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By Jake Donovan - Ten days before Santa Claus embarks on a worldwide journey to deliver gifts, Leo Santa Cruz will once again deliver fists in 2012.
In true throwback fashion, the unbeaten bantamweight titlist fights for the fifth time this year when he faces Alberto Guevara this Saturday at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles. Rare is the occasion these days when fighters in their prime even step to the ring three times in a calendar year.
Not only is Santa Cruz (22-0-1, 13KO) cramming in five fights into a 12-month stretch, but his latest ring adventure comes free of charge to all. CBS reenters the boxing fold for the first time in more than 15 years in showcasing boxing’s fastest rising action fighter (Saturday, 4:30PM ET/1:30PM PT).
Santa Cruz was still a few weeks away from his ninth birthday when Bernard Hopkins dismantled then-unbeaten Glen Johnson in July ’97, the last ever main event to air on the network.
“I wasn’t even old enough (to remember watching it),” the red-hot fighter sheepishly admits. [Click Here To Read More]
In true throwback fashion, the unbeaten bantamweight titlist fights for the fifth time this year when he faces Alberto Guevara this Saturday at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles. Rare is the occasion these days when fighters in their prime even step to the ring three times in a calendar year.
Not only is Santa Cruz (22-0-1, 13KO) cramming in five fights into a 12-month stretch, but his latest ring adventure comes free of charge to all. CBS reenters the boxing fold for the first time in more than 15 years in showcasing boxing’s fastest rising action fighter (Saturday, 4:30PM ET/1:30PM PT).
Santa Cruz was still a few weeks away from his ninth birthday when Bernard Hopkins dismantled then-unbeaten Glen Johnson in July ’97, the last ever main event to air on the network.
“I wasn’t even old enough (to remember watching it),” the red-hot fighter sheepishly admits. [Click Here To Read More]
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