Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor
Mexican veteran still hunting world title chance
Luis Ramon ‘Yori Boy’ Campas is hoping to move a step closer to a sixth world title challenge on Saturday night in Sonora, Mexico in what will be his 115th professional contest and his 40th birthday.
The 24-year fight veteran faces former Ghanaian middleweight champion Mohammed Akrong for the vacant WBA International 154lb title and a victory would put him just one win away from his 100th career W.
Campas (98-15-1, 77 KO’s) has taken on some of the world’s best fighters in a career that started in 1987 against Gaby Vega and went seven years and 56 fights before the first blemish againt Felix Trinidad in an IBF welterweight title fight.
The Sonora-born fighter would lose another world title shot in 1996 to Jose Luis Lopez, before claiming his only world crown in 1997 when stopping Raul Marquez in eight rounds to pick up the IBF light-middleweight title. Campas would make four defences before being dethroned by Fernando Vargas and suffered two more world challenge disappointments against Daniel Santos in 2002 and the great Oscar De La Hoya in 2003, both at 154lbs.
Capturing the fringe WBA title would see Campas rise considerably in the WBA rankings and a dream fight against belt holder Miguel Cotto would pop up on the horizon fourteen years after he first became champion.
WBN Editor
Mexican veteran still hunting world title chanceLuis Ramon ‘Yori Boy’ Campas is hoping to move a step closer to a sixth world title challenge on Saturday night in Sonora, Mexico in what will be his 115th professional contest and his 40th birthday.
The 24-year fight veteran faces former Ghanaian middleweight champion Mohammed Akrong for the vacant WBA International 154lb title and a victory would put him just one win away from his 100th career W.
Campas (98-15-1, 77 KO’s) has taken on some of the world’s best fighters in a career that started in 1987 against Gaby Vega and went seven years and 56 fights before the first blemish againt Felix Trinidad in an IBF welterweight title fight.
The Sonora-born fighter would lose another world title shot in 1996 to Jose Luis Lopez, before claiming his only world crown in 1997 when stopping Raul Marquez in eight rounds to pick up the IBF light-middleweight title. Campas would make four defences before being dethroned by Fernando Vargas and suffered two more world challenge disappointments against Daniel Santos in 2002 and the great Oscar De La Hoya in 2003, both at 154lbs.
Capturing the fringe WBA title would see Campas rise considerably in the WBA rankings and a dream fight against belt holder Miguel Cotto would pop up on the horizon fourteen years after he first became champion.