Boxing After Dark came back with three great knockouts: Yuriorkis Gamboa in the second, Alfredo
Angulo in the tenth, and Sergio Martinez in the eighth. All scored one sided knockouts
against good, but not great competition. In fact their opponent’s names aren’t really even worth mentioning. For that reason BAD didn’t get it exactly
right. The fights were not as
competitive as they were back in the heyday, nonetheless a star was born tonight.
The one takeaway from this card is: Sergio Martinez OR
Alfredo Angulo need to get in the ring against Antonio Margarito! And here is why…
In ten rounds, Alfredo Angulo threw 1211 punches, landing
400, with most of them power punches. Do
those type of stats remind you of anyone? Angulo’s punch stats and war of atrision style against Margarito is the
type of Mexican Revolution that would have Pancho Villa crawling out of his
grave guns a’ blazing.
Both Sergio Martinez and Alfredo Angulo fought at 154
pounds, and Antonio Margarito has fought in the division before against Daniel
Santos.
The only thing stopping one of these fights is the politics
of boxing. Bob Arum would have to come
to terms with Gary Shaw, which is about as likely as having Jose Suliman wear a
red IBF belt around his waist.
Of course Angulo and
Martinez
need more exposure before a fight with Margarito would make economic sense. Lets hope that we can at least see these two
in the ring with each other.
As for Gamboa, get
back to school. Yeah, you were a gold
medalist, but you are not wearing headgear anymore and you seriously need to
keep your hands up. His aggressive style
made him get the knockout in the second round, but he was also dropped and hit
with punches other elite fighters don’t get hit with.
What would get BAD back on track, is getting Gamboa in the
ring with WBC Champ Jorge Linares and Angulo against
Martinez with the winner fighting Margarito.
As fans, we should clamor for this to happen.
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