Rocky Juarez vs. Vicente Escobedo

A loss tomorrow should all but guarantee that he does, I'd imagine.

His career is at stake. He is a cornered animal, and that could make him dangerous ...at long last.

 

Yeah, but in his case it is only a discrepancy of a couple of years.

With Liston, Peter, and Nongqayi the gap between the most flattering and most conservative estimates is like a decade.

 

Apart from maybe Juarez over Escobedo, since the bookies have him a big dog thereby technically making that an upset...I can't really say so in all honesty.

Reawakened Arce should be able to pound down Nelson Mandela's diminutive great-uncle, unless he goes the way of Morales and has his magical carriage transform back into a pumpkin after just one throwback performance.

There doesn't look to be a single even remotely plausible upset on the German heavyweight card. Dimitrenko over Sprott, Chakhiev over Simms, Boytsov over Greer and Gomez over Ding-A-Ling all seem like more or less secure investments.

Maidana and Pirog should each be able to afford very bad nights and still fend off challengers who really have no right to step in with them other than the graciousness of ABC politics.

Even Adrian "The Confessor" Hernandez (the WBC 108lb champion who is by no means a real "World's Best Champion" but was simply matched beneficially with someone whose number he's always had and who happened to wear a belt into their rematch) should be an overwhelming favorite against the novice they lured away from safari guide apprenticeship back in Nongqayi's homeland.

 

Oh - and Gary Buckland should duplicate his mark from last year's Prizefighter by again knocking out current British super featherweight champ Gary Sykes...this time for the payload. :deal

 

:good Juarez and Guinn make almost perfect mirror images - except for the superficial matter of one being a little Mexican and the other being a huge black guy. :yep

 

Yeah, he was pretty successful. He won gold at the junior Olympics and later made it to the adult games but got bounced after one round.

Juarez probably had the better amateur career, though. He had nearly 200 bouts with like a 90% winning percentage and at one point rattled off like 70 wins in a row. He had some very impressive wins before turning pro (better than any since, actually), including one over Steven Luevano and one over Thai legend and former Olympic gold medalist Somluck Kamsing.