Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Alfredo Angulo Back In The Ring?
Alfredo Angulo will be fighting on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights this Friday. I'm really not sure of what the problems with his management are but he has no business fighting these opponents. Angulo has not even fought 20 fights and hes fighting a veteran like Kermit Cintron? Kermit Cintron is no easy work at all this man was a champion a bit over a year ago and his losses were disputed. He has had 20 more fights, he was recently a world champion in a division full of great competition, he recently fought one of the top light middleweights in the world, and was a contender for a world championship, not to mention that Cintron despite recently moving up to light middleweight signed on to fight Paul Williams for unification though the fight did not happen due to a hand injury. I know what you may be thinking I'm pro- Cintron. Not true at all I'm by no means pro Cintron i'm just stating the facts. Alfredo Angulo is being pushed too fast by his management team and HBO. HBO wanted to showcase him as their future talent and wanted to have him knock off these tomato can fighters and make him look good. I knew coming into that fight Angulo lacked the experience to be facing a Kermit Cintron a fighter who is trying to rebuild his career after losing his belt. It was a matchup about who wanted it more. Angulo wanted it to be a fight, and Cintron wanted it to be a boxing match. It ended up being a boxing match with Cintron controlling the match with his movement and his right jab in the earlier rounds. This is what set up Cintron for the victory. Alfredo Angulo now coming off that devistating loss is matching up with Gabriel Rosado who just defeated Kassim Ouma who is a quality opponent. This has to be the best win of his career by far. Kassim Ouma who once fought for the middleweight championship of the world and held the light middleweight title that has to be a hell of an accomplishment. Now with HBO not giving him any money, nor TV time Angulo is fighting on ESPN where he should have been fighting all along! he was 10 fights in and already fighting on HBO! HBO should know better than to sign a prospect who lacks rounds to a contract to appear on perhaps the biggest boxing network co headlining cards. Before Cintron it was Ricardo Mayorga a matchup I was glad that we didnt see because Mayorga would have been bringing the action the whole fight. Angulo needs to change management and slowly bring himself up to fight quality opposition. Cintron was all wrong for him at this stage of his career. He should be building himself up, getting more challenging fights, and fighting fighters on his level and then gradually get to a stage to where he can fight a Kermit Cintron or a Gabriel Rosado. I cant predict a winner I dont know how Angulo will "rebound" but we'll see Friday Night. Angulo vs Rosado on ESPN 2 Friday Night be sure to watch it
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Very good article and one of the first "real" accounts of the Cintron/Angulo fight. As you stated, Cintron dominated Angulo on that night. While I do think Angulo was rushed a bit, on that night I don't think we saw a flawed Angulo, rather, I think we saw a much improved and polished Cintron. Cintron was that "Angulo" when he first stepped into that Las Vegas ring against Margarito when he also had his first professional loss. Although it was far from perfect, he had since taken a path back and remained true to his dream of being a world champion. Cintron is right back in the thick of things but it took 4+ years to get there. Angulo can do the same, if he's patient and keeps working hard and learning as he goes. Don't forget, Cintron only has 2 professional losses and both are to Margarito. It's been a most challenging career to date but he's proven you can rebound from an early and devastating loss if you want it badly enough. I for one feel Angulo will be back!
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