Caballero's Adviser: He Has To Forget Juanma, For Now
By Jhonny Gonzalez
The adviser for Celestino Caballero, Sampson Lewkowicz, has told his fighter to forget about Juan Manuel Lopez for the moment. Lewkowicz wants Caballero to focus on picking himself up from last Saturday's ten round split decision loss to Jason Litzau in Las Vegas. The defeat was a huge blow to Caballero's plan of landing big featherweight bouts against Juanma and Yuriorkis Gamboa. Caballero has been chasing Lopez for over two years.
"No more talk about Juanma until [Caballero] can demonstrate that he's still a great champion at 126-pounds. Celestino is very interested to once again prove that he is. I think Caballero will come back stronger than ever and in time he will be at the level of a great champion like Lopez," said Lewkowicz to Albert Gil.
Lewkowicz gave hints that Caballero may have overlooked Litzau and didn't take his training camp serious enough.
"A champion will sometimes lose his world championship, not necessarily because the challenger is better, but because he underestimates the opponent," said Lewkowicz. "Las Vegas is not the best place to have a training camp. Now it will be very difficult to sell him to HBO and Showtime, because they always look at the last fight. I'm going to have to make a decent fight with a worthy opponent in Panama in order to bring him back to America."
