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By Thomas Gerbasi - Saturday is the first day of the rest of Andre Berto’s boxing life.
Melodramatic? Possibly. True? Most definitely. But despite being a little over a month shy of his 30th birthday, the former welterweight champion’s future in the sport will likely be dictated by what should be a winnable outing against Mexico’s Jesus Soto Karass in Texas this weekend.
It’s his first fight since a competitive but crushing loss to Robert Guerrero, third since losing his 147-pound title in a 2011 Fight of the Year candidate against Victor Ortiz, and first since leaving longtime trainer Tony Morgan for Virgil Hunter. It’s also a pattern followed by many fighters over the years: reach a certain point in your career, have some success, lose a couple fights, try to get cute and bring new things to the table stylistically, and when that doesn’t work, switch trainers.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. At the moment, Berto – whose Floyd Mayweather-esque shoulder roll in the Guerrero fight didn’t prevent him from two trips to the canvas – is confident that he made the right call in taking his camp from Florida to the Bay Area. [Click Here To Read More]
Melodramatic? Possibly. True? Most definitely. But despite being a little over a month shy of his 30th birthday, the former welterweight champion’s future in the sport will likely be dictated by what should be a winnable outing against Mexico’s Jesus Soto Karass in Texas this weekend.
It’s his first fight since a competitive but crushing loss to Robert Guerrero, third since losing his 147-pound title in a 2011 Fight of the Year candidate against Victor Ortiz, and first since leaving longtime trainer Tony Morgan for Virgil Hunter. It’s also a pattern followed by many fighters over the years: reach a certain point in your career, have some success, lose a couple fights, try to get cute and bring new things to the table stylistically, and when that doesn’t work, switch trainers.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. At the moment, Berto – whose Floyd Mayweather-esque shoulder roll in the Guerrero fight didn’t prevent him from two trips to the canvas – is confident that he made the right call in taking his camp from Florida to the Bay Area. [Click Here To Read More]
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