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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - CARSON, Calif. – If anyone had answers… they weren’t shouting them out.
Instead, deep in the bowels of the Home Depot Center, the visitors’ locker room that served as home base for Team Cintron on Saturday night was noticeable only for its funeral quiet.
As members of the entourage milled around with post-fight duties, trainer Ronnie Shields hunched silently on a locker-front bench while the group’s signature leader – 31-year-old Puerto Rican-turned-Pennsylvanian Kermit Cintron – stood alongside trying to explain, perhaps to himself, what exactly had gone so wrong.
“I was expecting to win the fight, you know. I (expletive) trained really hard for this fight,” he said, sighing deeply as reddened eyes stared blankly to the floor. “It’s definitely a big disappointment for me and definitely I’m disappointed for my team. I was really expecting to win the fight.
“I really had big plans after this fight.”
Instead, Cintron’s return after 14 months of self-induced sabbatical was stunningly downbeat, as the former welterweight champion was listless in losing a unanimous verdict to Carlos Molina in their 10-round junior middleweight bout on Showtime’s Rios-Antillon undercard.
All three judges scored it 98-92 in favor of Molina, who’d entered with an unremarkable 18-4-2 record, but had not lost since 2007 and had never been beaten by anything less than an unbeaten fighter.
The Fitzbitz scorecard penned from seat C-3 on press row agreed with the official versions, favoring Cintron in just two rounds – three and six.
The sixth was the only round he won across the board with the judges.
One gave him the first and two gave him the seventh. [Click Here To Read More]
Instead, deep in the bowels of the Home Depot Center, the visitors’ locker room that served as home base for Team Cintron on Saturday night was noticeable only for its funeral quiet.
As members of the entourage milled around with post-fight duties, trainer Ronnie Shields hunched silently on a locker-front bench while the group’s signature leader – 31-year-old Puerto Rican-turned-Pennsylvanian Kermit Cintron – stood alongside trying to explain, perhaps to himself, what exactly had gone so wrong.
“I was expecting to win the fight, you know. I (expletive) trained really hard for this fight,” he said, sighing deeply as reddened eyes stared blankly to the floor. “It’s definitely a big disappointment for me and definitely I’m disappointed for my team. I was really expecting to win the fight.
“I really had big plans after this fight.”
Instead, Cintron’s return after 14 months of self-induced sabbatical was stunningly downbeat, as the former welterweight champion was listless in losing a unanimous verdict to Carlos Molina in their 10-round junior middleweight bout on Showtime’s Rios-Antillon undercard.
All three judges scored it 98-92 in favor of Molina, who’d entered with an unremarkable 18-4-2 record, but had not lost since 2007 and had never been beaten by anything less than an unbeaten fighter.
The Fitzbitz scorecard penned from seat C-3 on press row agreed with the official versions, favoring Cintron in just two rounds – three and six.
The sixth was the only round he won across the board with the judges.
One gave him the first and two gave him the seventh. [Click Here To Read More]
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