By Miguel Rivera

Next up for rising lightweight prospect Felix Verdejo (15-0, 11KOs) is a bout against battle tested Karim El Ouazghari (16-5-2, 4KOs) on December 13th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The fight will be televised on UniMas.

Verdejo fought six times this year, stopping five of those opponents in three rounds or less, and only going the eight round distance with Oscar Bravo in August.

El Ouazghari went the distance last year with Sergey Fedchenko, was stopped in nine rounds by Kevin Mitchell and is coming off a fifth round TKO defeat to Stephen Ormond in April.

"We are already studying El Ouazghari. He is an experienced, strong guy, who went twelve round several times. We hope that he makes us fight for eight rounds," said trainer and manager Ricky Maruez to El Vocero.