As we all know boxers start young in Mexico, and 17 year old Miguel Angel Gonzalez (7-0, 7) was no exception to that rule when he debuted in September 2011 as just a baby faced 16 year old. Since his debut however "Miguelito" has been spoken about in glowing terms by the likes of WBC head honcho Jose Sulaiman (who mentioned "Miguelito" on his Suljosblog).
Gonzalez debuted against Mexican tomato can Javier Castro (currently 1-12 (1), having won his last fight) and forced an opening round stoppage after just 152 seconds. Whilst the performance wasn't great Gonzalez did what he needed to to get the win under his belt and ease his nerves in the ring. Just weeks later Gonzalez returned to the ring and defeated the debuting Joaquin Morales (KO1) and managed to end the year with his 3rd successive opening round KO win, this time stopping Norberto Gamez.
After a busy 2011, Gonzalez kept up his busy schedule and fought for the first time this year way back in February stopping Antonio Gonzalez (KO2) in brutal fashion leaving his namesake on the canvas down and out. Shockingly, this has been "Miguelito's" only bout to progress beyond the opening round as he has since rolled off 3 more opening round victories including stopping debutant Santos Lozoya and the previously unbeaten Francisco Camargo in just 44 seconds!
Having had things his own way so far, Gonzalez is expected to be tested for the first time this weekend as he faces the 2-0 Emir Montano. Whilst Montano is yet to score a stoppage, he is also yet to decisively lose a round in his professional career. Whilst not much is known about Montano it's fair to assume he will not be wanting to roll over and give up his unbeaten record with out a fight which is why this is hopefully going to be a decent test for Gonzalez.
Whilst I'm not great at Spanish, it seems as if Miguelito is actually the brother of Robert "Tito" Manzanarez (20-0, 16) (however this maybe a case of brothers being "boxing brothers" rather than biological brothers) however from his record it's fair to say that bother men have a few things in common. Both are young, exciting, hard hitting Mexicans who are likely to go a very long way in this sport.
It may be a whilst before "Miguelito" is in a really notable bout, though I'd advise fight fans the world over to keep their eyes open for this kid.
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Thursday, 25 October 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Julio Ceja
When you get a 19 year old with more than a handful of fights you tend to get a little bit excited and with Mexicans it maybe a little expected but sometimes there is just something about the fighter that makes you more than a little bit interested and that's what we have in Julio Ceja who at 19 has a record of 17-0 (16).
Ceja made his debut in 2009 aged just 16 and stopped Floro Carranza in the opening round before being taken 4 rounds by Fernando Curiel in September 2009, the fight with Curiel has been the one and only time that Ceja has had to hear the final bell as he has ran through opponents with alarming ease. By the end of 2009 Ceja had moved to 5-0 (4) with 3 opening round wins. The following year Ceja would add 7 more wins, each of those coming by KO/TKO with another 2 coming in the opening round as he swiftly moved to 12-0 (11).
Now I won't pretend that Ceja's first 12 opponents were anything to right home about, most were unknown fighters with only a handful of rounds of experience though in 2011 Ceja proved that he could face a better quality of opponent and still impress. In his 15th fight Ceja fought Cesar Javier Gandara (who entered 14-1) in a bout for the vacant WBC FECARBOX Super Flyweight title, Gandara, like 13 men before him was stopped as Ceja continued his tear through the ranks. In his next fight Ceja stopped the then 12-0 Alejandro Morales in just 1 round.
Whilst it is fair to say that Grandara and Morales weren't that experienced themselves despite having solid looking paper records it's now time that Ceja did face his first real test and this coming weekend he faces Ronald Barrera (30-8-2, 19). Barrera of Barranquilla, Colombia is a talented southpaw who has repeatedly challenged for world titles over the past few years (and arguably beat the great Ivan Calderon back in 2007). Although he has yet to win a world title has has faced Yutaka Niida (WBA Minimumweight champion), Ivan Calderon (WBO Minimumweight champion), Raul Garcia (IBF Minimumweight champion), Omar Nino Romero (WBC Light Flyweigth champion) and Juan Carlos Reveco (WBA Interim Light Flyweight champion) with 6 of his 8 losses coming to these men.
Whilst Ceja may prove to be too big, strong and too good for Barrera the bout is a decent test for the Mexican Super Flyweight against a talented and proven fighter. Whilst I'd expect Ceja to add another stoppage victim to his record this is easily going to be the most impressive opponent he will have faced in his short and impressive career.
Note an updated piece on Ceja can be found at http://www.boxingprospects.info/1/post/2012/04/julio-ceja.html
Footage below thanks to marvinkbox
Ceja made his debut in 2009 aged just 16 and stopped Floro Carranza in the opening round before being taken 4 rounds by Fernando Curiel in September 2009, the fight with Curiel has been the one and only time that Ceja has had to hear the final bell as he has ran through opponents with alarming ease. By the end of 2009 Ceja had moved to 5-0 (4) with 3 opening round wins. The following year Ceja would add 7 more wins, each of those coming by KO/TKO with another 2 coming in the opening round as he swiftly moved to 12-0 (11).
Now I won't pretend that Ceja's first 12 opponents were anything to right home about, most were unknown fighters with only a handful of rounds of experience though in 2011 Ceja proved that he could face a better quality of opponent and still impress. In his 15th fight Ceja fought Cesar Javier Gandara (who entered 14-1) in a bout for the vacant WBC FECARBOX Super Flyweight title, Gandara, like 13 men before him was stopped as Ceja continued his tear through the ranks. In his next fight Ceja stopped the then 12-0 Alejandro Morales in just 1 round.
Whilst it is fair to say that Grandara and Morales weren't that experienced themselves despite having solid looking paper records it's now time that Ceja did face his first real test and this coming weekend he faces Ronald Barrera (30-8-2, 19). Barrera of Barranquilla, Colombia is a talented southpaw who has repeatedly challenged for world titles over the past few years (and arguably beat the great Ivan Calderon back in 2007). Although he has yet to win a world title has has faced Yutaka Niida (WBA Minimumweight champion), Ivan Calderon (WBO Minimumweight champion), Raul Garcia (IBF Minimumweight champion), Omar Nino Romero (WBC Light Flyweigth champion) and Juan Carlos Reveco (WBA Interim Light Flyweight champion) with 6 of his 8 losses coming to these men.
Whilst Ceja may prove to be too big, strong and too good for Barrera the bout is a decent test for the Mexican Super Flyweight against a talented and proven fighter. Whilst I'd expect Ceja to add another stoppage victim to his record this is easily going to be the most impressive opponent he will have faced in his short and impressive career.
Note an updated piece on Ceja can be found at http://www.boxingprospects.info/1/post/2012/04/julio-ceja.html
Footage below thanks to marvinkbox
Friday, 10 June 2011
A look forward to this weekend
Although this weekend isn't a huge high profile one for our great sport it is a genuinely busy one so rather than spending the next 30 minutes writing about the next prospect we'll be featuring I'll instead just quickly go around everything we have on.
Friday:
Firstly Thomas Dulorme, the Puerto Rican sensation who was featured very early on in this blog attempts to improve his record from 11-0 (10) when he faces grizzled veteran DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley. Dulorme, aged 21, is seen as the next big thing from Puerto Rico and shot in to the eyes of boxing fans last time out when he scored a tremendous KO over Harrison Cuello. In Corley we find a fighter who is generally a stubborn opponent and although he's now 37 he's only been stopped 4 times in a 55 fight career. Corley now stands at 37-17-1 (22) and gave Marcos Maidana fits when the two met last year.
Although it would be a huge surprise to see Dulorme lose, this promises to be his first real test and not one that he'll walk through. Corley, although beaten badly by Lucas Martin Matthysse in January, has done the distance with the likes of Maidana, Zab Judah, Randall Bailey, Floyd Mayweather, Junior Witter and Devon Alexander. A stoppage for Dulorme puts him in alongside the likes of Matthysse, Miguel Angel Cotto, Freddy Hernandez and Jose Alfaro (a lesser group group admittedly).
Other prospects in action include Fidel Maldonado Jr (10-0, 9) a Cameron Dunkin managed Lightweight who is facing his toughest test to date when he faces Eddie Ramirez in a Golden Boy Promotions show. Although Maldonado has been dropped as a professional he is still young and a fighter who is improving as he fills out his body. Though the show of the night is the Showtime triple header.
On the Showtime card we are treated to heavy punching Cruiserweight Lateef Kayode (16-0, 14) facing recent world title challenger Matt Godfrey (20-2, 10). This is the main event and sees Kayode step out of the prospect bracket into the contender one though the card has 2 other very interesting bouts which have genuine prospects facing off on it. We have talented Archie Ray Marquez (12-0, 8) facing Art Hovhannesyan (13-0-1, 7) is what promises to be a telling fight more than a major one. The fight likely won't have tremendous fireworks though the winner will find themselves stepping up the rankings. A few weights down exciting power puncher Chris Avalos (18-1, 15) faces Russian Khabir Suleymanov (11-0, 5). Whilst Avalos is expected to win we have seen his flaws in recent bouts with Chris Martin toying with him when the two faced off last year and a talented fighter can take advantage of Avalos' flaws.
Away from the prospect scene we have an interesting WBA Interim title fight down at Flyweight where relatively unknown Jean Piero Perez (18-3-1, 13) faces off against former Light Flyweight interim champion Juan Carlos Revecco (26-1, 15). The bout will be the first defence for Perez who won the title last year by beating Jesus Jimenez, though other than that little is really known about the champion.
Saturday:
Although Friday is packed to the rafters in terms of action, prospects and notable fights. Puerto Rican's seem to be the flavour of the day with Jonathon Gonzalez (13,0, 13) facing off against the tough Richard Gutierrez (26-6-1-1, 16). Gutierrez has only been stopped 3 times in 34 fights though 2 of those have come in his previous 2 fights. On the same card Luis Orlando Del Valle (12-0, 10) faces Vietnamese Dat Nguyen (17-1, 6) in a fight that is genuinely an enthralling contest with both guys looking to establish their own names in the sport.
21 year old Middleweight/Super Middleweight prospect Dominic Wade (11-0, 8) looks to add to his growing reputation by facing off against Juan Astorga (15-6-1, 10) in what could be a short but sweet 6 rounder.
The biggest prospect fight of the weekend however takes place in England and sees Olympic bronze medal winner David Price (10-0, 8) facing off against Tom Dallas (15-0, 11). This heavyweight clash will almost certainly over-shadow the British flyweight title fight between Paul Edwards (8-0, 2) and Chris Edwards (15-14-3, 4). Dallas goes into the bout after an incredibly poor showing with Zack Page whilst Price managed to impressively bang out Raphael Butler inside a round on his last showing, so this will be a fight with Dallas looking for redemption.
Again we have title fights, this time we have two pretty interesting bouts one in Mexico that really is interesting and one in Argentina that I feel will be a little bit one-sided. The Mexican one sees the new WBA Light Middleweight champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout (22-0, 13) defending his title against grizzled veteran David “The Destroyer” Lopez (40-12, 23). Trout starts at a 1/5 favourite though I cannot help but feel that the bookies have gotten this one very, very wrong. Lopez is on a long unbeaten and has been beating a number of top fighters on his route to a world title fight that takes place in Mexico, Lopez's homeland. Trout is in for a very, very difficult time.
The other title fight of the night sees unbeaten Argentinian Omar Andres Narvaez (34-0-2, 19) defending the WBO Super Flyweight title against William Urina (17-1, 14). I love watching Narvaez there is something really appealing about his style and although he lacks power he's a fun one to watch, though this fight really doesn't do anything for me. Narvaez is incredibly talented, a capable fighter who should be mixing it with the best in the division though has found himself in with Urina who isn't really even near to the same level as Narvaez.
Sorry for being “behind” on this blog, I've had a visitor and not really been working as much as I should have for the past 2 weeks.
Friday:
Firstly Thomas Dulorme, the Puerto Rican sensation who was featured very early on in this blog attempts to improve his record from 11-0 (10) when he faces grizzled veteran DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley. Dulorme, aged 21, is seen as the next big thing from Puerto Rico and shot in to the eyes of boxing fans last time out when he scored a tremendous KO over Harrison Cuello. In Corley we find a fighter who is generally a stubborn opponent and although he's now 37 he's only been stopped 4 times in a 55 fight career. Corley now stands at 37-17-1 (22) and gave Marcos Maidana fits when the two met last year.
Although it would be a huge surprise to see Dulorme lose, this promises to be his first real test and not one that he'll walk through. Corley, although beaten badly by Lucas Martin Matthysse in January, has done the distance with the likes of Maidana, Zab Judah, Randall Bailey, Floyd Mayweather, Junior Witter and Devon Alexander. A stoppage for Dulorme puts him in alongside the likes of Matthysse, Miguel Angel Cotto, Freddy Hernandez and Jose Alfaro (a lesser group group admittedly).
Other prospects in action include Fidel Maldonado Jr (10-0, 9) a Cameron Dunkin managed Lightweight who is facing his toughest test to date when he faces Eddie Ramirez in a Golden Boy Promotions show. Although Maldonado has been dropped as a professional he is still young and a fighter who is improving as he fills out his body. Though the show of the night is the Showtime triple header.
On the Showtime card we are treated to heavy punching Cruiserweight Lateef Kayode (16-0, 14) facing recent world title challenger Matt Godfrey (20-2, 10). This is the main event and sees Kayode step out of the prospect bracket into the contender one though the card has 2 other very interesting bouts which have genuine prospects facing off on it. We have talented Archie Ray Marquez (12-0, 8) facing Art Hovhannesyan (13-0-1, 7) is what promises to be a telling fight more than a major one. The fight likely won't have tremendous fireworks though the winner will find themselves stepping up the rankings. A few weights down exciting power puncher Chris Avalos (18-1, 15) faces Russian Khabir Suleymanov (11-0, 5). Whilst Avalos is expected to win we have seen his flaws in recent bouts with Chris Martin toying with him when the two faced off last year and a talented fighter can take advantage of Avalos' flaws.
Away from the prospect scene we have an interesting WBA Interim title fight down at Flyweight where relatively unknown Jean Piero Perez (18-3-1, 13) faces off against former Light Flyweight interim champion Juan Carlos Revecco (26-1, 15). The bout will be the first defence for Perez who won the title last year by beating Jesus Jimenez, though other than that little is really known about the champion.
Saturday:
Although Friday is packed to the rafters in terms of action, prospects and notable fights. Puerto Rican's seem to be the flavour of the day with Jonathon Gonzalez (13,0, 13) facing off against the tough Richard Gutierrez (26-6-1-1, 16). Gutierrez has only been stopped 3 times in 34 fights though 2 of those have come in his previous 2 fights. On the same card Luis Orlando Del Valle (12-0, 10) faces Vietnamese Dat Nguyen (17-1, 6) in a fight that is genuinely an enthralling contest with both guys looking to establish their own names in the sport.
21 year old Middleweight/Super Middleweight prospect Dominic Wade (11-0, 8) looks to add to his growing reputation by facing off against Juan Astorga (15-6-1, 10) in what could be a short but sweet 6 rounder.
The biggest prospect fight of the weekend however takes place in England and sees Olympic bronze medal winner David Price (10-0, 8) facing off against Tom Dallas (15-0, 11). This heavyweight clash will almost certainly over-shadow the British flyweight title fight between Paul Edwards (8-0, 2) and Chris Edwards (15-14-3, 4). Dallas goes into the bout after an incredibly poor showing with Zack Page whilst Price managed to impressively bang out Raphael Butler inside a round on his last showing, so this will be a fight with Dallas looking for redemption.
Again we have title fights, this time we have two pretty interesting bouts one in Mexico that really is interesting and one in Argentina that I feel will be a little bit one-sided. The Mexican one sees the new WBA Light Middleweight champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout (22-0, 13) defending his title against grizzled veteran David “The Destroyer” Lopez (40-12, 23). Trout starts at a 1/5 favourite though I cannot help but feel that the bookies have gotten this one very, very wrong. Lopez is on a long unbeaten and has been beating a number of top fighters on his route to a world title fight that takes place in Mexico, Lopez's homeland. Trout is in for a very, very difficult time.
The other title fight of the night sees unbeaten Argentinian Omar Andres Narvaez (34-0-2, 19) defending the WBO Super Flyweight title against William Urina (17-1, 14). I love watching Narvaez there is something really appealing about his style and although he lacks power he's a fun one to watch, though this fight really doesn't do anything for me. Narvaez is incredibly talented, a capable fighter who should be mixing it with the best in the division though has found himself in with Urina who isn't really even near to the same level as Narvaez.
Sorry for being “behind” on this blog, I've had a visitor and not really been working as much as I should have for the past 2 weeks.
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Robert Manzanarez
The sport of boxing currently has a handful of professional fighters who are just 16 years old. These were the youngest fighters I could find, the youngest individual was Robert Manzanarez who was born on December 17th 1994. Now you may be thinking, a 16 year old Mexican, a fighter just starting his career, nothing to be too excited about, right? Well kinda. Mazanarez certainly is just starting his professional career in the scope of things, though he's already the most experienced 16 year old out there. With a record of 10-0 (7) he's not as inexperienced as we perhaps expected when we learnt his date of birth.
Robert was born in Phoenix, Arizona though is now based in the wonderful fighting city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa in Mexico. It was in Los Mochis that a 15 year old Robert would step into the professional ring for the first time. Robert had turned 15 just 3 three months before his debut, an age perhaps too young to be fighting. He would win that night by stopping Jose Rosario Lopez in 32 seconds and just 8 days later he would return to the ring to defeat Julio Carmona in 3 rounds.
Between the start of April 2010 and the end of June that same year Robert hand managed to notch up 5 more wins and had already amassed an impressive record of 7-0 (6). All those opponents he faced, apart from the man he faced on his debut, were making their own debuts though it was still impressive that the youngster was beating them with such ease. Even the man who had made it to the final bell, Ricardo Carrillo, was dropped from a body blow in a white wash decision of 40-35 on all 3 cards.
To end the year Robert would step up his competition slightly and beat the 1-3 Rafael Moreno in 2 rounds before out pointing Omar Martinez over 4 rounds. Before his 16th birthday Robert was 9-0 (7) though then he'd take a break. After 6 months out of action Robert “Tito” Manzanarez would have his next fight and face the 1-4 fighter Luis Angel Hernandez. Against Hernandez we would see the young prospect go 6 rounds en route to winning the decision. This would be the first time Manzanarez would go 6 rounds and even in this fight he would knock down his opponent to take a wide decision (60-51 on one card).
The 5'7” 16 year old has only fought once this year, the victory over Hernandez, though of course as a teenager will almost certainly have other things on his mind. It's very, very unlikely that we'll see him in a meaningful fight any time soon, if ever to be honest, he's too young for us to assume he'll be a star. Though hopefully when he next returns to the ring he'll have decided which weight he's suited at as he's boxed as low as Flyweight and at his heaviest has been over the Super Bantamweight limit. With a record of 10-0 (7) and a total of 28 rounds under his belt he's far from experienced, though as far as 16 year olds go, he's one of the most experienced we'll find in our great sport.
Video thanks to larazabox
Robert was born in Phoenix, Arizona though is now based in the wonderful fighting city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa in Mexico. It was in Los Mochis that a 15 year old Robert would step into the professional ring for the first time. Robert had turned 15 just 3 three months before his debut, an age perhaps too young to be fighting. He would win that night by stopping Jose Rosario Lopez in 32 seconds and just 8 days later he would return to the ring to defeat Julio Carmona in 3 rounds.
Between the start of April 2010 and the end of June that same year Robert hand managed to notch up 5 more wins and had already amassed an impressive record of 7-0 (6). All those opponents he faced, apart from the man he faced on his debut, were making their own debuts though it was still impressive that the youngster was beating them with such ease. Even the man who had made it to the final bell, Ricardo Carrillo, was dropped from a body blow in a white wash decision of 40-35 on all 3 cards.
To end the year Robert would step up his competition slightly and beat the 1-3 Rafael Moreno in 2 rounds before out pointing Omar Martinez over 4 rounds. Before his 16th birthday Robert was 9-0 (7) though then he'd take a break. After 6 months out of action Robert “Tito” Manzanarez would have his next fight and face the 1-4 fighter Luis Angel Hernandez. Against Hernandez we would see the young prospect go 6 rounds en route to winning the decision. This would be the first time Manzanarez would go 6 rounds and even in this fight he would knock down his opponent to take a wide decision (60-51 on one card).
The 5'7” 16 year old has only fought once this year, the victory over Hernandez, though of course as a teenager will almost certainly have other things on his mind. It's very, very unlikely that we'll see him in a meaningful fight any time soon, if ever to be honest, he's too young for us to assume he'll be a star. Though hopefully when he next returns to the ring he'll have decided which weight he's suited at as he's boxed as low as Flyweight and at his heaviest has been over the Super Bantamweight limit. With a record of 10-0 (7) and a total of 28 rounds under his belt he's far from experienced, though as far as 16 year olds go, he's one of the most experienced we'll find in our great sport.
Video thanks to larazabox
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Marco Antonio Periban
It seems recently this page has been a little bit forgotten about for a number of reasons, mainly my work on a different site. Though to bring this site back to the public's attention I'll be talking about one of my hot tips for the future, Mexican Super Middleweight Marco Antonio Periban (12-0, 9). Periban is a 26 year old who turned professional in 2008 though has started to race up the rankings after a number of noteworthy wins.
After being a very solid amateur fighter in his native Mexico he would turn professional and score a 3rd round KO on his debut over fellow debutant Oscar Solis. In fact only one of his first 5 contests would go to a decision and that was his second professional bout when he faced Miguel Zamarripa who managed to survive the 4 rounds the bout was scheduled for. He would quickly run to 6-0 (4) adding by taking the 0 of the then 10-0-1 Richard Vidal by decision and it started to seem as if the Mexican was really one to watch despite being such a novice to the pros.
Periban's early career wasn't all easy work though, he was dropped in his 7th professional contest by Salomon Rodriguez in the toughest fight of his career. Periban would take a split decision that night and manage to escape with a perfect record though alarm bells were ringing that maybe he wasn't going to be fast tracked as some assumed. In his 8th bout he would face the very durable Jason Naugler, who had managed to take the explosive David Lemieux the distance. Whilst Naugler's durability weren't an issue his face, which was cut and swelling was and Periban became only the 2nd man in over 30 fights to stop Naugler in a fight that allowed him to show all the facets to his game.
Since the stoppage win over Naugler we have seen Periban run up 4 more straight wins by KO in the opening 2 rounds. Included in those wins were victories over the durable and tough Darnell Boone and over the then 10-0 Dion Savage.
Periban has been pencilled in to fight on the undercard of Gilberto Keb Baas' WBC Light Flyweight world title fight against Adrian Hernandez though an opponent seems to be rather difficult to find for the rising Mexican star. The rumour is that Periban will be fighting Jose Alberto Clavero (30-7-1) from Argentina who is 5-6-1 in his last 12 bouts and would feel like a rather under-whelming opponent for Periban.
Periban is a very skilled fighter with fast heavy hands and although questions may be about his chin and stamina he's an excellent and exciting addition to the Super Middleweight division and certainly a name to watch out for.
After being a very solid amateur fighter in his native Mexico he would turn professional and score a 3rd round KO on his debut over fellow debutant Oscar Solis. In fact only one of his first 5 contests would go to a decision and that was his second professional bout when he faced Miguel Zamarripa who managed to survive the 4 rounds the bout was scheduled for. He would quickly run to 6-0 (4) adding by taking the 0 of the then 10-0-1 Richard Vidal by decision and it started to seem as if the Mexican was really one to watch despite being such a novice to the pros.
Periban's early career wasn't all easy work though, he was dropped in his 7th professional contest by Salomon Rodriguez in the toughest fight of his career. Periban would take a split decision that night and manage to escape with a perfect record though alarm bells were ringing that maybe he wasn't going to be fast tracked as some assumed. In his 8th bout he would face the very durable Jason Naugler, who had managed to take the explosive David Lemieux the distance. Whilst Naugler's durability weren't an issue his face, which was cut and swelling was and Periban became only the 2nd man in over 30 fights to stop Naugler in a fight that allowed him to show all the facets to his game.
Since the stoppage win over Naugler we have seen Periban run up 4 more straight wins by KO in the opening 2 rounds. Included in those wins were victories over the durable and tough Darnell Boone and over the then 10-0 Dion Savage.
Periban has been pencilled in to fight on the undercard of Gilberto Keb Baas' WBC Light Flyweight world title fight against Adrian Hernandez though an opponent seems to be rather difficult to find for the rising Mexican star. The rumour is that Periban will be fighting Jose Alberto Clavero (30-7-1) from Argentina who is 5-6-1 in his last 12 bouts and would feel like a rather under-whelming opponent for Periban.
Periban is a very skilled fighter with fast heavy hands and although questions may be about his chin and stamina he's an excellent and exciting addition to the Super Middleweight division and certainly a name to watch out for.
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Gilberto Ramirez Sanchez
Mexican fighters are probably the most fascinating group of boxers out there at the moment. If you wish to just stereotype they are true warriors, they battle until they can't fight on and they often enjoy a good scrap. Although a few more skilled than that, such as current IBF Lightweight champion Miguel Vazquez who prefers to fight on the move with accurate counters and slippery movement, the majority prefer to fight than to box. Though one youngster who can box or bang and is very much one to watch is Gilberto Ramírez Sánchez.
Sanchez aged just 19 looks set to follow in the footsteps of so many other fighters from Mexico and go from being almost unheard of to reaching the top of the boxing tree. He has already sparred with a world champion (the then WBA Light Middleweight champion Rigoberto “Español” Alvarez, older brother of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez) and has already started to gain some form of notoriety as a hard punching youngster.
With a record of 16-0 (14) you could easily assume the 19 year old southpaw has been facing soft touch after soft touch. His record of a mere 43 rounds does suggest that his fights haven't been long gruelling tough affairs. Though below the raw numbers his opponents have been surprisingly solid so far. Since debuting as just an 18 year old back in 2009 Sanchez has faced opponents with a combined record of 123-65-6. Although he has faced several debutants and “career losers” his most recent opponents have been impressive enough fighters in their own right and have included:
Christian Solano (22-19-4 upon entering)-Solano had beaten British fighter John O'Donnell, he had taken Julio Cesar Chavez Jr 10 rounds and Saul Roman the same distance.
The, then unbeaten Rogelio Medina (23-0)
And veteran Antonio Arras (21-9)
Against Medina Sanchez picked up his first title as a professional by winning the vacant WBC Youth World middleweight title. This entitled Sanchez to a WBC ranking (though he is still outside of the top 40 after checking at with the organisation) though his most notable ranking is the #13 ranking he has with the NABO. The independent rankings of the IBO and Boxrec.com place Sanchez at #76 at Middleweight (IBO) and #41 at Middleweight (Boxrec.com) though the rankings hardly matter at this point.
From sources found on the web about Sanchez it's no wonder he is being matched as a professional. He is according to an article on “notifight.com” he was a “national champion and three-time junior national champion elite” as an amateur. Though as a professional those skills haven't really been required. Instead his exceptional power, thunderous aggression and ability to land hard clean shots to both head and body have helped “Zurdo De Oro” create a bit of a buzz.
Fighting out of Sinaloa, Mexico Sanchez will have plenty around him that know the business inside out. Sinaloa is of course the state that contains Los Mochis (think Fernando Montiel) and Culiacán (Julio Cesar Chavez). If Sanchez can emulate either of those two he'll become a name to be remembered, though as a Mexican middleweight/Super Middleweight he'll also have something going for him. Although Marco Antonio Periban is a Mexican Super Middleweight who may end up competing for a world title by the end of 2012 Sanchez, at just 19, will easily out grow the Middleweight division and could easily end up as high at Light Heavyweight. Imagine a Mexican 3 weight champion taking belts at Middleweight, Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight, that really is the potential of young Gilberto Ramírez Sánchez.
Since his debut he has shown fast heavy hands, a patience far beyond his time and an ability to pick the right shots at the right time. The combination of these traits could very easily see him becoming of the modern Mexican greats.
Sources:
Notifight.com
Video below thanks to ZapariBoxingNotifight.com
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