Gerry Penalosa, how good was he?

[JOM'S]

Oh yeah im the bias one*rolleys*

Pay attention.

Gery Penalosa has not won a World Title fight is 7 ****ing years.

He held a belt in the late 90's for 1 whole year and made 2 defenses against nobodies, Oh my god what a dominate and great champion he was.

He has done NOTHING to even deserve a title shot. Let alone at a p4p fighter like Rafeal Marquez.

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woot!!! finally after those long years ... at long last ...

Gerry won a well deserve title belt!!!

you guys seen him as an aging fighter against ponce and gonzalez, no where near his prime but he still fought these young champs competitively...

now could you guys see what we pinoys see in him??

[JOM'S]

although this is a nuthugging piece, i agree on the "comeback of the year" ...

Will Penalosa Win the Triple Crown?
By Brett Conway (Aug 15, 2007) Photo © German Villasenor

Behind on points, chasing a fighter content to keep him at bay with a jab and shoeshine combinations, Gerry Penalosa kept plugging away and didn’t waver from his plan: shots to the body will weaken and put away the already weight drained bantamweight champion.

Finally, the moment came. Jhonny Gonzalez threw a right hand and the southpaw Penalosa dodged it but came back with a left hand of his own. Gonzalez, a good boxer with good fundamentals, brought his right back and with it an elbow to guard the rib cage. It arrived a nanosecond too late. Penalosa’s punch landed just underneath it. It took a second or two before the punch to the liver communicated the pain to his body but when it did he, like Oscar De La Hoya against Bernard Hopkins or Leonard Dorin against Arturo Gatti, collapsed and gasped for breath. All the air in the room must have been ****** down by the audience that witnessed that punch, for Gonzalez hands on the ropes in a corner couldn’t find any for himself. He was counted out with less than a minute remaining in the seventh round. Penalosa became the new WBO bantamweight champion.

Gerry Penalosa, with that one shot, achieved the seemingly impossible. A 35-year old in a division where fighters are usually washed up at the age of 30, Penalosa has beaten down two fighters so far in 2007. Back in March against WBO super bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon (who defeated Rey Bautista in the first on the same card as Penalosa-Gonzalez), Penalosa withstood an early storm from the hard punching Mexican but came back with precise counters. He threw enough hard stuff at Ponce De Leon that the champion for the first time in his career decided to turn into Sugar Ray Robinson. He danced and moved and jabbed, trying to keep Penalosa away. Although most ringside press appeared to have Penalosa winning, the judges didn’t see it that way and gave the decision to the busier but less effective Ponce De Leon.

With his showings against Ponce De Leon and Jhonny Gonzalez, two fighters ranked highly in the boxing world, both punchers with Gonzalez being a good boxer as well, Penalosa has put himself into an elite position in the sport. In fact, he has shown himself so well that come the end of 2007 I think he will be a candidate for three awards from the bible of boxing, Ring magazine: comeback of the year, knockout of the year, and fight of the year.

to read more ... click http://www.maxboxing.com/conway/conway081507.asp

[kadyo's]

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woot!!! finally after those long years ... at long last ...

Gerry won a well deserve title belt!!!

you guys seen him as an aging fighter against ponce and gonzalez, no where near his prime but he still fought these young champs competitively...

now could you guys see what we pinoys see in him??

hahaha! now where the heck is jose?

[Papa Ace]

Gerry Penalosa, with that one shot, achieved the seemingly impossible. A 35-year old in a division where fighters are usually washed up at the age of 30, Penalosa has beaten down two fighters so far in 2007. Back in March against WBO super bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon (who defeated Rey Bautista in the first on the same card as Penalosa-Gonzalez), Penalosa withstood an early storm from the hard punching Mexican but came back with precise counters. He threw enough hard stuff at Ponce De Leon that the champion for the first time in his career decided to turn into Sugar Ray Robinson. He danced and moved and jabbed, trying to keep Penalosa away. Although most ringside press appeared to have Penalosa winning, the judges didn’t see it that way and gave the decision to the busier but less effective Ponce De Leon.

this will have me laughing for weeks

[JOM'S]

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guys jsut bumping this thread enroute to the penalosa-mares fight, another fight that win or loose will showcase how good a fighter penalosa is...

[JOM'S]

hope the winner gets a crack at bigger fights!

[JOM'S]

although Gerry on his last fight with JML for the first time in his carreer did not finish a fight, Penalosa was not Koed nor KD by the bigger stronger younger champion JuanMa Lopez and had some moments in the fight...

After watching it I was not convinced that the corner should have stopped the fight, my thoughts that not only Gerry could have finished the fight but...

LUCKY I am not a trainer, as recent boxing deaths of a young fighter BJ Flores showed in hindsight Roach made the right decision...

here is an article giving props to the old man gerry!!!

http://maxboxing.com/Conway/Conway051309.asp

[wizzies]

I really think hes a good fighter., very good in defensive.. I think he should retire now., he has nothing to prove.

[We want Floyd]

GP had every punch in the book, and what a fluid fighter he was. PAC is more entertaining to watch, but if you wanna see what the Sweet Science is about, then watch a Gerry Penalosa fight, especially when he was younger.

[JOM'S]

another fight another testament to how good Gerry is ...

http://fightfan.com/2010/02/eric-mor...erry-penalosa/