{"id":13925,"date":"2011-08-03T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T00:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13925"},"modified":"2011-08-03T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T00:23:32","slug":"canadian-boxing-news-victor-lupo-stalks-phil-lo-greco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=13925","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Boxing News: Victor Lupo Stalks Phil Lo Greco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: Durell Wambolt\/The Boxing Examiner<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the past year, rugged Romanian welterweight Victor Lupo has unsuccessfully stalked undefeated World Boxing Council (\u201cWBC\u201d) International Welterweight Champion Phil \u201cThe Italian Sensation\u201d Lo Greco. His persistence will soon pay-off, though, as the WBC recently ordered promoters Hennessy Sports (Lupo) and OPI 2000 (Lo Greco) to negotiate an agreement or Lo Greco-Lupo will go to purse bid next month.<\/p>\n

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Lupo\u2019s impressive victory 10-round decision for the vacant WBC International Silver title this past February, against former world champion Junior Witter (37-3-2), set the stage for a showdown between Lupo (19-1-2, 9 KOs) and Lo Greco (22-0, 12 KOs).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a natural fight because Lupo lives in Toronto and Lo Greco was born there. Much more than Toronto bragging rights will be on the line, however, including a potential world title shot for the winner. Lo Greco is rated No. 13 by the WBC, while Lupo\u2019s ranked No. 22.<\/p>\n

Lupo believes Lo Greco has been avoiding him. \u201cThe Italian Sensation\u201d obviously hasn\u2019t lived-up to his nickname, fighting only a pair of six-round bouts in Italy, since he captured the WBC International crown June 18, 2010 via a ninth-round knockout of Slawomir Ziemiewicz.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be a crossroads fight for both guys with the winner positioned for a world title fight next year,\u201d promoter Adam Harris (Hennessy Sports) commented. \u201cVictor is convinced that Lo Greco is scared of him, which explains why making it happen has been so difficult. A fight like this will certainly draw the attention of the Canadian media, especially where both fighters are from Toronto. OPI 2000 (Italian promoters Salvatore and Christian Cherchi) hasn\u2019t responded to our proposals but, if the fight goes to purse bid, we are committed to making a good offer to promote the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Durell Wambolt\/The Boxing Examiner For the past year, rugged Romanian welterweight Victor Lupo has unsuccessfully stalked undefeated World Boxing Council (\u201cWBC\u201d) International Welterweight Champion Phil \u201cThe Italian Sensation\u201d Lo Greco. His persistence will soon pay-off, though, as the WBC recently ordered promoters Hennessy Sports (Lupo) and OPI 2000 (Lo Greco) to negotiate an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,1143],"class_list":["post-13925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925","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=13925"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}