Joan Guzman: Weight and See - Redux

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By Jake Donovan - Fighter trains for a planned trip to Scotland, with a WBO title at stake. Fight is delayed – and again. Fight is eventually cancelled altogether, with fighter moving up to a new weight class.

It's been an all-too familiar scenario for undefeated soon-to-be ex-junior lightweight Joan Guzman, whose team informed BoxingScene.com Tuesday evening of their plans to vacate his current alphabet title in search of bigger and better fights at lightweight.

The plans functionally kill any hope of rescheduling a planned mandatory defense against Scottish junior lightweight Alex Arthur, who will most likely receive an upgrade from interim titlist to full-term status without so much as stepping foot in the ring.

While Guzman knows his next bout will take place at lightweight, when he elects to return to the ring is unknown. More pressing issues have surfaced, with news of his mother developing a head tumor forcing the Dominican to momentarily step away from the sport. [details]

[ИATAS]

good read. ****ty situation all around, really pisses me off that he cant land any meaningful fights.

[dmendoz6]

Its cause no one wants to fight him honestly none of the big names will fight because he can beat them all, at 130 that is, now at 135 hopefully he'll get his shot at some big names I know juan diaz, katsidis,nate campbell will all be exciting opponents to to see him in the ring with. Pac will still duck him though.

[IwatchBoxing]

Lightweght is gonna be a crazy divsion, with Khan, Marquez, Casamayor, Guzman and Jorge Luis Teron squeezed in, some great fights are about to happen in that one divsion.

[v.cassiusali@ya]

nobody seems to be interested in fighting guzman because he is such a boring boxer. he knows nothing but hugging and running in the ring. a good boxer never runs out of quality opponents.

look at pacman, everybody seems to be interested in fighting him because he brings excitement and promises a big payday for his opponent.

if joan cannot give excitement in the lower weight, how much more in the heavier weight? his unblemished record spells NOTHING!

[Sin City]

nobody seems to be interested in fighting guzman because he is such a boring boxer. he knows nothing but hugging and running in the ring. a good boxer never runs out of quality opponents.

look at pacman, everybody seems to be interested in fighting him because he brings excitement and promises a big payday for his opponent.

if joan cannot give excitement in the lower weight, how much more in the heavier weight? his unblemished record spells NOTHING!

You don't know **** about Guzman and I doubt you have seen him fight.
He did a littlebit of running against Soto I will agree but still humiliated him and looked good in the fight coming of a long lay off which was nearly a year.
Other then that fight though he has dominated all of his opponent and isn't the type of fighter to just run or clinch..

anyway, you just discredited yourself and your future posts by posting that dumb ass statement.

[shadeyfizzle]

You don't know **** about Guzman and I doubt you have seen him fight.
He did a littlebit of running against Soto I will agree but still humiliated him and looked good in the fight coming of a long lay off which was nearly a year.
Other then that fight though he has dominated all of his opponent and isn't the type of fighter to just run or clinch..

anyway, you just discredited yourself and your future posts by posting that dumb ass statement.

When people say running in boxing its usually a relative term but in Guzman's case he literally ran to the other side of the ring against Soto when he got backed into the ropes. True he looked solid against Soto but any other top name at 130 or 135 would have looked just as impressive against Soto WITHOUT the running..even in its more conventional context.

[good_looking01]

That sucks all round. This year seems cursed for fight cancellations!!

[DuttyAlacrity]

THat does kinda suck
I would love to see Guzman and Marquez though... then the winner fights pacman

[Katz]

poor Joana Guzrun can't draw ****.

He should quit boxing and shift to track and field.