotiating a fight against undefeated Bruno Surace for December 14 at the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana.
If the fight goes ahead, it will be the third this year for the 28-year-old Munguia (44-1, 35 KOs), who defeated Erik Bazinyan by eleventh-round knockout on Sept. 20 and lost to unified super middleweight. champion Canelo Alvarez on May 4 by a 12-round unanimous decision.
The Frenchman Surace (25-0-2, 4 KOs) is not in the top 15 in middleweight and is not well known among fans. He fought dark opposition in France during his eight-year career; it is not surprising that he failed to receive a top ranking. This fight with Munguia will give Surace a chance to get some recognition.
The old ways are returning
Munguia’s promoters had to do some digging to track down the 26-year-old Surace, but at least he faces a fighter with an undefeated record, albeit filled with unknown opposition.
It’s the kind of soft matchmaking that Munguia’s promoters have done for him virtually his entire career, allowing him to rack up 44 wins before suffering his first loss in his pay-per-view fight against Canelo. Munguia was matched up against poor opposition for over a decade before finally getting the Canelo payday, and now he’s returning to what got him into that fight.
On the undercard, former two-division world champion Luis ‘Pantera’ Nery (35-2, 27 KOs) will return to the ring for the first time since being knocked out by undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue in the sixth round in May is. 6th in Tokyo, Japan.
Salvador Rodriguez has the news about Munguia-Surace being in the works.
If Munguia wins this fight, he will have the option to face former super-middleweight world title challenger Edgar Berlanga, who takes a wide 12-round unanimous decision to Canelo on September 14.
Munguia would like to get a rematch with Canelo. Still, the chances of that ever happening are slim, especially if he’s fighting no-name opposition like Surace and Bazinyan. If Munguia wants the second fight with Canelo, he needs to beat these types of fighters:
– Diego Pacheco
– Osleys Iglesias
– Christian Mbilli
–David Morrell
– Jermall Charlo
Even if Munguia never gets a rematch with Canelo, he could still make good money if he can get his hands on one of the titles at Super Middleweight.
