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By Cliff Rold - Opportunity knocks and sometimes doors swing wide. Others, they weigh down like heaven tugging to keep the Devil out.
Opportunity knocked for a pair of veterans scheduled to face off this Friday night in Mexico City. They were not good enough to answer.
And yet, there they will be, ring center, at the Vivo Cuervo Salon, ears to the door, waiting for one more rap along oak growing thicker by the waged round, both looking to turn wins in their most recent fights into a winning streak.
Mexico’s 35-year old Cosme Rivera (32-14-2, 23 KO) and Colombia’s 41-year old Antonio Pitalua (52-5, 46 KO) might never get the knock they’re looking for. In the meantime, fight fans get something all too often underappreciated: an honest prizefight between old warhorses with nothing more than pride on the line.
The Welterweight battle will air as the main event on Spanish language network Telemundo at 11:35 PM EST/PST.
Of the two, Rivera’s knocks have been fewer by one but grander in scale. In 2005, after stopping Hercules Kyvelos to earn an IBF mandatory, Rivera got a crack at the undisputed Welterweight Championship of the World then held by Zab Judah.
Judah stopped Rivera in three rounds.
If Rivera’s relevance had ended there, it would have been okay. He got there. He went out on his shield. There is honor in that. However, even in losing six of eleven contests since his title shot, Rivera has arguably done more to etch himself into the minds of fight fans than he did before the Judah defeat. [Click Here To Read More]
Opportunity knocked for a pair of veterans scheduled to face off this Friday night in Mexico City. They were not good enough to answer.
And yet, there they will be, ring center, at the Vivo Cuervo Salon, ears to the door, waiting for one more rap along oak growing thicker by the waged round, both looking to turn wins in their most recent fights into a winning streak.
Mexico’s 35-year old Cosme Rivera (32-14-2, 23 KO) and Colombia’s 41-year old Antonio Pitalua (52-5, 46 KO) might never get the knock they’re looking for. In the meantime, fight fans get something all too often underappreciated: an honest prizefight between old warhorses with nothing more than pride on the line.
The Welterweight battle will air as the main event on Spanish language network Telemundo at 11:35 PM EST/PST.
Of the two, Rivera’s knocks have been fewer by one but grander in scale. In 2005, after stopping Hercules Kyvelos to earn an IBF mandatory, Rivera got a crack at the undisputed Welterweight Championship of the World then held by Zab Judah.
Judah stopped Rivera in three rounds.
If Rivera’s relevance had ended there, it would have been okay. He got there. He went out on his shield. There is honor in that. However, even in losing six of eleven contests since his title shot, Rivera has arguably done more to etch himself into the minds of fight fans than he did before the Judah defeat. [Click Here To Read More]
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