{"id":12164,"date":"2011-06-29T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2011-06-29T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T14:41:33","slug":"michael-oliveira-jose-soto-set-for-july-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12164","title":{"rendered":"Michael Oliveira – Jose Soto: Set for July 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Undefeated Michael\u201cThe Brazilian Rocky\u201d Oliveira continues his mission to re-popularize boxing in his native Brazil, when he returns home to fight for the third time, July 16 at Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Oliveira (14-0, 11 KOs), now rated No. 17 by the World Boxing Council \u201cWBC\u201d), takes on the Dominican veteran Jose \u201cMinguito\u201d Soto (24-7-2, 13 KOs) for the vacant WBC Latino middleweight title in the 10 round main event.<\/p>\n

\u201cSao Paulo Fight Night,\u201d presented by MO Productions, will air live on TV Globo Network, SporTV cable, GloboEsporte and TV Globo International, as well as TYC in Argentina.<\/p>\n

Oliveira, the two-time defending Brazilian International Press Award\u2019s Athlete of the Year (2009 and 2010), was born in Sao Paulo but he moved two weeks after birth with his family to Miami.<\/p>\n

Oliveira, fighting for the second fight in his native Brazil this past March, won a 10-round decision against previously unbeaten Abel Nicolas Adriel in Sao Paulo for the Interim WBC Latino super middleweight crown.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s last superstar boxer, four-time world champion Acelino \u201cPopo\u201d Freitas, made his third World Boxing Organization super featherweight title defense in Credicard Hall, one of the largest show arenas in South America, when he knocked out challenger Javier Jauregui in 2000. Freitas showed his support for Oliveira and MO Productions by being a special guest at Oliveira\u2019s last fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe response to Michael fighting at home in Brazil has been tremendous,\u201d MO Productions president and Michael\u2019s father, Carlos, said. \u201cEach fight there has increased his popularity. Michael has been training very hard in Miami with his new trainer, Orlando Cueller. He\u2019s dropped weight, gotten stronger and will be fighting again as a middleweight. We believe his best fighting weight may be at 154-pounds but we\u2019re gradually dropping him down. He\u2019s going to be a force at middleweight and, eventually, dangerous as a junior middleweight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d like to once again thank TV Globo \u2013 this is the third in a six-fight, two year deal we have with TV Global \u2013 and the Brazilian Boxing Commission. The fight will also be shown on Argentinean television. Soto promises to be Michael\u2019s toughest opponent so far. He\u2019s had 33 pro fights, fought 100 more rounds than Michael (146 to 46), and been in the ring with world-class fighters such as two-time world title challenger Reggie Green, Anthony Peterson and Darling Jimenez. Soto is definitely a step-up in competition for Michael, but we think he\u2019s ready for this test.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Undefeated Michael\u201cThe Brazilian Rocky\u201d Oliveira continues his mission to re-popularize boxing in his native Brazil, when he returns home to fight for the third time, July 16 at Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo. The 21-year-old Oliveira (14-0, 11 KOs), now rated No. 17 by the World Boxing Council \u201cWBC\u201d), takes on the Dominican veteran Jose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-12164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}