WBC FEATHER WORLD
Gonzalez 57 kg
Atwell 57 kg
Report and photos by Pepe Rodríguez/WBC
WBC featherweight champion, Jhonny Gonzalez (55-8, 47 Ko’s), spoke to the Mexican press on Friday afternoon after a public workout at the “Sport City” Gym in Mexico City.
Gonzalez is preparing for the first defense of his title against Clive “Punisher” Atwell (12-0-1, 7 KOs), who comes undefeated from Guyana with the dream of winning the WBC green and gold belt.
This bout will be the main event of a boxing show that Promociones del Pueblo and De Leon Promotions will present next May 24 at the Convention Center of Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, and will be broadcast around the country by Televisa network.
With only one week left before the fight, Gonzalez is confident to win: “This is what I love to do”, Gonzalez said. “I will be at home, with my people, a normal day for me. I will fight my style. I will be smart, Atwell will not be able to win this fight” Gonzalez ended.
PRE-FIGHT PICTURES
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
