The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Cuadras-Estrada is gonna be fire
"Superfly" HBO 9/9 P4P #1 King Sor-Chocolatito 2 / Cuadras-Estrada / Inoue-Nieves
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No amount of training can prepare him for the reign of Kang Sor. Roman will been the knee once again.
in a way i can see it since inoue is a champion but i think cuadras-estrada is the better co main and competitive fight
GREENandYELLOW
2x...and defending
I think Chocolatito may looked a bit shop worn and could lose. Still going to play the most likely percentages in that he comes back and gets the decision like he should have in the first fight.
Yeah, I feel that Cuadras fight really took it's toll on him plus losing his long time trainer didn't help. Even worse of a decision is having his father as head trainer now. He should have gone to an established trainer like Roberto Garcia or somebody along those lines.
Nieves Vows To Become a Godzilla Killer, Down 'Monster' Inoue
Cleveland's Antonio "Carita" Nieves is going into his first world title fight having grown up watching the kind of damage a movie monster from Japan can inflict.
But he's not scared.
On Saturday, September 9, Nieves (17-1-2, 9 KOs) will challenge two-time world championo Naoya "Monster" Inoue (13-0, 11 KOs) as the chief supporting televised bout of an HBO Boxing After Dark tripleheader (10:15 p.m. ET/PT), live from the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Entitled "SUPERFLY," the event will be headlined by the rematch between current WBC World Super Flyweight Champion Wisaksil Wangek of Thailand and Nicaraguan superstar Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez.
Opening the telecast will be a battle of Mexican former world champions, as former WBC Super Flyweight World Champion Carlos "Principe" Cuadras (36-1-1, 27 KO's) will take on rival countrymen and former flyweight world champion Juan Francisco "El Gallo" Estrada (35-2-0, 25 KO's) of Sonora, Mexico.
The fight against Inoue is a dream come true for 30-year-old Nieves, a quick-fisted and determined fighter, who has spent his entire boxing career waiting for this, his first chance at a world championship.
Nieves, who has campaigned until now as a world-class bantamweight, will have the size advantage in Saturday's fight, as well as the edge in experience.
That said, it will be no easy task. Yokohama's 24-year-old Inoue is known for his devastating punching power, especially to the body. The Japanese slugger won the WBC Light Flyweight World Championship in his sixth fight and is already making the seventh defense of his WBO World Super Flyweight Title he won the title in his eighth pro fight.
"Training went great," said Nieves, who prepared for battle with career-long trainer Joseph Delguyd at the Old School Boxing Club in Cleveland. "Making this lower weight was no problem at all. I'm about one or two pounds over with a week to go and I haven't missed a meal yet. I always knew it wouldn't be hard to make this weight. I make 118 easily, so a couple pounds more wasn't going to be that difficult."
Nieves says unlike Godzilla movies, he will be bigger than his Japanese opponent.
"We have been watching tapes on him. He's a two-time world champions, quick and strong at the weight. They say he's a monster from Japan like Godzilla, but we will see. I believe I'll be stronger bigger guy at this weight. A lot of his fights were at 108 lbs and then he jumped up in weight. The fact that I'm coming down in weight will help me a lot. I am going to be able to push him around like people haven't done to him before."
Nieves says he knows what a victory would mean over the streaking Inoue, in a division packed with talent.
"I'm taking this fight as my entrance into this division that is loaded with big fights. After this fight I'll be in a position for more big fights. To win the world championship means everything to me. That's why I did all this: to fight the best and now we have that opportunity and that's what we're going to do. We have a game plan and Saturday, we're going to execute it."
"I am very excited for Antonio to get an opportunity to showcase his skills in a world title on HBO," said his promoter, Dmitriy Salita. "Antonio is one of the better-known and most accomplished contenders in the division and I expect a spectacular performance on September 9."
Tim VanNewhouse, Nieves' co-manager, says he and his partner couldn't be happier with their fighter's achievement. "It's very rewarding to David McWater and I to see Antonio get to this level. He will be the first under the Split-T family of fighters to fight for a world title."
GREENandYELLOW
2x...and defending
Definitely those things and add in that he just moved up in weight (likely due to age) and is facing younger bigger guys and when little guys hit their downhill part of their career they struggle keeping it together as well as bigger guys.
Sor Rungvisai Feels No Pressure This Time, Vows Better Showing
By Thomas Gerbasi
When it comes to the story of Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, one of the lasting touchstones is the time when the future WBC super flyweight champion walked 60 miles to Bangkok in search of a job.
Even imagining a trek like that is hard to comprehend, but you would assume that it’s during such an exhausting journey that a teenager can dream. Of better days. Of a new life. Of anything not requiring a 60-mile walk.
“I did not dream much because I had to focus on getting a job and surviving in that moment,” Sor Rungvisai said through a translator. “The reason why I went to Bangkok in the first place was to prove to people back in my hometown, basically my family and my girlfriend’s family, that we could survive on our own.”
When asked if he proved his point, Sor Rungvisai laughs before saying yes, and as he approaches his Saturday rematch with Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, things couldn’t be better for the boy who once couldn’t dream. In fact, the annoying cliché of “living the dream” couldn’t be more apt for the 30-year-old, whose victory over Gonzalez in March didn’t just earn him the WBC title for the second time in the frontrunner for 2017 Fight of the Year, but it has taken him to a new place back home in Thailand.
“Life has been great and it has improved,” he said. “I got a great reaction and great feedback from all the fans in Thailand. There should be a lot of viewership for this coming fight because of the last time, and I met with the prime minister of Thailand and I was also appointed to the police department of Thailand.”
Yes, Sor Rungvisai is now a police officer, but fighting crime is more of a post-boxing career than something taking up his time between training sessions.
“I will focus on boxing first,” he said. “The thing with the police right now is that the appointment is structured in a way that it does not interfere with my boxing career and training. It’s more for the future, after my boxing career.”
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Good call, especially since his career couldn’t be going better. Winner of 16 straight since his last loss to Carlos Cuadras in 2014, Sor Rungvisai shocked the world when he handed Gonzalez his first defeat, but maybe we shouldn’t have been so surprised. Fighters like him are cut from a different cloth than most. There is an urgency to his attack, a refusal to be broken. And that can only be built by times much tougher than those that happen between the ropes.
“It’s tough in different ways, both boxing and life,” he said. “Back in the time when I was working as a trash collector and security guard, I had to work very hard in terms of hours. I had to start from 6am until almost midnight every day. But now with boxing, the sport itself is tough, but I only have to train for several hours a day and I have time to rest and take care of myself as well. So it’s tough in different ways.”
His response is delivered in an almost matter of fact manner, like everyone goes through the experiences that made him. But most don’t, so when you hear his story and see how far he’s come in his 30 years on the planet, you have to smile and appreciate that his battles have already been won. And he is smiling, especially after seeing that before his second consecutive bout in the United States, he is being adopted by Stateside fight fans.
“I’m extremely proud of myself, I’m very happy and I’m starting to feel like the U.S. is my second home now,” he beams before the main event at StubHub Center in Carson, California.
But Sor Rungvisai’s work is far from done yet, and he’s ready to put in 36 minutes’ worth against Gonzalez once more.
“This time it will be better than last time because I had more time to train and prepare,” he said. “The last time, we had less than two months to train for the fight. This time, we had four full months to prepare. So it’s going to be better this time and I don’t feel pressure at all this time. It’s just like last time and it will be a tough fight for Roman Gonzalez, for sure.”
The Redirection of Juan Francisco Estrada
By Cliff Rold
It couldn’t have been looking much better.
Juan Francisco Estrada (35-2, 25 KO) went from unheralded challenger to unified and defending titlist in just eight months between November 2012 and July 2013. The style with which he did it got a lot of attention from both hardcore fans and knowledgeable observers. The great Nacho Beristain, trainer of Ricardo Lopez and Juan Manuel Marquez, has been quoted more than once as believing Estrada is the best of Mexico’s current crop.
Not Canelo Alvarez.
Not Estrada’s Mexican opponent next weekend, Carlos Cuadras (36-1-1, 27 KO).
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It sets a high bar for the man coined El Gallo. So what happened to the last couple years? It feels like it’s been a long time since Estrada had an opponent that could get the pulses racing.
It’s been since 2014 to be exact. In September of that year, a month that had a flurry of action at flyweight akin to the single day explosion coming this weekend, Estrada’s showdown with fellow Mexican Giovani Segura was heavily anticipated among followers of the lighter weight classes.
Estrada turned in a virtuoso performance, picking the wild but always dangerous Segura apart for eleven one-sided rounds. It was the culmination of a series of resume and reputation building fights that began with what one might call a ‘good’ loss.
Estrada challenged Roman Gonzalez for a title at Jr. flyweight in November 2012. Gonzalez was already building the buzz that eventually got him to HBO and by the end of the night he had found a rival. Estrada gave Gonzalez the toughest fight of his career to that point, losing clearly but in a way that suggested he was someone to see again.
Again would come against Brian Viloria in April 2013. Viloria, who unified two flyweight titles in the main event above Gonzalez-Estrada, faced Estrada in China. Ironically, Estrada made it to HBO before Gonzalez (albeit on an afternoon card on HBO2) and impressed with a solid win over Viloria. Estrada would return to China, and HBO2, for his first defense against future 108 lb. beltholder Milan Melindo.
He handed Melindo his first loss and the chorus of the impressed increased. The desire to see a Gonzalez-Estrada rematch increased as well over time, getting its loudest when Gonzalez joined Estrada as beltholder, in Gonzalez’s case also capturing the lineal throne, at flyweight in September ’14.
Now, here we are three years later at a fight that could be a main event on a lot of other nights. That’s a good thing. That it’s been three years since Segura is not. Gonzalez-Estrada II might have happened in 2015 but when Gonzalez finally broke through to premium American television that became a fight that suddenly could be made bigger and waited on.
Then Estrada had hand problems that cost him over a year of his career with no fights from September 2015 to October 2016. When he has been fighting the last few years, it wasn’t against much. Tyson Marquez was the biggest name foe and well past his sell by date. Estrada, who was finding himself on many mythical pound-for-pound lists along with Gonzalez, blew off track. He has a chance to restart the entire buzz this weekend.
A career that was ablaze with momentum can be redirected in a single night this Saturday (HBO, 10:15 PM EST). For all the talk of Gonzalez facing Inoue with a win this weekend, it’s easy to forget how long a rematch with Estrada was the best fight money could buy in the lower weights.
Are we really sure that’s not still the case?
What if the fight we should really be excited about, dreaming about, is Estrada-Inoue?
These might be the kinds of questions we’re all asking Sunday morning. It all depends on what direction Estrada is heading by then.
That work ethic...i wonder how much he is getting paid?
King Sor
