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Lewkowicz assures Suarez of Navarrete rematch

Lewkowicz assures Suarez of Navarrete rematch


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Uruguayan-American promoter Sampson Lewkowicz guaranteed that world No. 1 super-featherweight Charly Suarez would finally get another shot at Mexican two-belt world champion Emanuel Navarrete before the year ends.
“(The fight is happening) not next year but this October or November,” Lewkowicz told DAILY TRIBUNE from his Las Vegas homebase.
Lewkowicz stressed that Navarrete, who holds the World Boxing Organization and International Boxing Federation 130-pound belts, doesn’t have a choice but to face the Filipino.
“He (Navarrete) was allowed to do a unification fight (instead of a rematch with Suarez) because that is allowed because it is a unification,” Lewkowicz said.
“But he can’t do another unification,” he added.
Suarez cemented his status as the WBO’s mandatory challenger after scoring a sensational first-round knockout of Manuel Avila over the weekend in San Bernardino, California.
Leekowicz, who assumed the role of Suarez’s promoter only two months ago, said that back-to-back unification bouts won’t be allowed even as reports say that Navarrete is in talks with O’Shaquie Foster, the World Boxing Association titleholder.
“That is not true,” said the 75-year-old Lewkowicz, whose handprints can also be seen in the careers of Manny Pacquiao, Johnriel Casimero, Donnie Nietes, Marvin Sonsona and Gerry Peñalosa.
To brace for the Navarrete rematch, Suarez will stay behind in America so he can have a solid training camp, according to Lewkowicz.
Suarez should have been world champion last year after his first close encounter with Navarrete in San Diego.
Initially, the fight was awarded to Navarrete via technical decision but it was later changed to a No-Contest following a video replay that showed that a punch — and not an accidental clash of heads — opened a ghastly cut on Navarrete’s right eyebrow.
Suarez, who turns 38 next month, then convinced the WBO to order Navarrete to meet him a second time but it wasn’t followed.