Hugo Fidel Cazares

Frampton to face Santa Cruz after impressive KO of Cazares

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frampton33By Simon Allen: Tonight at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast Northern Ireland Carl Frampton fought Hugo Fidel Cazares in a WBC super bantamweight title eliminator. The winner highly likely to go on to face WBC champion Leo Santa Cruz.

Frampton 17/0/0 (12), headed into the fight as a heavy favourite in front of his home town crowd. Frampton and his manager Barry McGuigan had both made much of the show Carl was going to put on against the rugged Mexican. Insisting the fight was going to be explosive and that Carl would knock the challenger out.

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Frampton defeats Cazares

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frampton34By Scott Gilfoid: As I expected, Carl Frampton (18-0, 13 KO’s) defeated 35-year-old Hugo Fidel Cazares (40-8-2, 27 KO’s) in a disappointing 2nd round TKO on Friday night in their WBC super bantamweight title eliminator bout at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Frampton knocked down the past his prime Cazares with a left hook to the head that put him down on one knee. Cazares, who is from Mexico, seemed to lose track of the count and was counted out. Cazares was grinning at the time, and seemed to think he had time to get up to beat the count. It looked like Cazares couldn’t understand the count that was being given by the Scottish referee Victor Loughlin. It could be that his accent was too thick and that made it difficult for Cazares to understand the numbers that were being called out by the referee.

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Carl Frampton faces Cazares tonight to get Santa Cruz title shot

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frampton466By Scott Gilfoid: #2 WBC Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s) has an important WBC 122lb eliminator bout tonight against #1 WBC Hugo Fidel Cazares (40-7-2, 27 KO’s) at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Frampton, 27, needs to win this fight to become the mandatory challenger to WBC super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz. Frampton has a decent chance of beating the 35-year-old Cazares, because this is an older fighter who is fighting a two divisions above his best weight class.

Cazares is also someone who has been given a very, very generous No.1 ranking by the World Boxing Council. While I think Cazares is a halfway decent super bantamweight, I don’t for a second see him as a top 15 contender, and certainly not a No.1 contender like the WBC has him ranked.

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Frampton will prove he’s world class against Cazares, says Hatton

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frampton88By Scott Gilfoid: When some boxing fans take a look at the little 5’5” Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s), they see a guy who lacks the major power and skills to hang with the best fighters in the super bantamweight division like WBC champion Leo Santa Cruz and WBA/WBO champion Guillermo Rigondeaux. Indeed, it’s hard to look at any of Frampton’s fights and see him being able to compete with either of those talents, but former two division world champion Ricky Hatton believes that Frampton has world class skills of the highest type.

Hatton thinks that Frampton will prove that this Friday night when he faces 35-year-old Hugo Fidel Cazares (40-7-2, 27 KO’s) in a WBC 122lb eliminator bout at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Carl Frampton vs. Hugo Cazares this Friday, April 4th in Belfast, Northern Ireland

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frampton3By Scott Gilfoid: #2 WBC Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s) will be fighting Hugo Cazares (40-7-2, 27 KO’s) in a WBC super bantamweight title final eliminator bout Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Frampton, 27, says he expects this fight to be a war, although I have my doubts that it’ll play out this way. Frampton is one of those type of fighters who is good at overpowering weak punchers with less power than him, but when he faces guys with more punching power than him, like in his fights against Kiko Martinez and Raul Hirales, he gets on his bike and moves the entire time.

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Carl Frampton to face Hugo Fidel Cazares on 4/4

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frampton88By Scott Gilfoid: #2 WBC, Carl Frampton (17-0, 12 KO’s) will be facing #1 WBC, Hugo Fidel Cazares (40-7-2, 27 KO’s) in a fight on April 4th at the Odyssey Arena, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The fight will be staged in Frampton’s home country, even though Cazares is ranked above him at #1. If I were Cazares, I’d have preferred the fight be staged on neutral turf, because the last thing he needs is stuck on the losing end of a controversial decision. I mean, I doubt Frampton will bother giving Cazares a rematch if it’s a controversial decision, and that would leave the 35-year-old Cazares high and dry.

Frampton, 26, is hoping that a win over the former two-division world champion Cazares will put him in position to face WBC super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz in the 2nd half of 2014. I suspect Frampton will get his fight against Santa Cruz this year, but I don’t see it going well for Frampton. Santa Cruz is too powerful, too relentless and too talented for him.

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Calderon vs. Cazares: No More Rematches, Please

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calderon43312.jpgBy Jim Dower: Last Saturday night, World Boxing Organization light flyweight champion Ivan Calderon (32-0, 6 KOs) once again defeated knockout artist Hugo Fidel Cazares (26-5-1, 19 KOs), this time by a 7th round technical decision after Calderon, 33, received a deep cut on the center of his forehead after clashing heads with Cazares. The fight was officially stopped at 1:58 of the seventh, with blood gushing from the cut on Calderon’s forehead, making it unlikely that they could stop the flow of blood if the fight were to have been allowed to continue. The bout then went to the scorecards, with Calderon winning by the scores of 67-66, 68-65 and 68-65.

I had Calderon winning every round except for the 6th. However, afterwards Calderon, obviously not satisfied with the manner in which the fight ended, spoke of a third match between him and Cazares as if this fight was tainted somehow. That’s admirable of Calderon to do this, because most boxers wouldn’t be willing to give an opponent a second shot, especially if the fight was in anyway close. This fight wasn’t close, though, as Calderon appeared to have dominated 90% if the fight up until the time of the stoppage, and it didn’t appear to be any question in most people’s minds whom the better fighter was between Calderon and Cazares, at least not from what I saw of the fight.

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Ivan Calderon vs. Hugo Fidel Cazares This Saturday

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calderon3535353.jpgBy Manuel Perez: Undefeated World Boxing Organization light flyweight Ivan Calderon (31-0, 6 KOs) fights a rematch with former WBO light flyweight champion Hugo Fidel Cazares (26-4-1, 19 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round bout on Saturday night at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The two have unfinished business after the 33 year-old Calderon won a controversial 12-round split decision over Cazares last August in Puerto Rico, despite Cazares knocking Calderon down in the 8th round and appearing to win the last six rounds of the fight. The final judges’ scores were a mixed bunch, with one judge ruling it a 116-111 victory for Cazares and the other two giving Calderon the nod by the scores of 115-112 and 115-112, each.

I personally had Cazares, 30 winning by a narrow margin over Calderon. I thought Calderon did a good job in the first six rounds, moving around the ring like a Gazelle, stopping occasionally to land a quick counter-punch, and then continuing with his constant movement. He looked good in those rounds, and made the bigger Cazares miss often with his big shots.

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