In the lead-up to this fight, there were a lot of great fights that were going to be presented around the same time. There was a DISTINCT thread asking posters which of the fights had the best chance of an upset, most people said other fighters had better chances of upsets than Salido against Juanma.
You can check my post history, I never once felt comfortable about that fight and never saw Salido as a pushover, not by a longshot. It was perplexing to me how people were dismissing Salido as just another opponent that Juanma would take out late (or decision comfortably).
At the time, all I knew about Salido was that I had seen him on an HBO card facing Yuriorkis Gamboa in which he was able to hold his own (but still lost by a wide margin).
Just browsing around right now thinking about the fight, it's incredible to think about how much of an underdog he was proclaimed yet when you look at his record, it's astounding to see the following:
1. Loss against Yuriorkis Gamboa by decision (knocked him down once in the fight)
2. Decisioned Robert Guerrero (but had the decision overturned due to a failed drug test)
3. Lost against Juan Manuel Márquez by decision(wow!)
4. Stopped Rogers Mtagwa in five rounds (Mtagwa, who got blown out by Gamboa yet almost stopped Juanma in the last two rounds of their fight)
Just sayin'. If anybody wants to bet with me, I'll give you 2 to 1 odds that Juanma gets beat again. My 1M to anyone's 500k.
Seeing these kind of things makes me much more confident that Salido will win in the rematch.
You can check my post history, I never once felt comfortable about that fight and never saw Salido as a pushover, not by a longshot. It was perplexing to me how people were dismissing Salido as just another opponent that Juanma would take out late (or decision comfortably).
At the time, all I knew about Salido was that I had seen him on an HBO card facing Yuriorkis Gamboa in which he was able to hold his own (but still lost by a wide margin).
Just browsing around right now thinking about the fight, it's incredible to think about how much of an underdog he was proclaimed yet when you look at his record, it's astounding to see the following:
1. Loss against Yuriorkis Gamboa by decision (knocked him down once in the fight)
2. Decisioned Robert Guerrero (but had the decision overturned due to a failed drug test)
3. Lost against Juan Manuel Márquez by decision(wow!)
4. Stopped Rogers Mtagwa in five rounds (Mtagwa, who got blown out by Gamboa yet almost stopped Juanma in the last two rounds of their fight)
Just sayin'. If anybody wants to bet with me, I'll give you 2 to 1 odds that Juanma gets beat again. My 1M to anyone's 500k.
Seeing these kind of things makes me much more confident that Salido will win in the rematch.
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