Alfredo Angulo to see eye doctor on Monday

By Boxing News - 06/09/2013 - Comments

angulo78By Allan Fox: Junior middleweight Alfredo Angulo (22-3, 18 KO’s) was checked out at Harbor UCLA Medical Center after his 10th round TKO loss to Erislandy Lara (18-1-2, 12 KO’s) last night to have his injured left eye examined. According to USA Today, the medical staff found no signs of a fractured orbital bone.

However, there weren’t any X-rays or an MRI done on Angulo’s head. Angulo’s co-manager Michael Miller reportedly isn’t happy that Angulo wasn’t checked out with an X-ray or MRI, and he wants to have Angulo see an ophthalmologist this Monday to have him look at Angulo’s left eye.

Miller told usatoday.com “The plastic surgeon at ringside said he thought that not only was it broken, he thought it might be shattered in pieces. What happened to him at UCLA seems to be just a big waste of time. Nobody really checked him out.”

Angulo had taken control over the fight with Lara going into the 10th round. Angulo had knocked Lara down in the 9th round and he looked like he was going to either stop him in the next three rounds or continue to punish him to win a decision. However, in the 10th round, Lara hit Angulo with a hard left hand on his injured eye and this caused Angulo to turn his back and walk away from the Lara. To the referee it looked like Angulo was quitting, and he immediately halted the fight.

Angulo claimed that he wasn’t quitting at the time, according to USA Today. He wanted to tell his trainer Virgil Hunter that he had been thumbed. Why Angulo chose to do this in the middle of the round is unclear. Angulo should have put one of his gloves over his injured eye to show the referee that he had been thumbed because walking away with his arms down by his sides made it look like Angulo was quitting.

At the time of the stoppage, Angulo was trailing by the scores 85-84, 85-84 on two of the judges’ scorecards and the other judge had it 86-83 for Angulo.



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