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Kermit Cintron was scheduled to appeal his controversial May 8 loss to Paul Williams in a hearing Monday before the California State Athletic Commission.
But given nearly three months to allow the frustration to subside, the Sinking Spring resident decided to move on.
Cintron's team quietly withdrew its appeal Friday. Cintron's name still appeared on the minutes that were made available to the public for Monday's commission meeting.
"The final analysis, we just decided to move on," Cintron manager Josh Dubin told the Reading Eagle. "Hopefully Paul Williams will decide to give us the rematch, and HBO or Showtime will want to buy it."
Cintron-Williams ended abruptly when Williams slipped to the canvas, and Cintron (32-3-1) stumbled over top of him and sailed through the ropes and out of the ring early in the fourth round of their junior middleweight bout at Carson, Calif.
Cintron was held down and told not to move by the ringside physician, who ruled that he could not continue. Cintron said he wanted to fight on, and complained that he wasn't given the mandated five minutes of recovery time before the bout was stopped.
Due to California rules, the bout went to the scorecards, with the judges forced to score a fourth round that was only 35 seconds old. Two judges scored it for Williams, while the other judge had Cintron winning every round.
Cintron's team wanted the result of the bout changed to a technical draw or a no-contest.
"We withdrew the appeal for a number of reasons, one being that, while we thought we were going to be successful and the right thing to do would be to declare it a no-contest, that the cost-benefit analysis of investing the time and money to go out to California, we don't know how much difference it would have made to HBO," said Dubin.
"Kermit didn't want it to appear that he was crying over spilled milk," Dubin said. "He knows he was winning the fight and the fight was going his way, and it was a freak and unfortunate thing that happened."
Cintron has struggled to find a meaningful opponent since the Williams loss. In a recent interview with FanHouse.com, Cintron promoter Lou DiBella said his fighter is being punished by HBO, which aired the fight, for what happened against Williams.
DiBella said he hopes to have a fight for Cintron this fall. Dubin named Williams, middleweight champ Sergio Martinez, junior middleweight belt-holder Miguel Cotto, and former welterweight champ Zab Judah as potential targets.
"I think something that always gets lost in the shuffle with Kermit," Dubin said, "is that he's willing to fight anyone."
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But given nearly three months to allow the frustration to subside, the Sinking Spring resident decided to move on.
Cintron's team quietly withdrew its appeal Friday. Cintron's name still appeared on the minutes that were made available to the public for Monday's commission meeting.
"The final analysis, we just decided to move on," Cintron manager Josh Dubin told the Reading Eagle. "Hopefully Paul Williams will decide to give us the rematch, and HBO or Showtime will want to buy it."
Cintron-Williams ended abruptly when Williams slipped to the canvas, and Cintron (32-3-1) stumbled over top of him and sailed through the ropes and out of the ring early in the fourth round of their junior middleweight bout at Carson, Calif.
Cintron was held down and told not to move by the ringside physician, who ruled that he could not continue. Cintron said he wanted to fight on, and complained that he wasn't given the mandated five minutes of recovery time before the bout was stopped.
Due to California rules, the bout went to the scorecards, with the judges forced to score a fourth round that was only 35 seconds old. Two judges scored it for Williams, while the other judge had Cintron winning every round.
Cintron's team wanted the result of the bout changed to a technical draw or a no-contest.
"We withdrew the appeal for a number of reasons, one being that, while we thought we were going to be successful and the right thing to do would be to declare it a no-contest, that the cost-benefit analysis of investing the time and money to go out to California, we don't know how much difference it would have made to HBO," said Dubin.
"Kermit didn't want it to appear that he was crying over spilled milk," Dubin said. "He knows he was winning the fight and the fight was going his way, and it was a freak and unfortunate thing that happened."
Cintron has struggled to find a meaningful opponent since the Williams loss. In a recent interview with FanHouse.com, Cintron promoter Lou DiBella said his fighter is being punished by HBO, which aired the fight, for what happened against Williams.
DiBella said he hopes to have a fight for Cintron this fall. Dubin named Williams, middleweight champ Sergio Martinez, junior middleweight belt-holder Miguel Cotto, and former welterweight champ Zab Judah as potential targets.
"I think something that always gets lost in the shuffle with Kermit," Dubin said, "is that he's willing to fight anyone."
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