The Super Bantamweight division is one on the most exciting division's in the sport of boxing right now with the likes of Nonito Donaire, Guillermo Rigondeaux, Abner Mares and Toshiaki Nishioka all at the top of the tree. As well as those at the top of the division it's also laden with talent on it's way up such as Japanese youngster Yukinori Oguni, Britain's fast rising Carl Frampton and Puerto Rican Luis Orlando Del Valle.
With this in mind I've decided to take a look at the unbeaten Luis Orlando Del Valle (16-0, 11) who fights in his biggest fight so far later this week as he faces former world champion Vic Darchinyan (37-5-1, 27).
The 25 year old "Orlandito" was born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico (the same city that has given us Wilfredo Vazquez, Wilfredo Vazquez Jr and recent world title challenger Francisco Palacios amongst others) and started in the sport at a young age.
By his early teens Orlando was an emerging young amateur and in 2004 he really began to make his mark on the US domestic scene as he claimed the National Golden Gloves title as well as claiming a Silver medal at the National PAL championships. The following year Orlando further proved his quality as he claimed the title at Under 19 National Amateur Championships.
By 2008 Orlando had proven himself as one of the best young fighters in the US, sadly however he had failed to make a name on the international stage and instead of continuing in the amateur he decided to turn professional, aged just 21.
On his professional debut Del Valle stopped Ray Rivera in the 3rd round with a tremendous shot, and by the end of the year he had swiftly moved to 4-0 (3). The following year saw Del Valle adding another 4 wins to his record as he moved to 8-0 (6) and although he was still fighting low level competition he was looking impressive showing the skills he had honed as an amateur.
It wasn't until June 2011 that Del Valle had his first notable fight as he took on the Vietnamese fighter Dat Nguyen for the NABA Featherweight title. In that fight Nguyen showed his toughness, but Del Valle was simply too good, too talented and too fast and won a clear (but competitive) decision.
Since beating Nguyen, Del Valle has scored 3 more wins, including a very impressive victory over the highly rated Christopher Martin. The victory over Martin has so far been the standout result on Del Valle's record though a victory over the experienced Darchinyan on Saturday night would eclipse it (despite the fact Darchinyan isn't the fighter he was down at 115lbs).
At just 25 years old "Orlandito" has plenty of time to become a star, and whilst he's certainly in a tough division he has the time and potential to make a real splash in the near future. A victory over Darchinyan is, in all honesty, expected and then hopefully he'll move on to facing a top 25 Super Bantamweight.
The video below shows highlights of Luis Orlando Del Del Valle and is thanks to xvdmrecords
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Genesis Servania
The Filipino boxing scene is one of the hottest right now and that's due to the huge number of prospects the country has. In the past I've looked at Milan Melindo, Sylvester Lopez and Froilan Saludar and it's time to add the name of unbeaten rising star Genesis Servania (16-0, 5) to our little ensemble.
Born in 1991 Genesis is one of the "babies" of professional boxing though is a fighter who is almost certainly a star in the making and is already climbing up through the boxrec and IBO top 100 at Super Bantamweight which is a division that Genesis has grown into since his debut back in 2009. In his debut Genesis weighed just 108lbs as he defeated Mike Espanosa (TKO2) and swiftly followed it up with 6 more wins in the next 12 months as he kept busy and kept growing and by the time he stopped Melchor Abcede (KO6) Genesis had become a fully blown Bantamweight.
Genesis had quickly and quietly gone about his business racking up wins against lower tier opposition with out too many problems, though he did struggle against Jun Piacidad winning just a split decision against the more experienced opponent in Genesis' first foray into the 8 round distance. Despite the fact he had been taking out pointing lower level opposition it seemed only a matter of time before until Genesis would have to step up and in 2011 he faced his first name fighter in Gerson Guerrero. Guerrero, a former title contender took an impressive record of 34-8 (26) into the bout against the then 14-0 (5) Servania, despite the difference in experience Servania was too big and too Fresh for his well respected Mexican opponent.
Servania has picked up a solitary win since defeating Guerrero though now finds himself in another test as he faces tough Kenyan Nick Otieno (21-7, 9). Although Otieno isn't a world level boxer he has recently fought for the Commonwealth Bantamweight title against Jamie McDonnell and has also lost to the talented Alexander Bakhtin so he has certainly mixed with a better class of opposition than Servania. Saying that however we would expect the young Filipino to defeat Otieno over the distance.
Born in 1991 Genesis is one of the "babies" of professional boxing though is a fighter who is almost certainly a star in the making and is already climbing up through the boxrec and IBO top 100 at Super Bantamweight which is a division that Genesis has grown into since his debut back in 2009. In his debut Genesis weighed just 108lbs as he defeated Mike Espanosa (TKO2) and swiftly followed it up with 6 more wins in the next 12 months as he kept busy and kept growing and by the time he stopped Melchor Abcede (KO6) Genesis had become a fully blown Bantamweight.
Genesis had quickly and quietly gone about his business racking up wins against lower tier opposition with out too many problems, though he did struggle against Jun Piacidad winning just a split decision against the more experienced opponent in Genesis' first foray into the 8 round distance. Despite the fact he had been taking out pointing lower level opposition it seemed only a matter of time before until Genesis would have to step up and in 2011 he faced his first name fighter in Gerson Guerrero. Guerrero, a former title contender took an impressive record of 34-8 (26) into the bout against the then 14-0 (5) Servania, despite the difference in experience Servania was too big and too Fresh for his well respected Mexican opponent.
Servania has picked up a solitary win since defeating Guerrero though now finds himself in another test as he faces tough Kenyan Nick Otieno (21-7, 9). Although Otieno isn't a world level boxer he has recently fought for the Commonwealth Bantamweight title against Jamie McDonnell and has also lost to the talented Alexander Bakhtin so he has certainly mixed with a better class of opposition than Servania. Saying that however we would expect the young Filipino to defeat Otieno over the distance.
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