What are the opinions of the Classic on this beautifully schooled Filipino, Gerry Penalosa? I love to watch him work, he was technically very good. Defensively he wasn't accustomed to taking to many hard flush shots either, as evidenced by him never touching the canvas in his long career. When you watch him fight, it's hard to imagine what stopped Gerry from being a long reigning champion at Super Flyweight. He seemed pretty complete. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9TAxwll10[/ame]
Excellent little fighter from what I've seen, largely from the latter end of his career. I need to watch more of his prime stuff, but the last time I watched him was against Ponce de Leon when past his prime and above his best weight. I never scored the fight but remember thinking at the time that he did very well. Slipped and blocked most of Ponce de Leon's heaviest work while magnetizing his right hook to the latter's head for most of the fight. The scorecards were obscene. I've not seen the away from home losses to Cho or Tokuyama, which were supposedly close. Seemed like a tough, well-schooled little southpaw with good power (as the one shot win over Gonzales showed even at that late stage in Penalosa's career).
I have both the Choo and tokuyama fights in the mail along with more of his prime stuff. I'll upload it all for you, or if you buy off other collectors, we can do that too. I'm very intrigued to see if those were robberies or legit decisions.
Cheers fella. It'd be presumptious on my part to assume that they were bad decisions without seeing them, but such close margins of defeat in Japan....
...Absolutely. It's so hard to get a decision in Japan away from home. I was little skeptical about Yuh getting all these decisions in Korea, but I've watched 6 of his fights, and he won all of them..handily. If he had the power to go with the skill and toughness, he'd have been a wrecking machine.
Always liked him as others have said most of the fights I've seen are his recent stuff, would like to see his super flyweight fights. The guys has huge heart too.
Gerry Penalosa W12 Hiroshi Kawashima Gerry Penalosa KO9 Seung-Koon Lee Gerry Penalosa W10 Tomas Rojas Gerry Penalosa KO9 Mauricio Martinez Gerry Penalosa L12 Masamori Tonuyama II In-Joo Cho W12 Gerry Penalosa I Are the fights I have coming.
I haven't seen nearly as much of him as I'd like but I am a fan. Seen none of his early to mid fights, unfortunately. But how anybody could not be a fan after his brave shot at Lopez, I don't know. And when his eliminator bout comes up in February, I'll be pulling for him big time.
