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By Cliff Rold - The attention of most US fight fans will be where it should be on Saturday night. An all-Brooklyn showdown between two top ten middleweights, with exciting featherweight Jesus Cuellar underneath, is good action. It might be Showtime’s best show of the year.
It might not be the best fight of the week.
By night’s end, that honor may belong to this week’s main event on BeIn Sports Espanol (11 PM EST/8 PM PST). Be thankful for DVR. There’s no reason not to see both.
On BeIn, fans can look forward to a possible all-Mexican war in the Jr. flyweight division. Former unified WBO and IBF 105 lb. titlist Francisco Rodriguez Jr. (17-3-1, 11 KO) will face off with former WBO 105 lb. titlist Moises Fuentes (22-2-1, 12 KO). The winner may be in line for a crack at Ring Magazine and WBO 108 lb. titlist Donnie Nietes (37-1-4, 21 KO)…or at least any vacant belt he leaves behind if Nietes finally makes the jump to the 112 lb. ranks.
For either, it would be familiar territory. Nietes is one of boxing’s best-kept veteran secrets. Part of Nietes’ bona fides: wins over Fuentes and Rodriguez. Nietes and Rodriguez have tangled twice. In their first bout in 2013, Nietes was fought to a draw on his home turf in the Philippines. Matched again in 2014, Nietes won an outstanding fight, ending Fuentes’s hopes for a title in a second division with a ninth-round knockout. [Click Here To Read More]
It might not be the best fight of the week.
By night’s end, that honor may belong to this week’s main event on BeIn Sports Espanol (11 PM EST/8 PM PST). Be thankful for DVR. There’s no reason not to see both.
On BeIn, fans can look forward to a possible all-Mexican war in the Jr. flyweight division. Former unified WBO and IBF 105 lb. titlist Francisco Rodriguez Jr. (17-3-1, 11 KO) will face off with former WBO 105 lb. titlist Moises Fuentes (22-2-1, 12 KO). The winner may be in line for a crack at Ring Magazine and WBO 108 lb. titlist Donnie Nietes (37-1-4, 21 KO)…or at least any vacant belt he leaves behind if Nietes finally makes the jump to the 112 lb. ranks.
For either, it would be familiar territory. Nietes is one of boxing’s best-kept veteran secrets. Part of Nietes’ bona fides: wins over Fuentes and Rodriguez. Nietes and Rodriguez have tangled twice. In their first bout in 2013, Nietes was fought to a draw on his home turf in the Philippines. Matched again in 2014, Nietes won an outstanding fight, ending Fuentes’s hopes for a title in a second division with a ninth-round knockout. [Click Here To Read More]
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