Salido: I’m going to prove my win over Lopez wasn’t a fluke

By Boxing News - 01/18/2012 - Comments

Image: Salido: I'm going to prove my win over Lopez wasn't a flukeBy Dan Ambrose: WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido (37-11-2, 25 KO’s) will be looking to repeat his knockout effort of a year ago against then WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (31-1, 28 KO’s) by knocking him out a second time in their fight on March 10th at the Caliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Salido said “He is going to feel he is the better and stronger man and that he is not. I want to show that my first win was not a fluke.”

Like in a lot of Lopez’s fights, he looked good for the first four rounds against Salido. However, Salido was making Lopez fight a lot harder than he wanted to by putting steady pressure on him and nailing him with right hands. In the 5th, Salido landed a series of really hard right hands that seemed to shake Lopez up.

In the next round, Salido rocked Lopez with a tremendous right hand and then nailed him again with it. You could see how badly Lopez was hurt from those shots after the round, because he looked like he wasn’t all there. Lopez fought the 7th on nothing but pure courage because he had nothing left. He was still hurt and looked gassed out as well.

He landed some big shots to the head of Salido in that round, but his punches had no affect on Salido and wasn’t slowing him down any. That was the whole problem right there. Salido just wouldn’t stop coming and he was having a lot of success with his right hand. Lopez normally is able to stop his opponents early with his right hook and left hand, but not with Salido. He took those shots and kept nailing Lopez with looping right hands. That’s the best way to beat a southpaw and it was working in this case incredibly well.



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