Repeat or Revenge
The great news about to proceed is that our own Team-RSR member, IBF Welterweight Champion Kermit Cintron is just about to be getting ready for his HBO Live Broadcast against former WBO Welterweight champion Antonio Margarito, in a highly anticipated rematch.
This fight has both redemption and revenge qualitative ingredients in it with a ?can?t miss? finality that?ll keep everyone glued on that tube, if you won?t make it there yourself.
WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto was asked about this rematch and commented: ?It is an excellent match up. I understand that Kermit has matured a great deal since his past combat against Margarito? and would know to do the necessary adjustments to make a great fight and obtain the victory.?
Cotto making a bit more emphasis, reiterated: ?I don?t know if Margarito has lost a step, but I understand that that part in which level he may find himself in, Kermit has gone maturing and growing as a person, and as a boxer. And from what I understand about it is that he has all of the tools to defeat Margarito.?
The Cintron-Margarito Rematch is high risk and high reward for both men and is certainly high reward for the fans.
Honey Boy Returns
Not many men have been able to last the 12 round distance with Roy Jones, JR., at the height of his light heavyweight rule, and sit with their nieces and nephews, or children on their lap to tell the tale.
So was the case when former WBA Light Heavyweight champion Lou ?Honey Boy? Del Valle knocked RJJ down in their ?97 bout, and Lou, undaunted even at the intro bouncing fully with plenty spunk and sass, got the 10-8 of a lifetime, that?s who ?Honey Boy? Lou Del Valle is!
He?s slated to return this upcoming January 31st under Star Boxing show, tabbed ?Punchin? at the Paradise,? as he gets back with his old promoter friend in the Bronx.
Before welterweight Luis Collazo tweaked slick boxing moves with razzle-dazzle, Honey Boy?s set the standard. He used the quickness and footwork to put Jones out of step, and then struck, forcing the great Roy Jones, JR., to fall down with a thud beneath the ropes, and it went so fast, so surreal, that the punch got there faster than the blink!
Lou?s a cruiserweight, a variant to the smaller heavyweight. He?ll don the gloves and robe at the Utopia Paradise Theatre, Bronx, New York, and he?ll be up against the Bronx?s Newton ?The Butcher? Kidd, 6-6-1, 4 KO?s, in a 10-round cruiserweight feature.
Del Valle went on the losers end out in Denmark last September against John Jensen, but isn?t having any reluctances maintaining active, and seeing his foreseeable dealt cards played directly straight on the table. ?I took that fight with two weeks notice fighting for the Continental WBA belt. It was a difficult period in my life (accepting the fight).? Del Valle giving details elaborates further saying: ?But I think I won that fight. My punches and myself taking five low blows that caused me to be on the canvas three times. He never hit me, only using head butts did he hit me. They robbed me. They wouldn?t ever have given him the fight had the bout been here in the USA.?
Lou is geared to go and attempt to recapture some of the glory that he once had when he dropped an all time great to the canvas.
The Possibilities for Edwin Valero
Last December?s Cancun debut deliverance of junior-lightweight Edwin ?The Liquidator? Valero, 23-0, 23 KO?s, has created a stir.
What the Edwin Valero vault of excruciating knockouts has brought onto the YouTube generation is what would have made the late Fight-film-collectors like Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Cayton to place injunctions as to preventing imagery on what Cayton and Jacobs could have done without getting adequate permission.
I?ll tell you one other thing; had either Jimmy or Bill have the rights for Edwin Valero; he would have been fighting for his next world title by now; and not engaging in innuendos with media hounds about whether or not he should be fighting for another organization. Where have we all heard that before?
You wouldn?t ask Juan Manuel Marquez or Manny Pacquiao those redundant kinds of questions, and if you?re still in the dark about as to why that story doesn?t do a thing for Valero in actuality, its because of the need to know on whether Texas will be the State that bails Edwin out of an MRI dilemma that?s failed since January 2004, which was about as recent if my memory serves me correctly as then when Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez first tangled less than four months later.
Hype is always a good thing, particularly when it doesn?t die on the vine. If my hunch is right, they?ll squeeze enough to make the back of the eagle?s quarter piece scream for a third Pacquiao-Marquez rubber match; and a shortsighted trip to Canastotaa forgone conclusion?with or without no Oscar De La Hoya sanctuary in sight.
Manny Pacquiao wouldn?t be forthright in fighting an intriguing match not because he doesn?t want to. And properly so you wouldn?t see the same pattern that Bob Arum took to place through the ringer a Miguel Cotto going through Zab Judah and then Sugar Shane Mosley Back-to-back.
Such savvy and profusion about Arum as he?s carefully brought Fox Sports? ?Fighter of The Year? Cotto up gradually, leading to his recent high profile and highly skilled opponents.
In many ways Valero mirrors another fighter who once came from Brazil at a junior lightweight category named Acelino ?PoPo? Freitas. Most of his preferred stock and trade relied on his punching prowess at 130 pounds, and then his trials and tribulations suddenly began moving upwards.
Edwin ?El Inca? Valero?s mane resembles that of Merengue crooner Elvis Crespo?s, with designs to his locks at times not seen since I witnessed the resurgence of the group KISS with the Gene Simmons makeup in likeness of a Samurai warrior.
I have to disagree with Bob Arum a little about just whom Edwin Valero is, that nobody knows him, and only the hardcore boxing fan knows. He forgets that had this been in the era of ABC, NBC, and CBS picking up the fights like they had done for the last two giant promoters, Valero would be as in that conclave of a Roberto ?Hands of Stone? Duran.
They have to cater to them in unusual ways in order to get them to fight. With free TV, the only legitimate motivation needed was the station and their affiliates, and if you showed to serve the purposeful fortitude in a fight; you got a call back to return.
Today you have a fighter with an 11-0 record unfortunately ranked for a world title; something I have yet seen since the late junior-middleweight Davey Moore, 8-0, 5 KO?s. We also have come to some trepidation as to what sells hotter, quality or quantity? Sometimes it is possible to get both.
Edwin Valero will eventually become a household name with his power and charisma, despite the politics of boxing and medical problems that are proving to be more of an obstacle than his opponents.
