The Cintron – Angulo fight
May 24th, 2009
By Sam Gregory: On May 30th at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida former welterweight contender Kermit Cintron will make yet another attempt to set himself a place back in the rankings by taking on undefeated Jr middleweight challenger Alfredo Angulo.
Angulo is considered to be a crowd pleasing rising star by the Mexican fans that have followed him since the stellar amateur career of the former Olympian.
The odds makers consider Cintron to be the more experienced fighter with a professional record of 30 wins and 2 losses including a very controversial draw in the fight against Sergio Martinez last February.
Kermit Cintron started boxing when he was 19 years old; in his brief amateur career he compiled a record of 24-3. Cintron’s main sport in high school and while he attended Thaddeus Stevens Collage of Technology was wrestling.
Alfredo Angulo started boxing at the age of 17 and won a bronze medal in the welterweight division in 2003 at the Pan American games in Santo Domingo. The 26 year old Angulo, who currently has a professional record of 15 wins with no losses, 12 wins by way of KO, proclaims himself to be a “very aggressive fighter that throws a lot of punches”. But as he said, “I do so with my ring intelligence. I fight like my nickname of El Perro, which means dog. I am a terrier in the ring. I’d say my best punch is my right hand.”
I personally think the odds makers or anyone who sells Angulo short on experience are overlooking a well crafted experienced fighter. As for his work and personal friendship with Margarito, Angulo says, “I look up to Antonio Margarito, we are pretty good friends today. I have sparred with him a lot. He calls me when he needs good work.”
Along with his work with Margarito, he has worked with Ricky Hatton prior to his fight with Jose Luis Castillo. He’s also sparred with Roy Jones Jr, Carlos Baldomir and Fernando Vargas.
I know Cintron is a “Banger” and loves to brawl toe to toe and the fighters to give him the most problems were the ones who could take his punches. Regardless of what the odds makers say, I don’t think Alfredo Angulo will have a problem taking Cintron’s punches; provided Cintron can land them.
Both these styles will make for an action packed fight. Angulo may be somewhat slow but he is very strong and brings a tenacious body attack to the equation. He stopped all 11 of his last opponents, all but one in five rounds or less.
Cintron is no slouch sporting a 90 percent KO ratio. He’s always had an explosive right hand when he fought at 147 pounds but as I said, the ones that gave him trouble were the ones who could take that punch.
If Angulo can take what Cintron throws at him the fight isn’t expected to make it to the championship rounds. The over/under for this fight is 8 ½ rounds; after the seventh round, if it goes that far, I wouldn’t take my eye off the TV screen.
Look for Angulo to improve his unbeaten streak to 16-0 with 13 KO’s.
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agree that angulo gets hit a lot, is slow, and has been rocked before. nontheless, i still see angulo as the victor. i just hope cintron doesn’t start whining and crying to the ref once things don’t seem to go his way like it was w/martinez and margarito…..
I say Cintron wins by KO as Angulo gets hit over and over by Cintron’s bombs and finally realizes he’s not Margarito. Make “NO” mistake about it…Angulo is NOT Margarito! He get’s hit a lot and is slower than Margarito. He’s never been hit by someone with Cintron’s power and if he thinks he has Margarito’s chin…forget about it. He’s been hit, rocked and all of that by …fighters who don’t have Cintron’s power. Unlike the Cintron Margarito fights…this one ends by KO with Cintron’s arms raised. Finally, everyone will see that Cintron is a champion and only has “match-up” problems with Margarito. EVERYONE else he has beat or tied. EVERYONE ELSE! Angulo will be added to the list of the 27, soon to be 28, fighters who Cintron has KO’d! Cintron by KO round 7…maybe 6!
i say angulo wins by ko cintron gets discouraged by a guy who can take his big right hand he seems to just give up.Is say if cintron wants to give himself a chance he needs to man up rather than be a big baby and cry about why isnt he hurting angulo.