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Soto Karass-Kamegai rematch set for September
- Updated: July 22, 2016
8:50 PM ET
Mexican junior middleweight Jesus Soto Karass and Japan’s Yoshihiro Kamegai are not top contenders and neither is a likely future world title challenger, but they have for years made action-packed fights and developed something of a cult following.
So when they squared off on April 15 it came as little surprise that they waged an intense fight of the year contender.
The 10-round fight ended in a split draw, making a rematch the most obvious and lucrative fight either could make. And on Thursday it was finalized.
Soto Karass and Kamegai will meet again on Sept. 10, but this time, rather than being on a small card at the tiny Belasco Theater in Los Angeles on a Spanish-language cable channel without wide distribution, they will face each other at The Forum in Inglewood, California, on HBO (10 p.m. ET/PT), Golden Boy announced.
The 10-round bout will take place as the co-feature on the card headlined by the previously announced fight between pound-for-pound king Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (45-0, 38 KOs), the flyweight world champion, and junior …
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