By Allen Fox: I don’t like the way that former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (33-4-1, 28 KO’s) looked at Friday’s weigh-in with WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 28 KO’s) for tonight’s fight at the Monumental Plaza de Toros in Mexico City, Mexico. Cintron looks already defeated even before the fight has started. He just doesn’t look energized and up for facing the young Alvarez for some reason.
Cintron, 32, looked scared and disengaged from the process. Compared to past weigh-ins where Cintron was fierce looking, he looked frightened. Cintron is an underdog in this fight and has lost two of his last three fights.
The way that he looked on Friday, you have to wonder whether he’ll do something strange like getting froggy and leaping out of the ring or hitting the deck after being punched and complaining it was from a head butt. I’m sure Cintron is going to try but I think he may quit mentally if things don’t go his way in the early rounds, and they probably won’t judging by how bad Cintron has looked in his last three fights.
The last time Cintron really shined was two years ago when he defeated 2nd tier fighter Juliano Ramos by a 5th round stoppage. After that fight, Cintron flew out of the ring in the 4th round against Paul Williams and injured his shoulder during the fall in a fight in May 2010.
In his next fight, Cintron lost to Carlos Molina by a 10 round decision. And most recently, Cintron looked terrible in beating fringe welterweight contender Antwone Smith by a 10 round decision in August 2011. I had Cintron losing that fight as well, but the judges liked his harder shots.
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