“SUPERFLY TWO” HAS RECEIVED CLEARANCE AND IS READY TO TAKE OFF!

WBC Superflyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and mandatory challenger Juan Francisco Estrada both scored big victories on the Sept. 9 card dubbed “Superfly.”

Now they will clash in the main event of “Superfly 2” card on Feb. 24th to be beamed by HBO from The Forum in Inglewood, California, promoter Tom Loeffler announces, stressing: “It’s very exciting to announce the main event for the second installment of our ‘Superfly’ series.”  He`s also explaining that the HBO telecast will include two other bouts, drawing from the deep pool of talent in the  15-pound weight class,  enthusing:  “With the tremendous response from fans and media to  our first event and overwhelming anticipation in the build up to  our second, we join boxing fans in saying that we can’t wait until Feb. 24 at The Fabulous Forum.”

On the Sept. 9th brickbats and mortar fire at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, laid out  the cornerstone foundations with  Thailand’s Sor Rungvisai landing a crushing fourth-round knockout on  former four-division world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez in a rematch of the former’s controversial decision win to emphatically underline his champion`s majesty.

In the opening bout of that now fabled card, former flyweight champ Estrada scored a 10th-round knockdown and went on to win  a highly competitive but clear decision by scores of  114-113 on all three scorecards — against former champion Carlos Cuadras in a title eliminator to earn a well deserved mandatory title shot against Sor Rungvisai.

“The super flyweight division is the highest quality  division in the world of boxing at the moment,” momentarily mused the laconic Sor Rungvisai, also commenting: “I have great respect for Tom Loeffler and HBO for making ‘Superfly’ so very successful, and ‘Superfly 2″  WILL  continue to deliver! We have so many great fighters in the super flyweight division. It is exciting for me because there are many world-class opponents that can make terrific fights!”

Sor Rungvisai (43-4-1, 39 KOs),  a former garbage collector and security guard, before hitting it big with a tremendous southpaw impact in boxing, is in his second title reign. He won a 115-pound belt in 2013 and made one successful defense before losing it to Cuadras by eighth-round technical decision in 2014. Busiliy fighting an astounding fifteen times to get himself back to where he`d previously been,  he got his second title opportunity against Gonzalez in March, at New York’s Madison Square Garden, when he won a decision in a bloody encounter.

The victory ended Gonzalez’s unbeaten run, deposing him from the top spot on the pound-for-pound list and made Sor Rungvisai a super popular national hero in Thailand. Sor Rungvisai left absolutely no doubt in the rematch against Gonzalez. with two right handed knockdowns, the last of which poleaxed the Nicaraguan, abruptly ended proceedings.

Estrada (36-2, 25 KOs), has won 10 fights in a row since losing a unanimous decision in a hellacious war with Gonzalez in a junior flyweight world title fight in 2012.