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Surprised Karlos choose To be trained by McGirt but don’t think he had many other choices at least in the SoCal area. The kid burned a lot of bridges early in his career. Heard both Robert Garcia and Manny Robles wanted no part of him and Reynoso has Ryan under his tutelage, so that wasn’t gonna happen. Anyhow, Karlos appears a whole lot more humble after that KO loss to Giron. Anyone see this kid turning the corner in his career and becoming a legit contender @ 135 lbs or is he destine to be another journeyman?
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Who knows but the kid and his team were a bunch of idiots talking all that shít about DLH and Golden Boy so early in his career. -
He needs to scrap everyone in his circle and start from scratch. Good first step getting Buddy but you are right he was young and dumb and burned bridges so he might have no other options. It's crazy but he was a can't miss prospect. You have a deep class of USA fighters all turning pro in 2016 and other then Shakur Stevenson nobody had more buzz and upside then Karlos. Olympian got to the medal round, beat Teofimo Lopez to kick him off the USA team. Every top promoter was calling. His mistake was signing with a upstart Promoter. The other fighters like Ryan Garcia, Shakur, Teofimo Lopez, Vergil Ortiz signed with major promoters got fights, exposure and were developed. Balderas got none of that then his promoter got him killed viciously knocked out basically twice in 1 fight.Comment
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Gonna hold off on judging Balderas. Although he can't just turn a shoulder and let a pressure guy walk onto him and fire off. He got absolutely lit up by left hooks
Anyway, I think Giron showed that maybe has something going for himself as well- maybe Balderas just met his match early on in his career. Giron was only 21, he wasn't a beat up brawler or anything like that, only 1 loss, it was basically prime v prime. Kind of an underrated matchup in that way ...he was a son of a ***** that fight.Last edited by LA_2_Vegas; 08-07-2020, 07:51 PM.Comment
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