Phil D. Jay WBN Editor Previously undefeated welterweight prospect has a point to prove as he awaits comeback fight Former WBC Youth world welterweight champion James De la Rosa is still reflecting on his first defeat in 21 bouts. "The King's" career unravelled in front of his eyes in January as he was put down three times against Allen Conyers (12-4), before losing a tight points decision in Michigan. De La Rosa, 23, had knocked out twelve of his first twenty opponents before losing to Conyers, with ten in the first three rounds and also boasts the only career defeat inflicted on up and coming USBA light-welterweight champion Tim Coleman, whom he out-pointed in 2008. De la Rosa captured the WBC Youth title as a 19 year-old in 2007, a belt which has previously been held by American light-welterweight champions Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander, more recently though, by Mexican starlet Saul Alvarez. The US-based Mexican is awaiting news of his next oppone...
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