Peter Quillin vs. Fernando Guerrero on February 9th in Brooklyn, New York

By Boxing News - 12/18/2012 - Comments

quillin33By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions has decided to match their fighter WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin (28-0, 20 KO’s) against #5 WBC Fernando Guerrero (25-1, 19 KO’s) on February 9th on the undercard of the Zab Judah vs. Danny Garcia fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Quiilin, 29, had been mentioned as facing former WBC/WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor, but that fight isn’t happening. Taylor-Quillin fight would have been a mismatch, and it’s a good thing that Golden Boy isn’t going with that, but Guerrero-Quillin is about the same.

Guerrero was knocked out by 40-year-old Grady Brewer last year in June when Guerrero tried stepping up the level of his competition. He failed miserably as you can see.

Quillin vs. Guerrero isn’t a good fight but I guess it could be worse. They could have picked someone from the bottom of the heap to face Quillin. One thing for sure is that Golden Boy isn’t in a hurry to put Quillin in with anyone with a remote possibility of beating him. He’s still really flawed and he can be out-boxed, as we saw in his last fight against Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam last October.

Quillin was able to knock D’Dam down six times in the fight, but in between those knockdowns Quillin was getting easily-boxed by N’Dam, and he looked mediocre, like a fighter that won’t last long as a champion unless he’s kept away from the good competition.

Quillin had the chance to fight a unification bout with WBA champion Gennady Golovkin but he reportedly wasn’t interested in that fight. I guess I can’t blame him because Golovkin would knock Quillin out with ease. There’s no comparison between the two fighters. Quillin is a flawed fighter, and he still doesn’t know how to fight on the inside, doesn’t jab, and is mostly just a pot shot fighter. He doesn’t throw combinations and he’s really vulnerable against guys that know how to box.

There’s not much to get excited about with Guerrero. He’s beaten guys like Saul Duran, Ishe Smith, Jessie Nicklow, Ossie Duran, but no one that you could call a good fighter out of that bunch. He tried stepping it up slightly last year and was knocked out.



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