Jerusalem appears on Collazo’s radar

Not one but two blips have appeared on Oscar Collazo’s radar screen.

Melvin Jerusalem has been detected by the Puerto Rican two-belt world minimumweight champion Oscar Collaz as well.

Jerusalem, holder of the World Boxing Council strap, and Collazo exchanged messages in a post that came out on the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and World Boxing Association titleholder’s social media account.

“Let’s go champion,” Jerusalem wrote as a response to Collazo’s post over the weekend.

“See you soon champ. Let’s give the fans a great fight,” Collazo responded.

Jerusalem answered again: “Yes champ see you.”

If it happens, the fight will be a rematch since Collazo had beaten Jerusalem by stoppage in May 2023 in Indio, California.

As Jerusalem and Collazo are busy lighting up social media, the other Filipino world champion, Pedro Taduran, the International Boxing Federation ruler in the same 105-pound division, is quietly training in Las Vegas.

Like Jerusalem, Taduran, a southpaw like Collazo, is also nursing hopes of landing a fight that could potentially make him a three-belt champion.

Collazo’s camp has yet to issue an announcement about who he is going 

to face next 

in a match targeted for March in Puerto Rico.

“We are just waiting for them. I am just in training mode,” Jerusalem told DAILY TRIBUNE.

Michael Domingo, lead trainer of Jerusalem, knows what’s happening and is on red alert.

“We are preparing just in case the fight gets done,” he said.

American Sean Gibbons, who represents Taduran, is in Puerto Rico and even met with Collazo during a break in a WBO event he is attending.

Jerusalem is making himself visible and ready. So is Taduran.

Whoever gets the big fight will be lucky and truly deserving.

In the end, it is Philippine boxing that is the biggest winner.