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By Thomas Gerbasi - In describing WBC super bantamweight champion Victor Terrazas, the man he will be facing on Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, Leo Santa Cruz reserves the highest praise for his Mexican countryman.
“I see another me,” said the former IBF bantamweight king in search of a second divisional world title. “He comes forward, throws a lot of punches, he’s Mexican, and he’s a warrior. So I think it’s going to be a war, and I think whoever comes more prepared is gonna take it that night.”
If you’ve seen Santa Cruz fight before, you would have to think that facing someone like that would be a fate worse than a week’s worth of root canals. But when you present this idea to “Teremoto,” he just laughs.
“It gives me more motivation to go out there and fight hard.”
That’s why Leo Santa Cruz is currently my favorite fighter, the one I will make sure I am home on Saturday night to see fight. And if he’s not your favorite, he’d better be in your top five or you’re just not a boxing fan. Because despite being just 25 years old, the Huetamo native has an old school approach to the fight game, one where you win fights in the most basic of manners: you throw and land more punches than the other guy.
It seems simple, but it’s not. Yet Santa Cruz is on his way to mastering that style, one instilled in him by his father Jose and built on that of the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez. [Click Here To Read More]
“I see another me,” said the former IBF bantamweight king in search of a second divisional world title. “He comes forward, throws a lot of punches, he’s Mexican, and he’s a warrior. So I think it’s going to be a war, and I think whoever comes more prepared is gonna take it that night.”
If you’ve seen Santa Cruz fight before, you would have to think that facing someone like that would be a fate worse than a week’s worth of root canals. But when you present this idea to “Teremoto,” he just laughs.
“It gives me more motivation to go out there and fight hard.”
That’s why Leo Santa Cruz is currently my favorite fighter, the one I will make sure I am home on Saturday night to see fight. And if he’s not your favorite, he’d better be in your top five or you’re just not a boxing fan. Because despite being just 25 years old, the Huetamo native has an old school approach to the fight game, one where you win fights in the most basic of manners: you throw and land more punches than the other guy.
It seems simple, but it’s not. Yet Santa Cruz is on his way to mastering that style, one instilled in him by his father Jose and built on that of the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez. [Click Here To Read More]
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