Mijares lost to Cermeno again yesterday

that just it, he was all hype...The guys record said he wasnt that good, but he had a small group of bigtime sackswings that keep claiming ROBBERY in all his loses. for a time I didnt really know because I hadnt saw many of his fights. But I got a chance to watch a couple of those so-called robberies and came to the concludions that he was a hype job as our European brothers would say. he is the kicker he was winning the fights in which the guys were claiming he was robbed...Too many SD vs lower level fighters. I think one poster once said that he had 6 or 7 SD wins. that number is much to high for a so-called elite fighter.

 

no

Koki Kameda did

 

Darchinyan ruined Mijares.

 

Anybody remember Amsterdam..lol

 

:rofl

 

Cristian Mijares unified at Super Flyweight by defeating contenders Jose Navarro, Alexander Munoz, and practically posing a shutout over household name Jorge Arce. Perhaps even more impressive than any of that was his ability to go over to Japan and actually earn himself a decision over a very good fighter in Kawashima. He would go back, again, and score a decisive knockout victory. Cristian consistantly fought tough opposition, some of the best fighters in his weight class, and quite frankly, a few other names in Boxing today could follow suit. He earned everything that came his way.

In regards to the split decision victories he earned himself. Did you even sit down and watch his fights with Navarro and Munoz? You may not have heard much of these two fighters, but they are highly respectable opposition, and Cristian boxed both of their ears off. Sometimes judging can either be corrupt or just misconstrued - in any event, no way should they have been split decision victories. I suggest you go and watch the tapes. We can score the fights together if you're heart is in it?

Cristian Mijares has been on a downward spiral ever since he was dismantled by the tough Vic Darchinyan. He perhaps deserved his loss on Saturday Night, most accounts seem to say as much, but that doesn't mean everything he achieved has to be undone. He was not a result of Amsterdam's hype - he unified his decision beating solid contenders and champions along the way. His performance over Jorge Arce was a thing of beauty.

P.S - I also give credit to Mijares for daring to be great. He went after Darchinyan, and had he been successful, no doubt he would have gone on to fight the likes of Donaire and Montiel. He tried to clear up at Super Flyweight...he fell short. No need to **** over the guy.

 

Mijares was a good fighter. Still is a good fighter, but I think he also suffers a lack of confidence at this stage. He won't be the same, or I doubt it.

The problem is when there is so much hype as he got, its a big fall, people judge him based on what he was supposed to achieve and failed to rather than what he actually did achieve. He was a good world champ.

 

Agree.

 

Michael Nunn comes to mind.

 

good post

 

The moment I saw Mijares a couple of years ago when the hype by Amsterdam was at its highest, I already knew that when he faces a fighter who walks through his very glaring weakness, he is done,

Mijares is a very good disciple of the "sweet Science" as many call it but he seriously lacks power. He will always be good against some fighters but against someone who swarms like Darchi, he was a sitting duck.

Poor amsterdam, all of his "God" fell like dominoes in a very short time. Guzman, Mijares. His last of the "triumvirate" as he called it was Gamboa. Although Gamboa is still activelyfighting, his career is going nowhere. His next fight is against Whyber Garcia (who?). The threads that Amsterdam started were classic out of touch threads like "If Pac and Gamboa fight in 2008, ....", "Who do you think will be pound for pound number 1 in three years - my pick is Mijares." His only redeeming asset is his unflagging convistion in his fighters.

 

It was a great journey for him. Won against some good opposition and aimed high.

The loss definitely took a lot from him.

 

I don't know what has happened to Mijares, but he was graceful in the ring pre- Darchinyan.

Say what you want to say about the guy, but he was one damn fine boxer before totally losing it all. :-(

 

Is Mijares second to Nunn? :think

 

He pretty much exemplified the style that I like best. :good