Giovani Segura-Ivan Calderon: Pre-Rematch Report Card
He’s younger. He’s bigger. He hits harder. He’s fighting in his home country. He already won by knockout on his opponent’s national turf.
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Photos/Weights: Giovani Segura 108, Ivan Calderon 107
The weights are in for Saturday's big rematch. Iván “Iron Boy” Calderón and WBO junior flyweight champion Giovani Segura made weight for their fight at the Auditorio del Estado in Mexicali, Baja California. Calderon (34-1-1, 6KOs) came in at 107-pounds, while Segura (26-1-1, 22KOs) was 108-pounds. Segura stopped Calderon last August. Photos by Joel Colon/PRBBP
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Rematches: Twice Is Nice Except When It Ain’t
By Cliff Rold - We remember the remarkable rematch turnarounds. Evander Holyfield made technical adjustments, and got his wind up thanks to one “Fan Man,” and got past Riddick Bowe the second time around. Rocky Graziano snared the Middleweight title when Tony Zale made the fateful decision to give him a second crack at it. Joe Louis nuked Max Schmeling before the Manhattan Project changed the world. We remember the nights when special fighters seized legendary moments, quenching the blood thirst of revenge. And why wouldn’t we? Those nights are not that common. Most of the time it seems, and if memory serves it’s been quantified somewhere, rematches go the way of the first fight, if shorter. It makes sense, especially when first fights end by knockout. As the pressure increases, as the heat rises in the ring, the man who won the first time around knows he can finish. The previously vanquished hopes he can but draws only on the knowledge of failure. Failure in boxing isn’t like failure elsewhere. Former Straweight and, more recently, World Jr. Flyweight Champion Ivan Calderon (34-1-1, 6 KO) of Puerto Rico felt the bruises, the aches, probably had trouble with a deep breath or two, after he found out last August. In the BoxingScene and Ring Magazine Fight of the Year for 2010, Calderon gave everything he had. It wasn’t enough. The heavy hands, relentless pressure, and focused body assault of Mexico’s Giovanni Segura (26-1-1, 22 KO) was too much. The end came in the eighth round, Calderon forced to his knees by the strength of a man just shy of seven years younger. Segura, already the WBA titlist, added Calderon's lineal, Ring, and WBO honors.
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Photos: Ivan Calderon-Giovani Segura Final Presser
World Champion, Giovani "The Aztec Warrior" Segura and two-time world champion Ivan "Iron Boy" Calderon, met for the first time in Mexicali during the final press conference leading up to their rematch this Saturday in the Auditorio Estatal in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. PHOTO CREDIT: German Villasenor/Team Segura.
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Giovani Segura: 100% Mexican Fighter Looks To Repeat
By Thomas Gerbasi - There are fighters who can knock you out, boxers who can dazzle and frustrate you with speed. Then there are guys like Giovani Segura, hunters who will stalk you and stalk you and make your life miserable until he finally breaks you down, not only physically, but mentally. It’s a gift, one that has earned Segura two world titles at 108 pounds, and as he approaches Saturday’s highly-anticipated rematch with the man he knocked out in a 2010 Fight of the Year candidate, Ivan Calderon, he is firmly in the camp of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ And that’s not a surprise considering that he learned the art of fighting long before he put on the gloves and picked up the sweet science of boxing. “I started training late, and the little thing that I knew about boxing was what I would see in Mexico on TV,” recalled the native of Ciudad Altamirano. “I grew up in a tough neighborhood, and at the playground playing soccer you always had fist fights. So for me, coming into a ring with gloves and headgear and all this protection was new for me and I didn’t have no fear. It was crazy because I would see guys get nervous about sparring, and I would tell them that I used to do it without nothing. So I saw things different.” Those early scraps built his toughness. His boxing brain was more advanced than most as well, and again, it was done back home with no gloves, no headgear, and no trainers.
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Photos: Ivan Calderon open workout in Mexicali for Segura
Former WBO 105 and 108 World Champion Iván “Iron Boy” Calderón trained today for the people of Mexicali, three days before his rematch against WBO Junior Flyweight Champion Giovani Segura to be held this Saturday, April 2nd, at the Auditorio del Estado in Mexicali, Baja California, México, in a PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP) and Promociones Zanfer presentation to be televised on Pay Per View.
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Photos: Calderon Takes a Break, Visits The Mexicali Mayor
Iván “Iron Boy” Calderón takes a break from his training to visit the mayor of Mexicali. This Saturday, Calderon faces WBO junior flyweight champion Giovani Segura in a rematch, which takes place at the Auditorio del Estado in Mexicali, Baja California. Calderon (34-1-1, 6KOs) wants to avenge the only loss his career, which came to Segura (26-1-1, 22KOs) last August by knockout.
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Photos: Ivan Calderon Training Hard in Mexicali For Segura
Iván “Iron Boy” Calderón is training hard for the rematch with WBO junior flyweight champion Giovani Segura, which takes place at the Auditorio del Estado in Mexicali, Baja California on April 2. Calderon (34-1-1, 6KOs) wants to avenge the only loss his career, which came to Segura (26-1-1, 22KOs) last August by knockout.
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Photos: Ivan Calderon Hits Mexicali For Segura Bout
Former two time champion Ivan "Iron Boy" Calderon arrived to Mexicalim,Baja California, Mexico, where this Saturday, April 2, he is going to face WBO Junior Flyweight king Giovani Segura at tha Auditorio del Estado in Mexicali in a presentation of PR Best Boxing Promotions and Promociones Zanfer to be televised by Pay Per View.
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Ivan Calderon: Puerto Rico's 'Iron Boy' is Not Done Yet
By Thomas Gerbasi - After 34 wins and no losses, and a reign as champion over two divisions for over seven years, Ivan Calderon shouldn’t have been surprised by the reception he got in his native Puerto Rico after he finally suffered the first defeat of his career against Giovani Segura last August. “Everybody in the streets still tells me ‘you’re still our champ, you gave your best for us,’ and ‘you lost to another champ. You didn’t lose to a nobody,’” recalled Calderon. “They said ‘You got your loss, but it was the best fight you did in all your fights.’” He chuckles. “I always wanted to have that Fight of the Year, but I didn’t imagine that I was gonna have the Fight of the Year in my loss.” Some figured he wasn’t going to lose. He was that good for that long, coming out of the 2000 Olympics and turning into perhaps the best defensive boxer we’ve seen since Pernell Whitaker. For purists, there was nothing better than an Ivan Calderon fight, and even as he approached his mid-30’s (a danger zone for fighters in the lighter weight classes), his two fight series with Hugo Cazares proved that he still had it. Then came Segura, a Mexican bull with the type of pressure that not only busts pipes, but tears the whole house down in the process. In their August bout in Guaynabo for the WBO and WBA junior flyweight titles, Segura and Calderon went to war in a Fight of the Year candidate that probably would have clinched the honor if it were contested above 135 pounds. But regardless, the two 108 pounders delivered the kind of effort you want to see in all championship bouts, and the contrasting styles added even more drama to the proceedings.
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