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Showtime has a potential Gem on their hands this weekend, september 1st, on Showbox.
Victor Oganov is a massive puncher, stopping all 26 of his opponents. But his competition has been week. Zuniga is a considerable step up in competition for Victor, and it took the huge Kelly Pavlik 9 rounds to stop him. Pavlik remains the only man to stop Zuniga. Oganov is also a pressure fighter that loves to have his man fighting off the ropes. In fact, BOTH guys like to come forward which makes this fight so interesting.
Zuniga has been in with sluggers before, winning a controversial decision and drawing with Jose Luis Zertuche (another Pavlik victim), and getting outboxed by Daniel Santos, and dominating a faded Atwun Echols in his most recent bout. Zuniga can punch, and he has a tendancy to completely neglect defense when he's on the offensive. And much like his fellow Columbian Edison Miranda, Zuniga tends to throw low blows and hit on the clinch.
This a classic matchup between the volume punching of Zuniga, versus the Power shots of Oganov.
Its a close fight IMO, im picking Zuniga. BUT, Zuniga has a history of fading badly in some of his fights, and its cost him close decisions. He faded badly agaisnt Echols, and Echols took most of the last 4 rounds of the fight, landing scorching blows that would have dropped a lesser fighter. Luckily for Zuniga it was a 10 rounder, cause he would have certainly been stopped had the fight been 12 rounds. If Oganov punches as hard as they say he does, maybe he comes on strong in the waning rounds of the bout and stops Zuniga. But its yet to be seen if he can even hit harder the Antwun Echols.
BOTH guys have very fan friendly styles and its my belief that when they meets its gonna be a fantastic fight. A memorable fight even. The winner goes on to bigger and better things.
I cant find any footage of ZUNIGA for you guys, you'll have to take my word that he's entertaining. But heres some footage of VICTOR OGANOV. This first round is a Round of the Year Contender. Amazing stuff.
Victor Oganov is a massive puncher, stopping all 26 of his opponents. But his competition has been week. Zuniga is a considerable step up in competition for Victor, and it took the huge Kelly Pavlik 9 rounds to stop him. Pavlik remains the only man to stop Zuniga. Oganov is also a pressure fighter that loves to have his man fighting off the ropes. In fact, BOTH guys like to come forward which makes this fight so interesting.
Zuniga has been in with sluggers before, winning a controversial decision and drawing with Jose Luis Zertuche (another Pavlik victim), and getting outboxed by Daniel Santos, and dominating a faded Atwun Echols in his most recent bout. Zuniga can punch, and he has a tendancy to completely neglect defense when he's on the offensive. And much like his fellow Columbian Edison Miranda, Zuniga tends to throw low blows and hit on the clinch.
This a classic matchup between the volume punching of Zuniga, versus the Power shots of Oganov.
Its a close fight IMO, im picking Zuniga. BUT, Zuniga has a history of fading badly in some of his fights, and its cost him close decisions. He faded badly agaisnt Echols, and Echols took most of the last 4 rounds of the fight, landing scorching blows that would have dropped a lesser fighter. Luckily for Zuniga it was a 10 rounder, cause he would have certainly been stopped had the fight been 12 rounds. If Oganov punches as hard as they say he does, maybe he comes on strong in the waning rounds of the bout and stops Zuniga. But its yet to be seen if he can even hit harder the Antwun Echols.
BOTH guys have very fan friendly styles and its my belief that when they meets its gonna be a fantastic fight. A memorable fight even. The winner goes on to bigger and better things.
I cant find any footage of ZUNIGA for you guys, you'll have to take my word that he's entertaining. But heres some footage of VICTOR OGANOV. This first round is a Round of the Year Contender. Amazing stuff.
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