Comments Thread For: Fernando Vargas Hires Mayweather Sr. as Trainer

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Former two time junior middleweight champion Fernando Vargas has hired Floyd Mayweather Sr. to train him as he attempts a comeback after a two year hiatus from the ring. Feroz is planning a ring return in the late spring or early fall. [Click Here To Read More]

[csko-2k1]

will he be fighting at heavyweight cause that guy is huge in belly weight.....lmao...i hope he fights at super welter so that he can fight p.williams

[djsygo]

Aww man, he looked really as out of shape as "out of shapeness" can be last time i saw him.

[livedj1]

Stay retired Fernando

You cant take a punch anymore. Just like Roy Jones, 1st good shot will take you out.

[Shadow boxer 3]

i wonder what weight. last time i saw him he was fat as hell

[larry x]

this should be good

[JFB629]

First off am fairly quite shocked that Vargas is defiantley coming out of retirement and second of he has hired Floyd Mayweather Sr as his trainer. A pretty starnge combination to say the least.

I don't know if it's a good move. Vargas has put on a tremndous amount of weight in the time he has been retired and dosent' look like he has went near a gym in that time. In his last performance against the faded Ricardo Mayorga, he looked washed up, and out of shape, and his punch resistance looked dredfull.

Even though he is only still 31 years of age, he is a young man, but a old fighter. He has been boxing from a extremley young age, had a huge amature pedigree and a hard Pro career, which included some grulling fights, at such a young age.

I feel he won't be able to compete on the top level no more. It will also be interesting to see what weight he fights at. Because if he chooses 168, the weight at which he last fought at. I feel he would be risking his health.

I can imagine he will fight Hector Camacho Jr, a fighter who is past his prime and dosen't take the sport as serious as he should. It goes to show you, how serious he takes his career by fighting and calling out washed up fighters that were in there peak 10+ years ago.

So Vargas has a good chance at beating him, but that dosent say much. In his last fight Camacho Jr just about beat washed up Journyman Yori Boy Campus on a SD.

At his peak do, Vargas was a sensation. He was a incredible amature. Winning the Won the 132-lb Junior Olympics Box-Offs, Junior Olympics International tournament, 1995 Pan American Games Bronze Medal, and represeneted 1996 U.S. Olympic Team, going out in the second round, on a questionable decision to Marian Simion.

He was the youngest ever 154lb champion winning the Title from 74 fight veteran Yori Boy Campus at the age of 21 years and 5 months.

He defended that Title 5 times. Including wins over the likes of Winky Wright, Ike Quartey, and Raul Marquez.

But he then met the 38-0 Felix Trinidad. In a highly anticapted unification fight, Trinidad took something deep out of Vargas that he was never able to recover from.

In the most exciting fight in 154lb History Trinidad stopped Varags in 12 brutal rounds, but he didn't have it all his own way. Vargas would drop Tito and win a majority of the rounds, before being knocked out in the 12th.

Vargas was never the same. But he was still good enough to capture another world title and defeat the likes of Wilfredo Rivera and Javier Castillejo, but would go on to suffer KO defeats to arch enemy Oscar De La Hoya and Shane Mosely.

Vargas is credited with being one of the most exciting and entertaining fighters of this era and had a never say die attitude.

[dde91]

Well we know he'll fight a lesser opponent, but well see if he still got it. I think he'll be a middleweight. Dont think he could make 154 anymore and maybe he cant make 160. but we'll see.

[Libido Sanchez]

I want to say War Feroz! but the comeback doesn't seem like a good idea. At all.

Still, hiring Sr. is intriguing... At least the press conferences should be entertaining.

[WarriorSoul]

The last time I saw Vargas I think he weighed more that Arreola .