gerry penalosa as a super flyweight.

He was a good tidy fighter with an excellent chin-skilled but very methodical. not one of the upper-echelon Super Flyweights.Next level down certainly though.Lots of close decisions throughout his career, but to be honest i'd need to watch the more relevant ones again to offer a more up to date opinion.Been over ten years since i saw his fights with Tokuyama and Cho and i never thought either of them was anything special so being in debatable fights with them only goes so far for me.

 

Well he was hardly a champ for long, whereas Tapia was.Even though he wasn't fighting the most inspiring competition.

I think Tapia at his best was a more talented fighter, though i wouldn't be surprised if a fight with Penalosa would have been close.Tapia could fool about in there a lot.

 

Very good matchup Gerry Vs Johnny actually.

Penelosa had an incredible chin, really. I think taking him over his career he becomes a very good fighter.

Just at super fly? Think I have one of those Cho fights, but don't recall actually watching it.

 

Please allow me to provide insight.

Calling Penalosa the most skilled Filipino boxer in history might not be farfetched. He's still very effective even when he aged. The guys has wide arsenal of punches and good defensive abilities.

He's lone loss before being a champion was a fight with a significantly bigger Samuel Duran. A man who ended up winning the OPBF featherweight title. And there were reports that it was too close to call.

Nevertheless, he was avoided for a full year as mandatory before getting his long overdue title shot. He made the most out of it and made two defenses.

Then came the long spell with losses. Here's where it puts Penalosa's career and abilities. He's an excellent counter-puncher, a very patient guy who waits for the right time to land his shots. He's not a very big puncher but due to his impeccable timing, he get's the full effect on his blows. Now for a guy as good as he is, he is quite slow of foot. He doesn't have bad footwork or anything, he knows where to position himself when countering, but he has a hard time catching up when the other guy will not initiate and instead use the ring. Hence the losses, albeit close, to Cho and Tokuyama. Both men superb runners.

Johnny Gonzales attempted to apply the same gameplan but he's was unable to keep it for the entire 12 rounds, allowing Penalosa to sneak the fight ending bodyshot. Unfortunately, Morel has excellent footwork as well and used distance.

The losses to De Leon and JuanMa were more of being too small at 122.

 

You'd have to look through the scorecards thread to see my exact scores, but I've seen all of his losses at Super Flyweight. I had him winning all four fights against Tokuyama and Cho. You have to keep in mind that Gerry was in his opponent's backyard on all four occasions.

 

I don't have enough knowledge of the division's history to begin to rank him alongside the greats, but he was wrongly denied a longer stint as champion. Cho and Tokuyama were rangy boxers who kept the fights at a distance, but no way did either of them do enough to win their respective fights with Gerry. I remember one decision in particular being particularly embarrassing. It may have been the second Cho fight. Penalosa should have gone down as an outstanding Super Flyweight champion.

I uploaded a couple of Gerry's fights on Youtube, LufCrazy. Kawashima, Rojas, and Seung Koo Lee.