Luis Collazo fighting for the first time since hand surgery beat Edvan Dos Santos Barros by a wide 10-round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the Trinidad-Jones undercard on January 19, 2008. Collazo was coming off a WBC welterweight interim title bout loss to Shane Mosley by a 12-round unanimous decision on February 10, 2007 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. During the bout Collazo apparently torn ligaments and fractured the thumb of his left hand requiring subsequent surgery. Previous to his fight with Mosley, Collazo won a close fight with Artur Atadzhanov on November 4, 2006.
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| Collazo vs TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Luis Collazo
Luis Collazo actually won the WBA Welterweight title in April 2005 by a 12-round split decision over the then defending champion Jose Antonio Rivera. The WBA had created a new category called Super Champion reserved for boxers who held titles recongized by the WBA from the WBC, IBF and WBO. So Collazo was not considered the definitive champion since Cory Spinks had been elevated to Super Champion status. Spinks lost to Judah who lost to Baldomir who had not paid the WBA sanctioning fees so in January 2006 Collazo became recognized as the sole WBA Welterweight champion.
Collazo lost his WBA title to Ricky Hatton by a 12-round unanimous decision in May 2006 in a fight that many fans felt was a questionable decision. It was a hard fought fight. Collazo was dropped in the 1st round by a left hook to the jaw and again in the 2nd round but that was ruled as a slip. Collazo suffered a deep scalp cut in the 3rd round which turned him into a bloody mess throughout the bout. Both fighters traded serious leather throughout the later rounds. Upon hearing the decision Collazo proclaimed he wanted a rematch. Collazo demonstrated that he belonged among the top fighters by giving Hatton his toughest fight yet.