+Reigning WBO bantamweight king Gerry Penalosa and WBO superbantam titlist Daniel Ponce De Leon will meet in a highly-anticipated rematch in February, a report on philboxing.com said.

Golden Boy Promotions vice-president and international matchmaker Eric Gomez confirmed the rematch and said that the Penalosa-De Leon tiff should be every Filipino's dream fight. "We are now working on this one. It should take place in February in the Philippines, and we are currently working with our partner SGG Promotions and ALA to do it there," Gomez told philboxing.com editor Salven Lagumbay.

Filipino promoter Sammy Gello-ani, who heads the SGG Sports Promotions, also confirmed yesterday the plan to do a rematch between the two world champions, indicating that television giant ABS-CBN will air the fight, the boxing website said.

"It should take place sometime middle of February," the Filipino promoter said.

Penalosa is coming off a seventh-round stoppage of Mexican Jhonny Gonzalez in the World Cup on Aug. 11 to win the WBO title.

De Leon, who owns a controversial win over Penalosa in their first encounter in April, beat Filipino Rey 'Boom Boom' Bautista via technical knockout. *

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