Mayol is Looking Good as He Prepares For Calderon
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
Conditioning expert Alex Ariza says former light flyweight title challenger Rodel Mayol (25-3, 19 KO’s) is “looking good” as he works out at the Wild Card Gym of Freddie Roach in preparation for his title fight against undefeated 33 year old WBO champion Ivan “El Nino” Calderon (32-0, 16 KO’s) .
The Mayol-Calderon title bout will take place on the undercard of the Miguel Cotto-Joshua Clottey welterweight title fight at Madison Square Garden on June 13.
Ariza told BoxingScene.com, insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports that although he unfortunately is not handling the conditioning of Mayol he works from 2-3 hours a day with Filipino trainer Restituto “Buboy” Fernandez said Mayol “looks good to me. He works really hard every day, his sparring looks good.”
Mayol is among the fighters being handled by Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and his adviser Michael Koncz.
Calderon is coming off a fairly long layoff having last fought on August 30, 2008 when he won a 7th round technical decision in a rematch with Hugo Fidel Cazares The fight was stopped due to a severely lacerated forehead of Calderon caused by an accidental headbutt. In their first encounter Calderon retained his WBO title with a split decision.
The 27 year old Mayol had two shots at a world title and lost on both occasions. He dropped a twelve round unanimous decision to EagleKyowa in a WBC minimum weight title fight on May 6, 2006 and then clashed with Ulises Solis for the IBF light flyweight title on August 4, 2007 and lost by an 8th round TKO.
