Just watched the latest Cuban Heavyweight - Mike Perez live on RTE. 22 year old now fighting out of Ireland. Very impressed... Very Fast Hands (unusual for a Heavyweight these days!!) Southpaw Good Power In Shape (Unlike many Cuban Heavyweights (Solis!!! lol) He won every round against a Polish Journeyman tonite, putting the Pole on the canvas 3 times. I know he was only fighting a "bum" but its only his 3rd fight, with another couple of fights lined up over the next month. Im not saying hes the next Mike Tyson - but a good exciting fighter! Info at Boxrec... http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=438253&cat=boxer I will try and upload the video ASAP
Thanks! I guess he was a national champion in Cuba? If that's the case than he's damn good:yep because if you're a champion of cuba you can fight all over the world (amateur, but pro as well) Let's see if he makes it trough the pro ranks
I don't see how you could have been impressed with that performance.He was very lethargic and sloppy tonight.Maybe he was just ****ing around with the guy to get a few rounds in but i wasn't impressed. He does have very fast hands and he is in good shape
Same here. He didn't look in any better shape than Solis (worse I thought), and he was sluggish and sloppy and ran out of gas against an opponent with a 1-5 pro record. Color me unimpressed.
I actually think that he looked quite good against the pole. Not a fantastic performance by any means, but he easily outpointed him. I remember that the german based nigerian Gbenga Oloukun struggled alot against the pole (winning a sd/md), so in that comparison Perez looked rather good. Here you can find a couple of rounds from the fight http://www.rte.ie/sport/other/2008/0322/macklincampas_av.html
He was supposed to fight this saturday on the mccloskey undercard but got injured in that fight. I am going to his next fight on the bernard dunne undercard on april 12th.
i didn't know about this guy, but i can see cuba is gonna making noise in the heavyweight division. With guys like Solis and perez, hernandez is a cruserweight though..i hope he moves up like haye
