Jaime Aarón Munguía Escobedo vs. Gabriel Daniel Rosado

Mañana on DAZN @ Honda. WBO intercontinental middleweight title at stake, Munguía's second defense.

If successful, Munguía will be on a 4-0 streak against world rated contenders for the first time since moving up from 154lbs (having gone 6-0 against contenders in his WBO reign in that division, with even the lowly Patrick Allottey having been as high as #13 when he challenged) and 2-0 against consecutive onetime Gennady Golovkin victims. It wouldn't be his biggest name scalp, but on par with his best (ie Hurrigan Hogan, Spike O'Sullivan, Bad Boy Cook, Beefy Smith, Takeshi Inoue, Tureano Johnson, Sadam Ali and Kamil Szeremeta - pretty much all in the "good, not great" stratum).

For the Puerto Rican-Angeleno (by way of Philly) journeyman, however, a victory here over the full decade-younger Mexican would be a massive turnaround in his own pro career's twilight. Having knocked out powerful Uzbek southpaw Bully Melikuziev in June, another upset over an unbeaten and heavily favored opponent would have to cement King Gabe for, at the very least, Comeback of the Year in 2021, if not even Fighter of the Year. If you shift your criteria slightly from "calendar year" to just "365 day period", he also has a hell of an impressive year including holding former 2x middleweight champion Danny Jacobs to a SD in late November of 2020.

 

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