By Carlos Irusta
LUNA PARK ANNOUNCED a new boxing card to take place on April 8. In the main event, Hugo Hernán Garay, the national and Latino WBO light heavyweight champion will fight Mexican Gustavo Enriquez (14-5-0, 11KO), from Ciudad Juárez. The Fedelatin (WBA) belt will be at stake.
Garay have had two world title chances against WBO light heavyweight champion Zsolt Erdei, and was defeated by points in both encounters. In the first meeting, he was 2 points ahead on one scorecard. Garay has 25 victories with 13 KOs and 2 loses. He was training with Carlos Tello at Cordoba. Tello also trains world champion Omar Narváez and national middleweight champion Mariano Carrera, among others. Garay returned to Buenos Aires (he was born in El Tigre, Buenos Aires province, the land of Jorge “The Hyena” Barrios) to train at Tito Lectoure Academy at Caseros, with former pro Rudecindo Chávez.
“I must change some parts of my style”, he says. As a matter of fact, Garay was fighting in the Olympic School, trying to connect series of punches just to make points, not inflict damage. He is improving in the ways of the “old” school and he must now demonstrate it against Gustavo Enriquez.
One thing is for sure: to assist a boxing card at Luna Park is no different than the tradition of fighting in MSG in New York. Argentinean boxing and Luna Park are a tremendous combo on Saturday nights. No TV, celebrities at Ringside. Times have changed, but the Magic is still alive.
Garay, who is managed by Osvaldo Rivero, will have another chance to showcase himself in front of a great number of people in the big arena of Argentina. He must show what changed in his style and capitalize in order to keep the dream alive of another world title shot in a division where Victor Galindez and Miguel Angel Cuello reigned.
