Former junior Middleweight champion Jaime Munguia is negotiating a fight against unbeaten Bruno Surace for December 14th at the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana.
If the fight gets made, it would be the third one this year for the 28-year-old Munguia (44-1, 35 KOs), who defeated Erik Bazinyan by an eleventh-round knockout on September 20th and lost to unified super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez on May 4th by a 12-round unanimous decision.
The Frenchmen Surace (25-0-2, 4 KOs) isn’t ranked in the top 15 at middleweight and is not well known by fans. He’s been fighting obscure opposition in France during his eight-year career; unsurprisingly, he’s failed to receive a top-tier ranking. This fight with Munguia will give Surace a chance to get some recognition.
The Old Ways Returning
Munguia’s promoters had to do some real digging to find 26-year-old Surace, but at least he’s facing a fighter with an unbeaten record, even if it’s filled with unknown opposition.
This is the kind of soft matchmaking that Munguia’s promoters have done for him virtually his entire career, enabling him to rack up 44 wins before suffering his first loss in his cash-out fight against Canelo. Munguia had been matched against weak opposition for over a decade before finally getting the Canelo payday, and now he’s returning to what caught him in that fight.
On the undercard, former two-division world champion Luis ‘ ‘Pantera’ Nery (35-2, 27 KOs) will be returning to the ring for the first since being knocked out in the sixth round by undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue on May 6th in Tokyo, Japan.
Salvador Rodriguez broke the news about Munguia-Surace being in the works.
If Munguia wins this fight, he’ll have the option of facing former super middleweight world title challenger Edgar Berlanga, who is coming off a wide 12-round unanimous decision to Canelo on September 14th.
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 must 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 can still make good money if he can get his hands on one of the titles at Super Middleweight.
