Comments Thread For: Carlos Molina Battles a Case of Mistaken Identity

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LAS VEGAS --- Super-lightweight Carlos Molina of Norwalk used to have a laugh when people would mistake him for IBF junior-middleweight world champion Carlos Molina of Chicago, Ill.

"Even some of my family members, when he would be fighting, they would say, 'Hey, good luck on your fight,' (and I'm like), 'It's not me,'" said Molina, who faces former world champion Adrien Broner on the Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana undercard on Saturday at the MGM Grand on Showtime PPV.
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[Hougigo]

closest you'll ever be to being a champ.

Might as well roll with it so you seem better than you are

Too mean?

[Emon723]

Khan beat him, but can Khan beat the other Molina that defeated Ishe Smith and drew once with Chavez Jr.

[Russian Crushin]

Maybe because he is a LW prospect who has never even beaten a top 10 fighter in his division?

[LouIE G]

How shocked would the nsb community be if molina actually beat broner!!! I'am hoping he could beat cloner..!war molina

[ShoulderRoll]

The fact that this bout is at 140 makes it more egregious that Lampley would mistake him for the other one. Didn't Jim stop himself to ask how a 154 pound fighter suddenly dropped down two weight classes to fight at junior welter?

You would expect that kind of lazy thinking from a casual but not from a professional whose work revolves around the sport.

[chocolate]

It was probably a deliberate and strategic decision that Molina, who shares a name with a more successful, higher-profile fighter, was chosen as Broner's opponent. Broner's mentor Floyd Mayweather Jr. did the same thing in 1997 when he picked a 1-13 fighter by the name of Jesus Chavez to pad his record. At that time Mayweather and future two-division titleholder also by the name of Jesus Chavez were vying for supremacy in the same division.

I disagree. Molina has clearly been cherrypicked because he is short, easy to hit, has average speed and does not carry alot of power at 140. Watch the Khan fight the guy was hitting Khan flush with left hooks and could not even stagger or hurt him and made Khan look like a granite chinned fighter in that fight. Khan hit Molina so many times he fractured both of his hands in the fight.

Look at this photo of Khan's hands after the Molina fight - http://www1.skysports.com/boxing/new...-carlos-molina

[lutenco]

It was a strategy to make fans not carefull think/believe that BRONER was fighting a 154 world champion after a brutal beating from MAIDANA at 147;that would have been a great bold move but obviously it's not the real story;he is fighting a superlightweight bum not fighting since DECEMBER 2012(LOSS) and NOT EVEN RANKED...WOW BRONER,WOW

[Jloro]

It was a strategy to make fans not carefull think/believe that BRONER was fighting a 154 world champion after a brutal beating from MAIDANA at 147;that would have been a great bold move but obviously it's not the real story;he is fighting a superlightweight bum not fighting since DECEMBER 2012(LOSS) and NOT EVEN RANKED...WOW BRONER,WOW

Almost like headlining a PPV against Brandon Rios loll

[lutenco]

Almost like headlining a PPV against Brandon Rios loll

So BRANDON RIOS is like the unknown CARLOS MOLINA ? ahhahahahahhhahah,do you know RIOS beat BRONER and this unknown bum in the same night? Do you know RIOS is the one who gave a beating to MAIDANA when he started to train in his gym with GARCIA ? BRANDON RIOS is considered a HELL OF TOUGH MAN in the game by everybody,do you believe BRONER has the same reputation?
Try again !!!