JUAN MA LATEST PUERTO RICAN FLOP!
San Juan, PR– With the devestating performance that propelled Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KOs) to a TKO 4 victory over Juan Manuel Lopez (33-3, 30 KOs) in Dallas, TX and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (22-3-1, 19 KOs) losing by Majority Decision to Yasutaka Ishimoto (22-6, 5 KOs) on an April card in China, this essentially closed the book on the careers of fighters that were thought to be heirs to the Puerto Rican pugilistic throne once held by the likes of Felix Trinidad, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Vazquez Sr., Edwin Rosario and Wilfred Benitez.
Wilfredo Gomez-Carlos Zarate
PUERTO RICAN BOXERS VICTIMIZIED BY WITCHCRAFT?
The island’s prospects have been falling one by one, especially to their fistic arch rivals Mexico. It’s gotten so bad that the boxing aficionados started laying blame. First it was the matchmaking, next they were being rushed into deep water before they could swim. Another debate put the onus on the trainers, while another said it was witchcraft. Enough already, both Orlandito del Valle (17-1, 12 KOs) and Jason Velez(20-0, 15 KOs) left their trainer and went off the island as Del Valle is now being trained by Nacho Beristain and Velez with Abel Sanchez.
WHAT THE HELL WENT DOWN IN LONDON?
The Juan Ma KO just added more gas to a fire that started a month ago when the undeated Jose Chelo Gonzalez(22-1, 17 KOs) went to London to challenge Ricky Burns (38-2, 11 KOs) for Burns’ WBO135 lb. belt. In a fight he is clearly winning (87-84 on all three scorecards) Chelo decides to stays on the stool prior to round 10 claiming a wrist injury. Right after the boxing blogs blow up criticizing the kid saying, “Felix fought a whole fight with a broken hand, Gomez kept going with a broken cheek bone against Salvador Sanchez, and so forth.
CHELO ALMOST BEHEADED BY FANS & PUNDITS!
When Chelo came home he was expecting his people to console him but the island attacked him with zeal as they were questioning both his heart and why couldn’t the corner get him through the adversity?
“GREATNESS” CAN COME EARLY FOR SOME
Look, all the ring greats from Puerto Rico have been matched up “tough” early in their careers. Take super bantamweight (122 lb.) champion Wilfredo Gomez (44-3, 42 KOs) only had 22 fights under his belt when he faced bantamweight (118) king Carlos Zarate (66-4, 63, KOs) who had a record of 52-0 at the time and Gomez stomped him inside of five rounds. Felix Trinidad (42-3, 35 KOs) had only 23 bouts when he faced “Yory Boy” Campas (101-17-1, 79 KOs) who was 56-0 and Trinidad finished him via TKO 4.
“MAD MANNY” HAS DA’ BOTTOM LINE ON P.R. BOXING
It’s not them being matched too strong, or is it witchcraft or the trainers. No, it’s the current generation and their not taking the sport serious, making a circus of things with all that dirty laundry being exposed via Internet fights, not making weight, demanding too much to fight a guy and thinking this is a beauty contest instead of a form of combat sports, that’s the real problem!
‘Mad Manny” Caballero