By Mark Vester
A few years ago during a sparring session, Mark "Poison" Suarez (25-2, 13KOs) was sparring with the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. The unexpected happened, as Suarez landed a hard shot that sent Mayweather down. At that moment, observers knew the unheralded fighter could punch.
Winner of his last seven fights, all by knockout, with only two defeats by very close decisions, Suarez wants to show Kermit Cintron (26-1, 24KOs) the same power he showed Mayweather. Suarez, a six-foot, physically large welterweight, is dreaming of winning the vacant IBF welterweight title when he clashes with Cintron on October 28, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Cintron, also a huge puncher that knocked out 24 out of his 27 opponents, holding one of the best knockout ratios in the sport, wants to make Suarez victim number 25. Cintron told The Press-Enterprise that he knows very little about Suarez, other than the fact that he can hit.
"I don't know much about him, nobody does," said Cintron "I was at his (Suarez) fight in New York, but it ended so quickly I couldn't tell what kind of fighter he was."
Someone is going to go to sleep. The question is who? Some say the first man to land the first big bomb, others say it's going to be a war until one of them begins to have stamina issues.
Cintron has been training very hard for the last couple of weeks with his trainer Manny Steward in the Poconos. Steward is also currently training IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko there as well, and you can almost be sure that Klitschko is giving the younger and less experienced Cintron some advice for victory.
