By Mark Vester
At the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, former welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (31-2, 27KOs) upset hot junior middleweight prospect Alfredo Angulo (15-1, 12KOs) with a unanimous twelve round decision. The scores were 116-112 by all three judges for Cintron.
Cintron came out boxing pretty well in the first round, but the good work was overlooked when Angulo began to land his power punches in the final 30 seconds of the round. In the second, it was Angulo stalking and walking Cintron down, but that may have went out the window when Cintron began to score his big shots in the final 30 seconds.
Cintron had a very strong round three, landing multiple huge shots and using movement mixed in with angles to make Angulo miss a lot of his punches. He caught Angulo with a hard left that seemed to shake him near the end of the round. In the fourth, Cintron was doubling and tripling the left jab. He began to land very hard right hand shots that were blasting Angulo. He kept taking the punches and kept on coming but he seemed to slow down from the shots near the end.
Angulo came out a little better in the fifth, making Cintron stand and brawl. Cintron came out stronger in the sixth, going back to the jab and landing his big shots. Angulo looked a bit winded as Cintron continued to come on. In the seventh, Angulo seemed to get a bit on edge, trying everything in his power to catch up to Cintron and land something big. Cintron was able for the most part to stay away and counter.
In the eight, Angulo appeared to get some energy back and began to do better work on the inside. In the ninth, Angulo began to come on because Cintron appeared to be tried and was doing his best to stay away and hold. During the tenth, Angulo was targeting a lot of punches to Cintron's body and it seemed to really hurt Kermit near the end. Both fighters appeared tired in the eleventh but Angulo continued to come as Cintron was trying to survive.
During the twelfth, Cintron did his best to hold when Angulo came in close. Cintron was dead tired but was able to stay away and use his jab to keep Angulo away enough to get to the finish line. In the final ten seconds, Cintron landed some very good bombs.
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