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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Forget “Hurricane.”
Or the Spanish version – “Huracán” – for that matter.
If Puerto Rican-born Bronx resident Melissa Hernandez wanted a nickname to truly represent her fighting mindset, it’d be more along the lines of “Road Warrior.”
“I love traveling,” she said. “That’s part of the perks of being a professional fighter. I’ve gotten to see places I would have never seen, and I love it.
“I think it’s to my advantage to fight on the road and go into other people’s backyards and learn to succeed. To me, the ones who are strictly home-based are cheating themselves.”
Now 30 years old and a pro since 2005, the certainly-not-shy Hernandez adds an 11th state to her “I’ve fought there” travelogue on Saturday night when she meets capable female gatekeeper Victoria Cisneros at the Santa Ana Star Casino in Bernalillo, N.M.
Also included are pages on Canada and Panama, where she fought in 2006 and 2009.
“I’m never afraid to go somewhere and put on a good show,” she said. “People know that when they get me, they’re getting the female version of Hector Camacho.”
The scheduled 10-rounder is an interim lightweight title fight in the eyes of the Women’s International Boxing Association, and a win over Cisneros would add a fourth belt to the collection Hernandez started with the WIBA super bantamweight championship in 2006, the Global Boxing Union lightweight title in 2007 and the WIBA super featherweight title in 2008. [Click Here To Read More]
Or the Spanish version – “Huracán” – for that matter.
If Puerto Rican-born Bronx resident Melissa Hernandez wanted a nickname to truly represent her fighting mindset, it’d be more along the lines of “Road Warrior.”
“I love traveling,” she said. “That’s part of the perks of being a professional fighter. I’ve gotten to see places I would have never seen, and I love it.
“I think it’s to my advantage to fight on the road and go into other people’s backyards and learn to succeed. To me, the ones who are strictly home-based are cheating themselves.”
Now 30 years old and a pro since 2005, the certainly-not-shy Hernandez adds an 11th state to her “I’ve fought there” travelogue on Saturday night when she meets capable female gatekeeper Victoria Cisneros at the Santa Ana Star Casino in Bernalillo, N.M.
Also included are pages on Canada and Panama, where she fought in 2006 and 2009.
“I’m never afraid to go somewhere and put on a good show,” she said. “People know that when they get me, they’re getting the female version of Hector Camacho.”
The scheduled 10-rounder is an interim lightweight title fight in the eyes of the Women’s International Boxing Association, and a win over Cisneros would add a fourth belt to the collection Hernandez started with the WIBA super bantamweight championship in 2006, the Global Boxing Union lightweight title in 2007 and the WIBA super featherweight title in 2008. [Click Here To Read More]
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