Apparently this fight is in the works. GOOD matchup! First REAL test for J-Rock, as Soro is a good fighter who can ruin a fraud prospect (like he did to Glen Tapia).
Just found out about this. Good match up. And the winner becomes the mandatory for Jermall Charlo's title, I believe.
"Ronnie Shields knows in his heart that Jermall don't want this work." - J-Rock. Williams said he offered to go TO Houston for Charlo, and take the lesser part of the purse, and was turned down. J-Rock and Spence = The two young guys at 147-154 that nobody wants any parts of.
I'm not surprised. You can add Austin Trout to the list of fighters ducking J-Rock as well. That one I don't even understand, though. I mean, WHAT options does Trout have???... He's not particularly exciting. It's not like he's IN LINE to have rematches with Canelo or Cotto... No reason he'd want it with Lara again. He's not an attractive opponent for Golovkin. And I don't hear his name coming up as a potential opponent for either of the Charlo bros, and Andrade is a sleeper kind of guy nobody is too anxious to face either... It's the same deal with all these other guys like Thurman, Garcia, and Khan. Doing everything they can to avoid facing any kind of challenge.
i dunno if Id say its williams first real test. he's fought some decent competition. centeno jr was unbeaten
I still don't get Trout turning down a fight with Julian. It's not like he's in line for any big money super star fights.
Centeno Jr is a questionable prospect to me. I see Soro as a better fighter. I fully expect Williams to handily beat Soro though. Soro is by FAR better than anyone Jermall has fought. I don't even think I'd pick Jermall over Soro.
He mentioned Jan 23rd. My guess is it ends up as the Garcia-Guerrrero undercard, which makes Garcia-Guerrero the walkout fight...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MANDOWN?src=hash">#MANDOWN</a> x <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JRock?src=hash">#JRock</a> ... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeGotNOW?src=hash">#WeGotNOW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/worldtitlechase?src=hash">#worldtitlechase</a> x2 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JacobsQuillin?src=hash">#JacobsQuillin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Jrockboxing">@Jrockboxing</a> <a href="https://t.co/kVam4IOZhi">pic.twitter.com/kVam4IOZhi</a></p>— Errol Spence (@ErrolSpenceJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/ErrolSpenceJr/status/673341028712054785">December 6, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> As we saw in the video, Spence was there with him taking in the fight. Yeah it makes sense that J-Rock-Soro will end up on that undercard.
Somebody lock Trout and Thurman in a room and force them to look at this pic so they'll piss themselves.