Mexico's Humberto Soto will meet David Díaz for the World Boxing Council's interim lightweight championship on the March 13 Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey boxing card at Cowboys Stadium, it was announced Tuesday.
Soto is the WBC's super featherweight champion and once held the featherweight title.
"It will be a spectacular event," said Soto (50-7-2). "It's going to be a showcase because Pacquiao will be there. That will help me gain recognition with people."
Diaz (35-2-1) lost via ninth-round TKO to Pacquiao in June 2008.
The card will include seven bouts, said Ricardo Jiménez, a spokesman for promoter Top Rank Inc. Pacquiao and Clottey are fighting for the World Boxing Organization's welterweight title.
Undefeated Dallas bantamweight Roberto Marroquin will fight an opponent to be determined. Marroquin (12-0, 9 KOs) fought in the 2007 Pan American Games.
Mexico's Salvador Sánchez, the nephew and namesake of the former world champion, also will fight against an opponent to be determined.
Another fight features former world lightweight champion José Luis Castillo going 10 rounds against Alfonso Gómez. Both fighters are from Mexico.
Top Rank had hoped to include former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito but left him off the card because he has no Texas boxing license, although he has applied for one.
Margarito's license was suspended by the California Athletic Commission following his January 2009 knockout loss to Shane Mosley. Officials accused Margarito of trying to step into the ring with plaster-hardened hand bandages, a charge the boxer denied.
In addition to the Cowboys Stadium card, Top Rank has lined up 10 fights March 12 at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine.
The fighters include Omar Chávez, son of the legendary former Mexican champion Julio César Chávez, and Fort Worth prospect Arthur Treviño, Jiménez said.
THE CARD
March 13, Cowboys Stadium in Arlington
• Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs) vs. Joshua Clottey (35-3, 21 KOs)
• Humberto Soto (50-7-2, 32 KOs) vs. David Díaz (35-2-1, 17 KOs)
• José Luis Castillo (60-9-1, 52 KOs) vs. Alfonso Gómez (21-4-2, 10 KOs)
• Michael Medina (22-1-2, 17 KOs) vs. John Duddy (28-1, 18 KOs)
• Roberto Marroquín (12-0, 9 KOs) vs. TBA
• Salvador Sánchez (18-3-2, 8 KOs) vs. TBA
• Michael Farenas (26-2-3, 23 KOs) vs. TBA
Source: dallasnews.com
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