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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Perhaps Manny Pacquiao set a tone.
After a week in which preview stories, radio interviews and water cooler talk about the returning Filipino ex-champion were the norm, this week already seems to be a redux of nostalgia.
Within hours of the Friday weigh-in for Pacquiao’s Saturday fight with Brandon Rios, my other-side-of-the-world cell phone was blowing up with contact from another former holder of a welterweight title belt - one-time IBF champion Kermit Cintron.
The Puerto Rican-born slugger, who discovered boxing long after he’d been a successful high school wrestler in suburban Philadelphia, has flown significantly under the radar since a fifth-round TKO loss to Canelo Alvarez in a 154-pound title shot in 2011.
He was out of the ring for all of 2012 and has returned for a pair of off-the-beaten-path appearances this year, managing a split-decision draw Adrian Granados on March 22 in Chicago before outpointing once-beaten Jonathan Batista five months later in Oklahoma. [Click Here To Read More]
After a week in which preview stories, radio interviews and water cooler talk about the returning Filipino ex-champion were the norm, this week already seems to be a redux of nostalgia.
Within hours of the Friday weigh-in for Pacquiao’s Saturday fight with Brandon Rios, my other-side-of-the-world cell phone was blowing up with contact from another former holder of a welterweight title belt - one-time IBF champion Kermit Cintron.
The Puerto Rican-born slugger, who discovered boxing long after he’d been a successful high school wrestler in suburban Philadelphia, has flown significantly under the radar since a fifth-round TKO loss to Canelo Alvarez in a 154-pound title shot in 2011.
He was out of the ring for all of 2012 and has returned for a pair of off-the-beaten-path appearances this year, managing a split-decision draw Adrian Granados on March 22 in Chicago before outpointing once-beaten Jonathan Batista five months later in Oklahoma. [Click Here To Read More]
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