Cintron Defeats Angulo In Questionable Decision
June 1st, 2009
By Manuel Perez: Kermit Cintron (31-2-1, 27 KO’s) pulled off a tremendous upset against previously unbeaten number #1 ranked light middleweight Alfredo Angulo in a 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Hollywood, Florida. Despite winning the fight and landing the weaker punches for 12 rounds, Cintron only landed fifty more punches than Angulo.
After the bout, Angulo rushed out of the ring without being interviewed by anyone. I can’t blame him for leaving quickly, because he should be pissed for not getting the decision. He should have. I think Cintron did a much better job than I expected him to, because I figured he would knocked out by Angulo given Cintron’s two losses to the Angulo clone Antonio Margarito.
However, Cintron fought entirely different against Angulo than he did in his two fights with Margarito. Instead of trying to mix it up with Angulo, Cintron jabbed frequently, and used a lot of movement. It saved him from getting mowed down by Angulo but it wasn’t enough for Cintron to win the fight.
Believe me, Cintron lost the fight on Saturday night. When two fighters throw about the same amount of punches, you have to reward the fighter that’s landing the harder shots in the fight. In this case, it was Angulo in all 12 rounds. Cintron landed some hard shots at times, but he fought too often on the move and this took a lot of power out of his shots.
Cintron jabbed and moved in the opening round, not staying in front of Angulo for a second. Cintron was doing well until the last minute of the round when Angulo began pressuring him, and hitting him with big right hands one after another until the end of the round.
The second round was a repeat of the first. Cintron fought well in the first two minutes of the round throwing jabs mostly, but in the last minute Cintron stopped punching and began to get really hammered by Angulo with combinations. In the 3rd and 4th rounds, Cintron came back to win the rounds by landing hard right hands to the head.
Angulo appeared to be hurt by a couple of right hands in the 4th. He recovered immediately and fought well for the rest of the round, however. In the 5th round, Cintron landed well in the first half of the rounds, but in the 2nd part of the round Angulo began to land some really heave shots and had Cintron literally running for his life.
Cintron jabbed and moved well in the 6th, hitting Angulo often and avoiding his big shots. In rounds seven through nine, Angulo dominated the action with his heavy pressure and big power shots. Cintron looked tired, worried and was unable to get away from Angulo no matter how much running he did.
Cintron came back in the 10th to win the round with his jabbing. He moved just enough to prevent Angulo from cutting off the ring and trapping him. However, in the last two rounds, Angulo stalked Cintron all around the ring, blasting away at him with huge power shots.
There was no way that you Cintron could have won either of these rounds because he was really getting hammered and mostly just jabbing in response to big shots he was forced to eat.
After the fight, Cintron said “I feel great at both weights [welterweight and light middleweight]. I still feel I can become world champion at 147, but I definitely feel at 154 I can be a world champion too.”
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Well said Torbero! I also notice that in allot of fights the commentators can effect your judgment towards the outcome of the fight!
In most cases the commentators will favor one boxer over the other and they always make sure to talk about there favored boxer’s highlights.
When the other boxer is bringing the heat for some reason he gets overlooked. They’ll talk about something else or act like nothing is going on, until it is just to obvious and they just say something like our boxer is taking it easy for this round or something stupid like that!
For some reason the favored boxer will get more replays of there high-lites even when they lost the round!
I Thought Angulo had won a close fight. Not that it matters Cintron took the win. there’s nothing we can do to change the judges opinion. Its done, lets move on and lets hope the next fight will have a better outcome than this one!
I am a boxing fan and follow many boxers because of their abilities and not their nationality. However, this fight was much closer than it was scored… it could have been easily called a draw or a very close win for either one. However, the judges saw it for Cintron and that is the official result.
My theory on why so many fights get called so differently than many of us see them is the seating location of the judges. They don’t have the benefit of the cameras that follow the boxers from all angles and sometimes they see clear punches where they may have been blocked or missed. We also have the benefit of the replay on tv which is something they don’t have.
I believe judges do miss on some fights, but they do their best based on how they actually see the fight from their respective seats. Not a perfect system, but it has been accepted for many years.
Cintron should call out Paul Williams. That would be a good fight.
sorry Jason i wasnt addressing anyone who made comments here in my first comment.I was addressing Manuel Perez as he is constantly writing article upon article bashing anyone who beats a mexican fighter saying that they shouldnt have won etc. Just look at the archives on this website and you’ll
see that this site is over run with articles every few days taking cheap shots at Paquiao who beat his idol Marquez.Talk about obsessed, he just wont let it go.and for the record im not a fan of either cintron or angulo and i could see that cintron won the fight.He used his head and outworked ngulo early to get a good lead and despite tiring in the latter part of the fight he more than held his own and won a couple of rounds.Even angulo had a downbeat face after the fight and didnt act like he won and when the scores were read out he nodded in acceptance.His corner had told him he was behind and needed a knockout to win before the final round.
unbiasedperson I just want to say I can care less what race or nationallity Angulo and Cintron are! I’m not even latin to begin with, If I was I still would not favor the boxer because he was born were I am from.
Its Obvios that some of the Cintron fans do care! With the remarks they have posted “Another Mexican boxer got his azz whooped!”
I’m not a fan to either of these fighters anyway! But I’m a fan of boxing so I see it as much as possible! Its the biggest sport here In las Vegas.
Like I said I still beleave Angulo was robbed from at least a draw!
Cintron won the fight. Where 8-4 Angulo has come from i dont know. Angulo is far too slow for junior middleweight. Another mexican fighter to get whooped this month (Jhonny Gonzalez) you just cant take it Manny Perez
Nah,I disagree!! Cintron won the fight,he landed the more and effective punches and waz completly outboxing Angulo,Kermit Cintron beat Alfredo Angulo,point blank!!
You remember that poster of obama and mcain where mcain was black and obama was white . It was a clever way of making people think of the policies the two where standing for rather than the colour of their skin. Maybe they should make one of kermit cintron as a mexican and angulo as a puerto rican so you can get past the nationality and see that cintron won.I doubt you will though because you are completely blind towards the efforts of the fighters who beat your mexican heroes.Get over it.Boxers win and lose.When my favourite fighters lose im upset but not obsessed.I dont detriment the other fighters effort for beating my heroes like you clearly have done here.Even Angulos corner told him he was losing by a margin of four rounds and that he would have to knock out cintron to win. Cintron fought a smart fight and it was only until the second half of the fight when angulo even attempted to go to the body and by then he was already losing five rounds to one.
To say any of these Boxers clearly won. your either a buy-est or you don’t know much about boxing!
Obviously there were mixed emotions about Cintron winning this fight! There were even some boos when Cintron was announced the winner, and Florida is like a second home for Cintron!
I have to say this fight was very close and if there had to be a winner it should have been given to Angulo!
You had Angulo winning the fight 8 rounds to 4? That says it all. You don’t know boxing. Cintron “easily” won this fight and you, and anyone else who thought the fight was even close must be smoking crack. The 116-112 unanimous decision as seen by the ringside judges was fair. If anything…you could argue for Cintron winning 9 rounds but since I wasn’t sitting at the ring like the judges were…I’ll go with their take. As for your comments, I have to seriously question ANYTHING you have to share on boxing. You are so “OFF” on this one that I have to now wonder if you know anything at all about this sport?? Do you???
I understand Everyone has there opinions and I respect that! But I also think this fight was much closer then what the judges scored it at. In fact after seeing the fight again I do believe Angulo was at least robbed out of a Draw!
We can’t just act like Angulo was just taking hits. He was also connecting hits and they were much harder hits!
Everyone is entitled to there own opinion but don’t believe the hype, give recognition to each boxers efforts, and give credit when deserved!
You must be the only person who though Anuglo actually won this fight!
Even I scored it 116-112 for Cintron.
what I would like to know is were do these stupid judgess come from? you see it time and time again some one getting robbed. Just like the Hopkins vs Jones Jr. fight or the Mosley vs Delahoya rematch. Dawson vs Johnson and espeacially Pacqiou vs Marquez and many others!
Its just fustrates the hell out of me.
“Cintron clearly won” come on now lets get realistic. Cintron did not win the fight! Nor did Angulo this fight was dead even! Sure Cintron connected a few more hits but the crisp and harder punches were deliverd from Angulo plus he never let up! He stayed busy threw out the fight!
Well Cintron was abel to pull a B.S draw last time he fought I guess you can get lucky two times in a row. The question is will he be abel to pull a third one if needed?
I’m a Cintron Fan and i knew he would win! In fact I was so certain he was going to win I actualy placed a few bets for him with a few friends I work with. All I got to say is that I feel really lucky!
I honestly thought Cintron lost and I was wondering how i was going to come up with my rent payment! I was just glued to the TV praying that Cintron would pull this Victory? Thank God the Judges gave this fight to Cintron!
Man, you gotta be kidding. Cintron won the fight fair and square. The unanimous 116-112 was about right.
Another Mexican boxer got his azz whooped.Cintron whooped Angulo’s azz.Poor poor Manuel Perez.Your boys are gettin their buts kicked every weekend.
cintron clearly won the the fight, though i was strongly cheering for angulo. give props where merited.
Cintron clearly won the fight and Angulo knew it, even shaking his head in acknowledgment when the decision was read. Angulo did not even bother acting like he won, which most fighters do after a fight. Cintron stood on the ropes while Angulo just walked to his corner. Angulo is a pressure fighter, but he was not able to cut off the ring against Cintron, allowing Cintron to move around the ring. Cintron’s Trainer, Ronnie Shields had a great strategy to battle Angulo. Angulo needs to go back to the drawing board.