BRIAN VILLORIA

Deep in training the past one-and-a-half months, Filipino-American world light-flyweight Brian Viloria is not looking past Mexican Jesus Iribe in their August 29 slugfest at the Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii.

“I have been looking at tapes and looking for his tendencies in the ring,” Viloria said during a teleconference call staged by Solar Sports on Tuesday in the company’s corporate headquarters in Makati.

Viloria, who will make the first defense of the International Boxing Federation (IBF) 108-lb crown he won by knockout over Ulises Solis last April at the Araneta Coliseum, has been working out in Oxnard, California.

“I have to put my best foot forward. This is a dangerous fight,” said Viloria, whose parents are from Ilocos Sur.

Viloria packs a 25-2-0 win-loss-draw card with 15 knockouts, while Iribe sports a 15-5-5 card with nine knockouts. Iribe comes from the town of Culiacan, the home of Mexico’s No. 1 fighter, Julio Cesar Chavez.

Also participating in the phone-patch were Solar president and CEO Wilson Tieng and COO Peter Chanliong and Garry Gittelsohn, Viloria’s Los Angeles-based manager.

“This is a fight that everyone would like to see,” said Tieng.

“We are teaming up with a top concert and sports event producer in Tom Moffat for this show,” said Chanliong.

Gittelsohn said big things are in store for Viloria if the Hawaiian Punch emerges victorious.

Solar Sports is beaming the fights to the Philippines, US mainland and to the world.

Tickets to the fights range from a low of $35 to a high of $300, according to Chanliong.

Seeing action in the undercard are super-fly AJ Banal (against Victor Proa) and possibly super-lightweight Dennis Laurente and light-fly Denver Cuello.