By Jim Dower: Former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KO’s) wants no part of a third fight against Antonio Margarito, who Cintron has already been stopped by in the five years. It was thought that with WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio Martinez vacating his title, Margarito, ranked #2 and Cintron, ranked #3, would face off for the vacant WBC belt. However, according to Readingeagle.com, Cintron has no interest in fighting Margarito yet again. Cintron, speaking about Margarito’s team, said “They can kiss my a–.”
You can speculate why Cintron isn’t interesting in fighting Margarito again. It could be that he doesn’t trust him after Margarito was found with a plaster-like substance on his hand wraps before his fight against Shane Mosley last year or it could be that Cintron feels that he just can’t beat him. He did, after all, get stopped twice by him in the past.
It didn’t seem like a good idea to fight him for a second time last time out, yet Cintron went ahead and fought Margarito anyway and got stopped again. It may be that Margarito just has Cintron’s number. However, Cintron does have a number of different options available to him other than Margarito. He could go after a rematch against Sergio Martinez, who he fought to a controversial draw against last year or he could go after a rematch against Paul Williams, who recently defeated Cintron by a strange 4 round technical decision after Cintron fell out of the ring. Cintron could also fight a rematch against Alfredo Angulo, who Cintron defeated last year.
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