A Good Night for Lightweights but Don't Forget Abraham

On June 27th Juan Manuel Lopez and Jorge Arce won their respective fights. Juan Manuel Lopez had another strong victory adding to his undefeated record and Jorge Arce had a strong comeback win. Lopez is cementing himself among the top of the super bantamweight division and Arce climbing the ranks of super flyweight after his loss to Vic Darchinyan. These two fighters are some of the strongest among the ligt divisons.

Also that night, Arthur Abraham fought very well getting a TKO in the 10th round. Abraham has been consistently defeating all of his opponents having an undefeated record of 30-0. A fight should be scheduled soon to have Abraham against Kelly Pavlik to unify the middleweight division. That would be a very good fight and I will give a full breakdown and prediction of the fight when it happens.

Back to the lightweights, Lopez looks ready to take on anyone including Rafael Marquez. Marquez had a good victory over Jose Francisco Mendoza in May and should get set up for a major fight with Lopez. Marquez was had lost his previous two fights in a battle of a trilogy with Israel Vazquez, and he looked great against Mendoza. He won by TKO in the 3rd round. If these two fighters square off it would make for an amazing fight.

Arce looked very solid in his fight and looks as sharp as ever. He's ready for anyone except Vic Darchinyan or Nonito Donaire. He has several possibilities of who he could fight. I would like to see him fight Daisuke Naito from Japan. Naito has a very aggressive fighting style that would clash very well with Arce's style. However, Naito has never fought outside of Japan so I would like to see it but I doubt it would happen.

Sometimes the lightweights under 130 lbs. get forgotten about but with good fighters like Lopez and Arce the divisions are very entertaining. My favorite fighter is Nonito Donaire who is set to fight against Rafael Concepcion in August. Donaire is another very entertaining fighter who gave Darchinyan his only loss in 2007. Keep your eyes on these divisions if you like great fighters.