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ESPN put on a good Pay-Per-View show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Saturday night, and with thirty quality dollars spent on four fights, many boxing fans should feel content, like the feeling of appreciation one develops after completing a fantastic meal. In this week’s edition of Fighting Words, we’ll break down what each of the matches on the ESPN PPV mean for the pugilists, delve into other action from the past week (including Dominick Guinn’s draw and Wladimir Klitschko’s twelve-minute workout), wrapping things up, of course, in The Ten Count with commentary on the two episodes of The Contender shown on NBC this Sunday.
Antonio Margarito Overwhelms Kermit Cintron
A brief cable outage notwithstanding, this welterweight showdown between Margarito, the WBO champion, and a highly regarded contender in Cintron was the most exciting, albeit surprising bout of the night.
This columnist cannot claim to have predicted that Margarito would whoop Cintron, overwhelming and frustrating the previously undefeated Puerto Rican to the point that he would look to his corner for an early end to his night. Margarito left me unsold, especially after he struggled with Daniel Santos, even if that technical loss was at junior middleweight against a much bigger body.
With my only sight of Cintron being his throwing down with Teddy Reid last July, I, like some press, expected a Fight of the Year candidate, hopefully with evenly matched back-and-forth action.
Instead, Margarito cut Cintron, knocked him down a total of four times, and while Cintron got back up each time and attempted to hold on for dear life, his face told the story. Kermit Cintron did not want to be there any longer, face the adversity and try to comeback in his first shot at a world title.
Cintron will need to regain confidence, go back to the proverbial drawing board and rebuild, while Margarito should take this momentum and stay active while waiting for a unification opportunity against Zab Judah.
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Antonio Margarito Overwhelms Kermit Cintron
A brief cable outage notwithstanding, this welterweight showdown between Margarito, the WBO champion, and a highly regarded contender in Cintron was the most exciting, albeit surprising bout of the night.
This columnist cannot claim to have predicted that Margarito would whoop Cintron, overwhelming and frustrating the previously undefeated Puerto Rican to the point that he would look to his corner for an early end to his night. Margarito left me unsold, especially after he struggled with Daniel Santos, even if that technical loss was at junior middleweight against a much bigger body.
With my only sight of Cintron being his throwing down with Teddy Reid last July, I, like some press, expected a Fight of the Year candidate, hopefully with evenly matched back-and-forth action.
Instead, Margarito cut Cintron, knocked him down a total of four times, and while Cintron got back up each time and attempted to hold on for dear life, his face told the story. Kermit Cintron did not want to be there any longer, face the adversity and try to comeback in his first shot at a world title.
Cintron will need to regain confidence, go back to the proverbial drawing board and rebuild, while Margarito should take this momentum and stay active while waiting for a unification opportunity against Zab Judah.
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