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By Thomas Gerbasi - Kermit Cintron loves boxing. Unfortunately, for most of the last eight years his right hand hated it, and it reminded him during practically every one of the 12 fights he engaged in since initially injuring it in 2007 against Jesse Feliciano.
Cintron was the IBF welterweight champion of the world at the time, on his way to either a big rematch with the only man to beat him up to that point, Antonio Margarito, or rising star Paul Williams. He got surgery on his moneymaker after the Feliciano fight, but it didn’t take.
Eventually, he would fight Margarito again, as well as Williams, losing both. There would be big wins over Alfredo Angulo and a draw with Sergio Martinez, but the right hand was rarely the potent weapon it was when he earned the nickname “Killer.”
“My hand was never the same since that fight (against Feliciano),” he said. “I avoided the surgery, and I honestly finished it off with the Ronald Cruz fight. I knew I couldn’t continue my career unless I had the surgery I needed.” [Click Here To Read More]
Cintron was the IBF welterweight champion of the world at the time, on his way to either a big rematch with the only man to beat him up to that point, Antonio Margarito, or rising star Paul Williams. He got surgery on his moneymaker after the Feliciano fight, but it didn’t take.
Eventually, he would fight Margarito again, as well as Williams, losing both. There would be big wins over Alfredo Angulo and a draw with Sergio Martinez, but the right hand was rarely the potent weapon it was when he earned the nickname “Killer.”
“My hand was never the same since that fight (against Feliciano),” he said. “I avoided the surgery, and I honestly finished it off with the Ronald Cruz fight. I knew I couldn’t continue my career unless I had the surgery I needed.” [Click Here To Read More]
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