Colombian boxing is on a real rise with a number of top prospects such as Oscar Rivas and Eleider Alvarez who both fought last weekend and won their fights in Canada. The most exciting Colombian boxing prospect however is 21 year old Middleweight prospect Alex “El Principe” Theran. The southpaw from Barranquilla is currently 5-0 (4) as a professional since debuting back in July 2011 and has got the hardcore boxing fans really excited.
Prior to turning professional Theran had been a top national amateur and had fought in a number of international competitions including the 2010 South American Games (where he won Silver) and the 2009 World Amateur Boxing Championships. In fact Theran had fought around 180 times as an amateur before turning professional earlier this year and was seen as one to watch almost immediately.
Theran's debut in July saw the power punching Colombian take out Leo Cassiani in just 34 destructive seconds. Theran had settled immediately as a professional and just weeks later he would blow out Gabriel Bracho in an impressive 78 seconds. Theran's first 2 bouts had lasted less than 2 minutes as he moved to 2-0 (2) without even breaking sweat. After impressing in his first 2 bouts it was time for Theran to have a real test and he faced former world title challenger Oney Valdez. Valdez would survive the opening round and actually see out the 6 round schedule before losing by a wide decision to Theran.
Theran's destructive run continued after the victory over Valdez as he swiftly took out Jose Chiquillo in the opening round of a bout in October before before beating Jose Antonio Cervantes, also in 1 round. This victory moved Theran to 5-0 (4) all of the stoppages coming in the opening round. So far Theran has shown blistering handspeed and incredibly impressive power as he's swiftly increased his record and started to make a march up the rankings. At the end of the week we will see Theran in another step up in class as he faces another former title contender in Milton Nunez. A win over Nunez (23-3-1, 21KO's) is expected and would be a fantastic end to the year for the young quickly rising Theran who is almost certainly expected to fight for a title in the next few years.
The victory over Cervantes can be seen in the video below thanks to Yalter777. Interestingly the video has the fighter's name as “Alex Teherán”.
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Eleider Alvarez
At the moment the Colombian boxing scene is on a real high. Not only does the country have a number of top 10 ranked fighters such as Yonnhy Perez, Darley Perez and Jesus Geles but it also has a huge amount of very exciting emerging prospects. In fact Colombia has so many top prospects that it's hard to really pin point one as being the best, however it seems as if Eleider Alvarez, the 27 year old Light Heavyweight, may be one of the ones on a real fast track to the top.
Alvarez was formerly a world level amateur and had won medals at the Pan Am games and the South American games and even appeared in the 2008 Olympics (where he was defeated by Tony Jeffries). A year after the Olympics Alvarez turned professional and blew away the experienced Jesse Sanders inside a round and then ran up 2 more quick wins before the end of 2009 all against experienced fighters.
Sadly after moving his record to 3-0 (2) Alvarez vanished for a year and didn't fight at all in 2010. Any early momentum he had seemed to vanish and the hard core boxing fans who had followed him early on had all but forgotten about him prior to his return in April 2011 when he stopped experienced Mexican Ernesto Zamora in 3 rounds. Just weeks later Alvarez would make up for lost time by defeating David Whittom by 4 round decision and then add the scalp of Michael Walchuk to his record to move to 6-0 (4).
On this coming Saturday Alvarez fights in his first title fight when he faces Emiliano Cayetano for the WBO NABO Light Heavyweight title. This will easily be the toughest fight of Alvarez's short career and a big chance for him to claim a place in the rankings. Also on the card, promoted by Groupe Yvon Michel are highly rated Canadian Middleweight David Lemiux and Alvarez's countryman Oscar "Kaboom" Rivas.
Video thanks to 14caratboxing
Alvarez was formerly a world level amateur and had won medals at the Pan Am games and the South American games and even appeared in the 2008 Olympics (where he was defeated by Tony Jeffries). A year after the Olympics Alvarez turned professional and blew away the experienced Jesse Sanders inside a round and then ran up 2 more quick wins before the end of 2009 all against experienced fighters.
Sadly after moving his record to 3-0 (2) Alvarez vanished for a year and didn't fight at all in 2010. Any early momentum he had seemed to vanish and the hard core boxing fans who had followed him early on had all but forgotten about him prior to his return in April 2011 when he stopped experienced Mexican Ernesto Zamora in 3 rounds. Just weeks later Alvarez would make up for lost time by defeating David Whittom by 4 round decision and then add the scalp of Michael Walchuk to his record to move to 6-0 (4).
On this coming Saturday Alvarez fights in his first title fight when he faces Emiliano Cayetano for the WBO NABO Light Heavyweight title. This will easily be the toughest fight of Alvarez's short career and a big chance for him to claim a place in the rankings. Also on the card, promoted by Groupe Yvon Michel are highly rated Canadian Middleweight David Lemiux and Alvarez's countryman Oscar "Kaboom" Rivas.
Video thanks to 14caratboxing
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