Édgar Sosa’s Light Flyweight Reign Delivered Ten Successful
Édgar Sosa won the vacant WBC light flyweight championship on April 14, 2007, defeating Brian Viloria by majority decision over twelve rounds in San Antonio, Texas. The Mexico City boxer then built a title reign that lasted more than two years.
Career highlights
Sosa made ten successful defenses of the 108-pound championship. His title opponents included Sonny Boy Jaro, Juanito Rubillar, Pornsawan Kratingdaenggym, Carlos Melo and Omar Soto. That sustained run established him among the division’s most active champions of the period.
His final successful defense came against Soto in September 2009. Sosa won by sixth-round knockout before returning to defend against Rodel Mayol in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico, on November 21.
The Mayol fight and later competition
Mayol took the championship by second-round technical knockout. The finish followed a head clash for which Mayol lost a point, before the action resumed and the challenger secured the stoppage. Sosa later competed at flyweight, with opponents including Pongsaklek Wonjongkam, Akira Yaegashi, Román González and Donnie Nietes.
His victories over world champions also included Gilberto Keb Baas, Noel Arambulet, Luis Alberto Lazarte, Ulises Solís and Giovani Segura. He beat Roberto Carlos Leyva twice. These results extended his record beyond the light flyweight championship run and supplied further evidence of his competitiveness against accomplished opponents in the smaller divisions.
Sources
- BoxRec: Sosa–Viloria championship result
- BoxRec: Sosa’s reign and ten successful defenses
- BoxRec: Sosa’s final defenses and the Mayol result
- BoxingScene: contemporary report of the Mayol–Sosa finish
- BoxRec: Sosa’s later opponents
