Interview done by Ryan Maquiñana of maxboxing.com the whole interview is there RM: You mentioned the one fight he’s been chasing is the one with fellow former super bantamweight champion, Juan Manuel Lopez, who has since moved up to featherweight and won the WBO version of the belt. Now Top Rank has seemingly put Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa on a collision course to meet sometime by the end of the year. How would you see a fight, stylistically, between Celestino and the other big names at 126 pounds, namely Lopez, Gamboa, and Chris John This content is protected ? JM: Basically, I think Celestino needs this fight and one more fight so he can fight how I want him to. I want him to box from a distance and use every inch of his height to maximize it. That’s a point we haven’t gotten to yet, but he understands what I want. It still goes back to being a puncher and having a warrior’s heart. He doesn’t mind being in the trenches, because that’s where he feels he needs to be to finish a guy. So basically, we need to find a happy medium between the both of us and, to be honest, he’s probably the biggest puncher even at 126. He’s a devastating puncher and once he maximizes his reach, he’s going to be trouble for all those guys. Gamboa can be dangerous because he has good power and very fast hands. He’s also tough to fight inside. But, at the same time, he’s also been down before, and he hasn’t fought anybody either. So I already know then, if he fights Celestino, he’s going to stay down, and if he gets up, he’s going to go right back down. I don’t think too much at all about Chris John. I don’t think Lopez really wants to fight. Lopez is a very good fighter, but I don’t think that much of him as I do than I do Gamboa, either. Gamboa is the biggest risk at 126.
Hard to disagree on this. What about the still active 126 lbs guy that beat the former P4P #2 (JMM) named Chris John? Is he that irrelevant?
