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JOEBERT ALVAREZ MAKES THE SAME MISTAKE AS PRINCE ALBERT PAGARA
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 18 Jul 2016
26 year old Filipino flyweight prospect Joebert Alvarez made the same mistake as previously unbeaten super bantamweight Prince Albert Pagara and suffered a stunning 1st round knockout against 24 year old Miguel "No Fear" Cartagena of Philadelphia in Kissimmee Civic Center in Florida over the weekend.
Nicknamed 'The Little Pacquiao' Alvarez started aggressively and hammered Cartagena with solid jabs and straights early in round one but Cartagena quickly turned the fight around when he
floored Alvarez with a left hook late into the round and although Alvarez recovered, Cartagena connected with a flurry of punches to drop the Filipino one more time.
While Alvarez beat the count he was clearly on wobbly legs and the referee promptly called a halt wiyth 46 seconds remaining in the opening round.
The loss dropped Alvarez to 15-2-1 with 7 knockouts while Cartagena improved to 15-3 with 6 knockouts. Alvarez who whose only previous setback was to WBO/WBA flyweight champion Juan
Francisco Estrada in a close battle had won the vacant WBO-North American Boxing Organization flyweight title with a smashing knockout of Jonathan Gonzalez in Puerto Rico last
March.
Joebert's trainer, "Dodong" Donaire, the trainer/father of five division world champion Nonito "The Filipino Flash" Donaire told The Standard he did pretty good and hurt the guy
(Cartagena) he just jumped in there and tried to knock him out early in the round and went after Cartagena without protecting himself and admitted that was "a big mistake
because that is not our strategy."
Donaire lamented the fact that a title fight in September has to be put back and "we have to start all over again."
Discussing the 8th round KO of Prince Albert Pagara, Donaire said "Remember I told you that Cesar Juarez is very dangerous. He has no talent but he has the heart and he trains hard. He doesn't care if he hurts you or not but he keeps throwing punches."
Donaire said it depends on promoter Bob Arum but added, "you know Nonito he will fight anybody."
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