By Dan Ambrose: If you look at how former International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (33-5-1, 28 KO’s) performed tonight in getting stopped by World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) by a 5th round TKO, it’s difficult to make a case for Cintron continuing his career.
Cintron really needs to consider hanging up the gloves and retiring from boxing. Cintron is 32 now, and has lost three out of his last four fights. If you count Cintron’s 12 round draw with Sergio Martinez as a loss, which is what it should be considering the blown call by the referee after Cintron was dropped by Martinez, Cintron has lost four out of his last seven fights. That’s not good.
If he’s okay with that then I would say for him to continue fighting, but if he wants to be a factor at junior middleweight or welterweight, I just don’t see that happening at this point in his career.
Cintron looked terrible tonight against Alvarez, taking shots to the head and body and not throwing much back aside from jabs and occasional power shots that were mostly blocked. He did throw more punches than he had in some of his recent fights but he still looked like a shot fighter. If I was manager, I’d advise him to move back down to welterweight and give it one more try at that weight.
He doesn’t have big power at junior middleweight and needs to maximize his advantages. His power is really his main asset and at 154, he’s only an average puncher. Maybe if he moves down to welterweight and works on increasing his punch output maybe he can pick off some of the weak fighters at that weight. But I don’t, because he seemed to go out so easily tonight. I think he might have problems if he’s matched against a halfway decent welterweight and end up getting stopped again.
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