he challenges Mbilli for the coveted green and gold WBC strap.<\/a> The other three major champions do not currently have fights set.<\/p>\nSpeaking with Boxing News, Iglesias\u2019 promoter, Camille Estephan, who also promotes Mbilli, revealed why he believes the Cuban southpaw, boasting a record of 15-0 with 14 KOs, may struggle to find a willing and available challenger.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople recognise his skill, that is why they don\u2019t want to fight him. When you look at the last few opponents, he fought Silyagin; when he fought Silyagin, nobody wanted to fight Silyagin \u2013 a technical fighter from Russia that people don\u2019t know, very good defensively. He got destroyed, literally. He couldn\u2019t see with one eye at the end of the fight, he couldn\u2019t breathe and he couldn\u2019t hear.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prior fighter who fought him, [Vladimir] Shishkin, was very highly regarded, an up-and-comer who at one point people thought was going to clean up the division. He was certainly a very, very strong fighter, also very good defensively, he got literally destroyed during the fight with Iglesias. You only need to look at the images.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you see the guy, [Evgeny] Shvedenko, who got a draw with Silyagin. He was knocked out in a very scary fashion, we were very, very worried about him. Every single guy that he has fought, he has destroyed. The people that are fighting him, they are never the same after that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand the hesitation for many of the top echelon fighters. I think that he is just going to continue doing that and then the fans are going to recognise that this is the guy \u2013 the guy that is on the top of the hill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recently at the IBF\u2019s 41st annual convention in Vietnam, Troy Williamson was invited to negotiate a final eliminator with Diego Pacheco for a shot at the belt, but it seems as though the Darlington-based operator will be unable to participate, with his long-awaited Callum Simpson rematch now being mooted for July.<\/p>\n
Continuing, Estephan gave praise to Williamson for his guts, declaring that he is \u2018one of the few people on the planet\u2019 who is confident enough to take on Iglesias.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith regards to Troy Williamson, I am hearing a lot of different things. I don\u2019t know what his next move is, but with Iglesias, Troy was willing to fight him, so kudos to him. He is one of the few people on the planet that wants to fight Iglesias.\u201d<\/p>\n
With few challengers daring to call for a shot at the undefeated 28-year-old, Estephan admitted that both he and his fighter are looking towards the other super-middleweight world champions, in the hope of securing unification bouts. However, that energy has not been reciprocated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I can say about Iglesias is that he wants to fight other world champions. He has the IBF and IBO titles but it seems as though Munguia wants nothing to do with Iglesias and Sheeraz, even more so. They talk about wanting to unify, but when they hear Iglesias, they forget what unification is.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would rather fight anybody but Iglesias. He is clearly the bogeyman of boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want Iglesias to defend his title and we want Iglesias to be in a position where he becomes unavoidable. Sheeraz and Munguia were talking about unifications until they heard of Iglesias, so maybe they will fight each other, but they can run and they cannot hide.\u201d<\/p>\n
One potential option for Sheeraz and Munguia is to face one another on the Canelo-Mbilli undercard. Iglesias\u2019 possible addition to that September 12 show means all four of the 168lb straps could be up for grabs on the night.<\/p>\n
Billed as the \u2018Mexico vs. The World\u2019, Iglesias would presumably need to source a Mexican challenger, with former WBA champion Armando Resendi sticking out as the most obvious option if Estephan and Turki Alalshikh are indeed planning for Iglesias to fight on the undercard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that the super-middleweight world titles have all been picked up following Terence Crawford\u2019s retirement, fans are hopeful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-617481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}