Humberto Soto Claims He Wants a Big Fight Against Amir Khan or Marcos Maidana

by Scott Christ on Nov 27, 2011 8:28 AM EST in Boxing News Analysis

Humberto Soto claims he wants a big fight, but it's a little hard to take him seriously. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

After scoring yet another routine win against an overmatched, lousy opponent last night in Mexico, former super featherweight and lightweight titlist Humberto Soto says he wants a big fight in 2012, against either Amir Khan or Marcos Maidana at 140 pounds.

Soto defeated Adailton De Jesus last night, adding him to a 2011 hit list that previously included Motoki Sasaki, Jose Alfaro, and Fidel Monterrosa. All of that came after Soto competed in a grueling Fight of the Year candidate in December 2010 against Urbano Antillon, after which Soto ducked a rematch with his fellow Mexican, which was originally scheduled for May 7 as the main co-feature on the Pacquiao vs Mosley pay-per-view.

This is a slight change of direction for Soto's claims of wanting big fights, as he signed with Golden Boy Promotions in September allegedly in large part because he wanted to make a fight with Erik Morales, who also holds a title at 140 pounds.

Considering Soto's level of opposition since his wide 2007 loss to Joan Guzman, you can probably just take his talk for nothing more but chatter that he hopes makes him look good until he signs another lame fight. He's 31 years old and he just doesn't have anything on his record to back up the idea that he really wants to fight top guys.

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I’ll believe him when we see it. He should have fought the rematch with Soto and he should be looking to fight Rios.

by RRod806 on Nov 27, 2011 9:29 AM EST via iPhone app reply actions

Yea, me too

Although I can’t lie, a fight with Maidana or Khan would be fun. Scott – 100% credit on the cintron v. alvarez call. I wasn’t convinced Cintron was completely a shot fighter. Now I realize that I should have been.

by rantcatrat on Nov 27, 2011 9:38 AM EST reply actions

What most annoys me about Soto is I think he’s good. I don’t need to see him with Khan, but I’d love to see him fight Maidana or Matthysse or Peterson or Morales or Olusegun or a whole host of other guys.

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by Scott Christ on Nov 27, 2011 9:49 AM EST up reply actions

He has world class talent, and had some buzz around him after the Antillon fight. It’s amazing it’s only been a year…………………..feels like it was many years ago.

by DPlainview on Nov 27, 2011 2:16 PM EST up reply actions

It’s a special kind of career mismanagement. Establish yourself as a guy to watch, then go make sure no one watches you.

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by Brent Brookhouse on Nov 27, 2011 3:56 PM EST up reply actions

He is a certain talent

Who,,,,for whatever reason….just doesn’t always want to fight. at least not regularly.

He has been his own worst enemy in building momentum

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer"
---- Muhammed Ali

by pakinpower on Nov 28, 2011 4:05 AM EST up reply actions

Actually he fights very regularly. But, well, define “fight” I guess.

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by Scott Christ on Nov 28, 2011 6:58 AM EST up reply actions

Meant to say not who he was intended to fight. He was resistant to matches proposed for him

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer"
---- Muhammed Ali

by pakinpower on Nov 28, 2011 8:16 AM EST up reply actions

All of that came after Soto competed in a grueling Fight of the Year candidate in December 2010 against Urbano Antillon, after which Soto ducked a rematch with his fellow Mexican

Well he never signed a contract for the rematch and was no longer under the Top Rank banner. So I don’t see how it can be called ducking. Arum knew the fight was not gonna happened. But kept promoting the PPV like it was

All of it. Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie. I want it all.

by Eugene Banks on Nov 27, 2011 5:07 PM EST reply actions

While I agree he’s wasting his career fighting nobodies, I still think on ability alone Soto is one of the top 10 junior welterweights in the world.

by Radu on Nov 28, 2011 1:47 AM EST reply actions

He’s right there with the back-end guys. I think he’d be a good matchup against Morales, a decent matchup with Olusegun, but I think some of the bigger guys (Maidana, Matthysse) would give him hell. David Diaz managed to give Soto some physicality problems at 135, even though Soto won clear and fair. At 140 he’s a pure matchup guy.

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by Scott Christ on Nov 28, 2011 7:05 AM EST up reply actions

I'm down.

I’d love to watch Soto/Maidana duke it out, or hell Soto Khan or even Judah for shits and giggles. 140 is a great division to watch right now and there’s many options for him. Personally, I think he’d match well against Khan, Maidana but he’d be a little too much for Morales.

by Cestus84 on Nov 28, 2011 2:21 PM EST reply actions