A couple of months ago one of "our" fighters (Daniel "Bad Boy" Rosas) fought for the interim WBO Super Flyweight title and scored a draw with Jose Cabrera. Now we've heard that another of our fighters Andrzej Fonafara (or Andrew if you want to Anglicanise it) is about to fight for a title in early 2012 when he faces WBO Light Heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly.
The Chicago based Pole who's record currently stands at 19-1-0-1 (10) is on an unbeaten run since being stopped in the second round by Derrick Findley back in 2008 and has actually strung together an impressive 7 straight KO victories since that loss as he's moved from a Middleweight to a genuine Light Heavyweight. Sadly for Fonfara his best wins have been against relatively poor opponents and it's hard to really say just how good he is from stopping the likes of Jose Spearman and Anthony Russell.
Currently Boxrec have Fonfara scheduled to fight the hard punching Phil Williams on December 16th, odds are that fight is about to be cancelled and the Cleverly fight is about to confirmed for February 25th. Whilst on paper it looks like a mismatch with Cleverly a consensus top 10 it should be noted that Fonfara is thought highly of by Polish boxing fans and hs been looking better since he moved up to Light Heavyweight than he had previously. It should also be noted than Nathan Cleverly really struggled with Tony Bellew another fighter that Cleverly was expected to dispose of with relative ease. Though even with all this in mind it's hard to imagine Cleverly losing.
Despite being 19-2-0-1 (10) overall Fonfara is an impressive 7-0 (7) at Light Heavyweight and will be looking to move to 8-0 (8) when he travels to Cardiff next year though he will be regarded as a large under-dog.
Below we can see Fonfara v Spearman, video thanks to poltvchicago
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