Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-11-12, close fight with some good exchanges: Jason Sosa vs Stephen Smith gets three stars.The Wba champion Jason Sosa entered this fight with a pro boxing record of 19-1-4 (15 KOs=79%) and he is ranked as the No.1 super featherweight in the world. He suffered his only loss at his fifth professional fight in 2010, against Tre’Sean Wiggins, since then he has collected 16 victories and 3 draws, drawing with Nicholas Walters in 2015 (=Walters vs Sosa) and beating Javier Fortuna in 2016 (=Fortuna vs Sosa).
His opponent, Stephen Smith, has a record of 24-2-0 (14 knockouts) and he entered as the No.17 in the same weight class. He has fought twice in 2016 losing to Jose Pedraza (=Pedraza vs Smith) and winning over Daniel Eduardo Brizuela. ‘El Canito’ Sosa vs Smith is valid for the WBA World super featherweight (Sosa’s first defense); undercard of Luis Ortiz vs Malik Scott. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2016-11-12
Where: Salle des Etoiles, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Division: super featherweight (130 lbs, 59.0 kg)
Title: WBA World super featherweight title
Sosa’s previous fight: Javier Fortuna vs Jason Sosa
Sosa’s next fight: Vasyl Lomachenko vs Jason Sosa
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Great fight! Sosa is a very entertaining fighter in this division, not sure he’s got enough defensive skills to retain his title for long though. Time will tell. But based on what we saw against Walters, I think we’ve seen the best of him already. I believe he’s a good top10er, that’s it. On the other hand, Smith showed tremendous chin and courage and gave all he got.
A word on the whole venue in Monté Carlo: it was a fiasco. The referee in Ortiz fight was a clown. He should have stopped that fight the moment he realized Malik wasn’t even pretending to fight, but instead he helped him up when he got knocked down… Even the doctor in this Sosa fight… I mean, okay, I can understand the fact that he may want to wipe some blood off of Smith’s face to see the location and depth of the cut, but I’ve never seen a doctor apply pressure on a fighter’s wound as if he was trying to stop the bleeding. It seemed as if the doctor didn’t really understand what his role was and the referee didn’t remind him. Overall, it looked pretty amateur.
Dam smith really got my respect but he’ll always be a European level fighter