Hugo Cazares batters Badillo, eyes up unification fights.

Two-weight world champion, and current WBA super-flyweight champion, Hugo Cazares, returns on the 9th of July back in Mexico against Arturo Badillo after what will be a near 7 month absence. What was called an 'accident' in the gym has had him out since his win over Hiroyuki Hisataka in December.

Badillo's 28-1 record is deceiving, he's decent, not much more, and shouldn't offer the champ too much resistance. In his only minor step up in class, he was stopped in 7 by Ronald Barrera, who while very capable, loses to the best when he fights them(Calderon, Niida, Reveco and Romero among his defeats). Arturo has fought as high as super-bantam before, so should at least give former light-flyweight Cazares a problem in the size department if nothing else.

His post-fight plans are big:


“At this weight I feel strong, I feel fast, precise, and I believe that a unification bout against several fighters is possible. There are some mexicans and an argentine [Omar Narváez], who is a super flyweight of the WBO. So, we are in talks to get an approach from them [Narváez team], looking for a unification fight.”

If a unification fails to come to fruition, Hugo has contemplated another move up in weight, to the 122lbs division. He insists that if he were to move up he would be in the ''same condition'' as any other fighter at the weight because he possesses the tonnage, strength and punching power to successfully scale the weight classes. Another fight that he would love if given the chance would be against P4P contender Nonito Donaire, a fight he was offered in the past but turned down due to money issues:

“I had talks to that fight (against Donaire), unfortunately the promoters always want to win and they don’t want to recognize the whole path we have done. I was offered too little for that fight, and I think it is not fair for a double champion to receive a low payment for a really big fight, as it would be against Nonito Donaire.''

What do you make of it? How does Cazares do against the fellow champions in his division, Narvaez, Cristian Mijares and Tomas Rojas? How will his aggressive style translate at bantam? Is it a step too far for a 33 year old former 112 pounder?

If anyone of you speak Spanish, here's the full interview(translations are welcome):

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Cool story bro.

 

Cheers man. You'd think I'd get a bit disheartened from nobody ever seeming to care.

You should check Cazares out, unlike the other champs at super-fly that I always talk about that can be accused of being boring, Cazares is the opposite, he's an all-action fighter. His second fight with Nobuo Nashiro was a FOTY contender for last year, and round 12 was my ROTY. He's pushed Ivan Calderon very close twice also.

 

Retirement I hope. I still think he could compete with everybody in the division Gonzalez aside. But when you're a 36(?) year old, 5 foot tall light-flyweight who's lost his legs, it's not a good omen. I love the guy, and I wouldn't like to see him lose anymore fights.

Your dad sounds like the kind of guy I'd get along with.:yep

The lower weight classes are my favourites easily. It may sound crazy, but the thought of a Mijares-Rojas unification appeals more to me than say Haye-Klitschko. Then again, that may be because I like those two more than almost anybody else.:yep

If you ever need to know what fights would be best to watch amongst the little guys give me a shout.:good

Thanks by the way, I'll keep talking about these guys, even if I am talking to myself by the end of it.

 

Super-flyweight is my favourite weight at the moment, mainly because it's one of the only divisions where all four champions are quality. With three of them, Cazares, Cristian Mijares and Tomas Rojas, I think it's best to watch fights of theirs before and after certain points.

For instance, with Cazares, I'd say watch a few of his light-flyweight fights, like Dieppa and the Calderon double, and then watching the two Nashiro fights to see the transition he's made upon moving up in weight. Mijares has pre-Darchinyan and post-Darchinyan, Arce and Munoz are his two best fights prior to that, and his title win against Rosas is the best fight since his comeback. Rojas is good because of how much of an improvement he's made, he lost to the likes of Darchinyan and Penalosa, giving a good account of himself at the same time. It looked like he'd always be a good fighter but never a top of the division type, so it's interesting to see the improvement he's made, particularly when he beat Nashiro more convincingly than Cazares. There isn't much on Narvarz available on the web. The Seda fight on YouTube was only two months ago and may very well be his best performance against one of his best opponents, so I'd recommend that and pretty much any other footage of him you can find.

 

No worries pal, just don't watch Mijares-Darchinyan. It's too painful.:verysad:good

 

As you can probably tell, I'm one of Diamanté's biggest fans, but that's the only fight I've ever picked against him in. He's a fighter that needs to find a rhytem against good opponents. Most of the time he finds it pretty easy to get into, but Vic's brand of awkward aggression was never going to allow that. That, coupled with the fact that Vic's one of the hardest ever hitters at the weight.:yep