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By Thomas Gerbasi - “I’m a firm believer of destiny,” said Sergio Mora during a recent teleconference to promote his Saturday main event bout against Sugar Shane Mosley in Los Angeles.
That’s not surprising, and there are plenty of people out there who join ‘The Latin Snake’ in that assertion, mainly because it’s always looked to the world that if there was the prototype for a star in a business that is in short supply of them, it was Mora.
A native of East Los Angeles, the same area that launched the career of ‘The Golden Boy’ himself, Oscar De La Hoya, Mora had the built-in geographical hook. Then came his stint on NBC’s ‘The Contender’, which brought his engaging personality and matinee idol looks into the nation’s living rooms every week. But somewhere between his reality television wins and Saturday night at STAPLES Center, something happened – or more apt, something didn’t happen.
Pegged with an albatross of a contract with ‘The Contender’ folks, which limited him to just three fights from the time the show ended in May of 2005 through 2006, things went from bad to worse in 2007, when he turned down a shot at Jermain Taylor’s middleweight title, saw a fight with Kassim Ouma get scrapped, and then suffered the first blemish on his record when he drew with Elvin Ayala in October of that year. [Click Here To Read More]
That’s not surprising, and there are plenty of people out there who join ‘The Latin Snake’ in that assertion, mainly because it’s always looked to the world that if there was the prototype for a star in a business that is in short supply of them, it was Mora.
A native of East Los Angeles, the same area that launched the career of ‘The Golden Boy’ himself, Oscar De La Hoya, Mora had the built-in geographical hook. Then came his stint on NBC’s ‘The Contender’, which brought his engaging personality and matinee idol looks into the nation’s living rooms every week. But somewhere between his reality television wins and Saturday night at STAPLES Center, something happened – or more apt, something didn’t happen.
Pegged with an albatross of a contract with ‘The Contender’ folks, which limited him to just three fights from the time the show ended in May of 2005 through 2006, things went from bad to worse in 2007, when he turned down a shot at Jermain Taylor’s middleweight title, saw a fight with Kassim Ouma get scrapped, and then suffered the first blemish on his record when he drew with Elvin Ayala in October of that year. [Click Here To Read More]
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