With Teofimo Lopez taking his ball and going residence, former IBF tremendous light-weight champion Subriel Matias is trying to problem for his former title as a substitute, and the sanctioning physique has ordered him to battle Gabriel Gollaz Valenzuela for a crack at it
Gollaz (30-3-1, 17 KO) has reportedly already accepted. The 30-year-old is 27-1-1 since falling to a younger William Zepeda in 2016, notably edging out Robbie Davies Jr, narrowly falling to Montana Love, destroying Yves Ulysse Jr, and taking a bogus determination over Stevie Spark. He’s acquired the model to placed on an absolute banger with Matias (21-2, 21 KO), who needed to battle via adversity to cease Roberto Ramirez in final November’s comeback.
Whoever wins can be subsequent in line to problem Richardson Hitchins, who made a whole lot of noise in regards to the IBF’s rehydration rule when he was Matias’ necessary however went silent about it when it got here time to combat Liam Paro as a substitute. That combat would presumably must happen by December.
