The Future of CUBA in the Pros, by Weightclasses. (List Inside) ***UPDATED/VIDEO***

Collado was a super bantam. He came back after a long layoff two weight classes north of that. I had written him off already.

 

Ah, hadn't realized that. So he was, per his record.

Still, that is really no excuse.

Daniel Ponce De Leon was a bantamweight, carried his power up to lightweight.

Morales was a career super bantam and still fought on even terms against welterweights eons past his prime.

Countless other examples. Climbing 13lbs over six years with a schedule that was, let's face it, until last night very soft before & since the layoff, shouldn't be that great an inhibition to someone with as much potential as he supposedly had.

He towered over Salka, weighed in a pound more and certainly looked to have rehydrated more (albeit mostly with flab).

This wasn't a poor little fella getting manhandled...just a lazy slob who clearly didn't find it worth mustering the effort in camp to preserve his zero (which along with his "defecting Cuban sensation" mystique, had been his golden ticket - now shredded)

 

KING KONG BOXING ‏@kingkongboxing 22 t
About to sign 122 Cuban star Markos Forestal who recently defected from Cuba he is going to stir things up for the 122

 

Cool!!

 

May 1

At Hialeah, Fla. (ESPN2/ESPN Deportes)
Special Thursday edition of "Friday Night Fights,

Yunieski Gonzalez and Vilier Qounonez both undefeated cubans in action

 

Yes, he got clocked nicely and didn't seem to recover well. Up until then he was looking fair, which isn't saying much since it happened in the second round I think. Maybe he's just not a fighter. Or maybe his conditioning isn't good enough to box while also getting hit himself.

I agree it's not an excuse and he couldn't have fought at a lower weight had he wanted to. I'm always worried when Cubans move up in weight. Collado didn't move up because he was training boxing hard, that's for sure. Hence why I stopped paying much attention to him. To be the best you simply have to train like the best. The same with Ugas when he came over. He had just moved up to 64 kg after going whole tournaments at lightweight when he became pro and then suddnely barely made welter. His first loss came as he had slowly worked himself down towards 140 again. I don't think he was training hard. Solis looking for clean hits and not putting in any work against Thompson is another example. The other irish Cubans are also not putting in the work from what one hears.

Maybe Collado never had it but I think he could have done more. A couple of years too late though.

 

Weights from Hialeah Park in Miami
Roberto Garcia 146.2 vs. Victor Cayo 150 (third attempt)
Jonathan González 162.8 vs. Rogelio Medina 165.8 (second attempt)
Yunieski Gonzalez 176.4 vs. Jaison Palomeque 179.2
James McGirt Jr. 161.6 vs. Larry Smith Jr. 157.6
Juan Carlos Velásquez 128.2 vs. Rogers Mtagwa 127.8
Carlos Iván Velásquez 133.6 vs. Guillermo Sanchez 133.8
Vilier Quiñones 176.8 vs. Edgar Perez 178.4
Ahmed Elbiale 174 vs. Steven Chadwick Jr. 171.8
Jeff Souffrant 146 vs. Jorge Quintero 145.8

Venue: Hialeah Park Racing & Casino, Miami, Florida
Promoter: Warriors Boxing
TV: ESPN Thursday Night Fights

 

Mendez vs Barthelemy rematch july 10 in Miami

 

Vilier Quiñones and Yunieski Gonzalez both won by ko in round 1.

 

Canelo Alvarez and junior middleweight titlist Erislandy Lara, who meet in a scheduled 12-round 155-pound nontitle bout in the main event of a Showtime PPV card on July 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, are hitting the road to promote their showdown, which has been dubbed “Honor & Glory” by Golden Boy Promotions.

They will embark on a four-city promotional tour with stops in Los Angeles, San Antonio, New York and Puerto Rico with all four stops being open to the public for free
They kick things off on Tuesday at the El Pueblo Historical Monument in Los Angeles at 1 p.m. PT. Then it’s off to San Antonio for a stop at the Downtown Historic Market Square at 1 p.m. CT. The crew heads to New York for a stop on Thursday at the Hard Rock in Times Square at 1:30 p.m. ET. And they finish on Friday at the Ritz-Carlton in San Juan Puerto Rico at 1 p.m. AST.

Alvarez, trainer Chepo Reynoso, Lara, trainer Ronnie Shields and Golden Boy president Oscar De La Hoya are all scheduled to make the trip

 

Yuriorkis Gamboa vs Terence Crawford june 28

 

Guillermo Rigondeaux vs Jonathan Guzman july 19 in Macau.

 

May 10

At Los Angeles (ESPN): Bermane Stiverne vs. Chris Arreola, rematch, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC heavyweight title; Amir Imam vs. Yordenis Ugas, 8 rounds, junior welterweight

 

Crawford will face Gamboa on June 28 in the main event of an HBO-televised card at the 18,300-seat CenturyLink Center in Omaha.
This fight is just as good, maybe better than Garcia-Gamboa," Arum said. "We just couldn't live with Mikey's financial demands. A lot of it was fueled by other people, who told him that Gamboa was getting $1.5 million and he was only getting $750,000, which was ludicrous and wrong. But we made a good fight here. Gamboa does have a lot of power, but like most Cuban fighters he's very cautious and a very good boxer. Crawford is a superb boxer

 

The WBC heavyweight eliminator between Bryant “By By” Jennings and Mike “The Rebel” Perez scheduled for May 24th at the American Bank Arena and telecast on HBO has been cancelled due to Perez suffering a shoulder injury while training. At the present time the entire show in Corpus Christi TX, has been cancelled.