Jaime Munguía vs. Bruno Surace

About The Fight

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.