Making a fight with the Triple-Title World recognized Lightweight Champion, Nate ?Galaxxy Warrior? Campbell, 32-5-1, 25 KO?s, are in feverish talks to get him to fight Golden Boy?s Juan Manuel Marquez, 48-4-1, 35 KO?s, for a possible October 25th date if all comes to terms with Don King who has rights to Campbell?s services.
The fight interests Marquez for two reasons. One is to capture triple WBA/IBF/WBO crowns with a win over Nate, and the other is to get the fans clamoring for a third bout with Manny Pacquiao, who if not the second best fighter on the planet, could be nearly favored to being the come from behind P4P entrant to unseat Floyd Mayweather, JR.
Manny will fight David Diaz, so the extra added weight to get the fight in a lightweight division would enthrall the public to solidly support a rubber match each can participate in.
In other news?there is talk of former WBA Lightweight Champion Juan Diaz?s return to the Houston, Texas, area for a possible September date. Diaz was badly cut over his eye in his last fight against Nate Campbell, who relinquished his belt.
Juanma Lopez Makes it to the Big Stage
They?re screaming ?Juanma,? with undefeated 24-year old Juan Manuel Lopez, 21-0, 19 KO?s. They caught up with Juanma in an interview for PRIMERA HORA, and the youngster is as confident in his preparatory as he hits the speed bags and gets some of the medicine ball to toughen those abs. He?s preparing for the fight of fights against WBO Super Bantamweight Champion, Daniel Ponce de Le?n M?ndez for June 7th Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, as the supporting card to World Middleweight Champion Kelly Pavlik who?ll take on Gary Lockett, with both bouts to be transmitted Live on HBO.
Lopez says, ?I am in my style. They?re persons that are thinking I?m going to go out and run during twelve rounds ? but that is not going to be the case. I?ll make my fight, that?ll be half distances (of ring), and yes there?s where you utilize your boxing. You box? and should I need to fight I?ll fight. I know there?ll going to be some adjustments (beforehand), watch for his right hand, and strong left hand.?
In Ponce ‘de Leon there is a very confident fighter who doesn?t believe Lopez presents the kind of challenge he?s thus far has gone through comparing careers, and he may be right there. Lopez may not have the same experiences that he?s had in pro fights; but that can be overlooked with the understanding about Lopez?s bombastic hooking right hand that has knocked out more opponents then his naturally gifted left as southpaw.
When Lopez cracks the right to his opposition?s head or temple, they usually get so dazed their equilibrium gives way to rubbery legs that inexplicably don?t respond too well in holding up.
I?ve seen that weapon from him in 2003 as an amateur?and in the way he turns it over for fuller impact pivoted from his back foot, knocks his opponents cold.
The Caguas, Puerto Rican resident whose originally from Rio Piedras Puerto Rico, raps up more about the outcome of this fight, concluding, ?What I?ve said prior, that I didn?t see this one going the distances of 12 rounds, perhaps finishes now before the 10th.?
This Taino renegade will tangle with the Aztec warrior in Ponce de Leon for his WBO Title, and the fireworks have all indicators of a most prolific knockout pending for the loser to be sent home packing.
Playing a little devils advocate here, Lopez looks ready to go, that he?s not concerned in the least in hitting a man called Ponce de Leon, who happened to be the first governor of Puerto Rico, or even lesser about Cristobal Col?n (Columbus) being conquistador.
Something tells me, a gut feeling if you will, that this fight will resemble a type of barbarism unseen in the boxing annuals.
Jeff Haney?s Article on De La Hoya Went Too Far?
In the Las Vegas Sun, writer Jeff Haney, the other day had a pretty emblematic description about an undisclosed named writer?s qualm from a California newspaper regarding a defiant Oscar De La Hoya?s comments regarding some generalized authorities.
In Haney?s expos? De La Hoya apparently feels jaded at the treatment his fighters have had over numerous amount of years, ascertaining amongst stiff decision making to perhaps the sublime.
There can be irreconcilable differences. A fighter usually thinks they won, but a promoter who represents their fighter may know differently.
It wasn?t so much that there wasn?t so much weighing on a DLH fighter? as it could?ve been hearing discourses about judging from the major messenger himself. Can a De La Hoya really find biases against his fighting stable?and get support on the initial dissension from the public at large?or wouldbe expectant favoritisms sway in the other direction?
Here?s hoping that we shouldn?t forget a great democracy gets anchored just because a disagreement ensues about fairness in this State of ours.
