Humberto Soto

First off, the man is incredibly fun to watch. Really good pop when he was at FW, good finishing instincts, very good chin, counter punched better than you'd expect for a fighter who's always coming forward. But that's not what this thread is about...

Is he the most hard done by man in boxing today? Excluding those who have tragic health issues in retirement I think he just might be.

The guy turned pro out of absolute necessity to feed his family, didn't really know what he was doing when he first started and figured things out as he went along. In his 9th fight he was in against a man who would later challenge for a world title and lost. He worked his way up the hard way before getting a shot in the biggest fight of his career to that point against Kevin Kelley. He got jobbed in that fight, IMO. So he rebuilds. It takes a 5 year, 21 fight undefeated streak for Humberto to get a shot at a real featherweight title. He loses a clear UD to Guzman and 2 fights later gets absolutely robbed in the true worst performance of Cortez' career with a pathetic/miserable/indefensible DQ against Francisco Lorenzo (you've all probably seen this but if you haven't you should check it out, I have never seen Manny Steward half as mad as he was that night). Since that fight Humberto is 22-1 with the loss coming against Matthyse in a fight he was winning on my card before getting stopped. The 22-1 streak has included taking Rocky Juarez's zero, beating a faded but game Jesus Chavez, moving up and beating David Diaz for the vacant WBC lightweight title, and most recently looking pretty good in beating John Molina Jr last September. He's riding a 7 fight win streak since the Matthyse loss and is fighting Frankie Gomez next month! Tough test for Frankie and another opportunity for Humberto to prove himself as the tough out he's always been. I'll be pulling for you Humberto!!!

He's only 34 years old (35 by the time he fights Frankie) but he's had 76 fights! He might not be doing it all that much longer so ladies and gents, a moment for the underappreciated Humberto Soto. :bbb

 

Nope! I just always liked him and felt he couldn't catch a break. Tune in for his fight with Frankie :bbb

 

I absolutely couldn't believe it. When I saw that he was fighting Frankie I assumed Humberto had to be pushing 40 by now if not already on the wrong side of 40.

 

By the way, Humberto is coming off the longest layoff of his 14 year career for the Frankie Gomez fight. How long? 8 months! That's the most time off the man has had in 14 years!

 

I'd love to, but Danny Garcia already took all the good breaks.

 

Great post. And if you think, like me, that Humberto won pretty clearly against Kevin Kelley (I had it 8-4 I believe) then without the Kelley and Lorenzo losses I think it's actually 50-2 in the last 14 years! The worst part about that Lorenzo DQ is watching that scum Keith Keisser watching the replay with Lampley's and going "there, right there. That's the illegal blow that cause the concussion" while we see Humberto make the very definition of glancing contact. Manny Steward was so mad he couldn't even talk to Keisser.

If Humberto and Danny ever meet then Humberto would have to knock Danny down in every round to get a draw. Garcia's career is the antithesis of Humberto's.