Salido: I’m going to prove my win over Lopez wasn’t a fluke
January 18th, 2012
By Dan Ambrose: WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido (37-11-2, 25 KO’s) will be looking to repeat his knockout effort of a year ago against then WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (31-1, 28 KO’s) by knocking him out a second time in their fight on March 10th at the Caliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Like in a lot of Lopez’s fights, he looked good for the first four rounds against Salido. However, Salido was making Lopez fight a lot harder than he wanted to by putting steady pressure on him and nailing him with right hands. In the 5th, Salido landed a series of really hard right hands that seemed to shake Lopez up.
In the next round, Salido rocked Lopez with a tremendous right hand and then nailed him again with it. You could see how badly Lopez was hurt from those shots after the round, because he looked like he wasn’t all there. Lopez fought the 7th on nothing but pure courage because he had nothing left. He was still hurt and looked gassed out as well.
He landed some big shots to the head of Salido in that round, but his punches had no affect on Salido and wasn’t slowing him down any. That was the whole problem right there. Salido just wouldn’t stop coming and he was having a lot of success with his right hand. Lopez normally is able to stop his opponents early with his right hook and left hand, but not with Salido. He took those shots and kept nailing Lopez with looping right hands. That’s the best way to beat a southpaw and it was working in this case incredibly well.
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Lopez will get ko’d without the ref stopping and saving him this time. The only real losses for Salido r against JMMarquez, Barrera and Gamboa, a long time ago.
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even if lopez wins,lets not forget it’s against a guy with eleven losses,i think lopez is overrated,he has only a strong punch,thats it…his stamina is terrible,he really has no boxing skills,his defense is awful,i don”t see him beating top guys,i think mikey garcia can ko him if they ever meet and gamboa would ko him in 2 rounds,i think juanma is way overrated,even if he does win the rematch
@ G.I… You ricans like tasting meat?
At least Puerto Rico has tastier chupacabra meat than Mexico!
Juanma thought that his fight agaist Marquez was the most important before he meet Gamboa. It’s all in the past he has win this fight if does not wants to ends his career. He is gaining too much weight between fights and leaving plenty of time to rest between workouts. Only a couple of months training before the fight to cut 30 pounds in a short enough time.
I hope this fight will be completly different.
If u look at the fight again u will notice Lopez was not hitting Salido w/ much. Salido completely took over the fight after only 4 rounds. I dont see how Lopez can win this. SALIDO KO 7 over Lopez.
The odds are against Orlando Salido! In fact Salido needs to knock JuanMa the f**k out! The fight is being held in JuanMa’s backyard of Puerto Rico, a hostile crowd that shows no hospitality towards Salido! Three Puerto Rican judges and a Puerto Rican referee, possibly Joe Cortez! Salido is a pressure fighter. JuanMa’s stamina failed him in their 1st encounter. It’s just a matter of time before Salido catches up to JuanMa again, and wears him out! It will be a repeat performance! For however long the fight lasts! This should be an entertaining fight!
@soycubanitooo,
Soy Puertorriqueño y estoy de acuerdo con usted.
I watched your fight with JML I know you can do it again.Saludo!
The first fight was amazing. It takes guts to go to puerto rico and fight jm lopez again. Its going to be a tought fight again salido didn’t look good in his last fight he got knockdown several times. Hopefully salido pulls it off again.
unfortunately Lopez has no stamina, plus his boxing skills are very limited. Slow hand, poor slow foot work, poor defense, and poor chin….etc….I see his future in boxing very limited too. Did very bad fighting in PR again….made a huge mistake by not hiring Miguel Diaz, Cuban trainer who prepared/trained Cotto for his last fight. Juan Manuel Lopez needs intensive rehab as a I said before.
lopez was exposed. lopez is 2nd tier.