Weights: Orlando Salido 130, Terdsak Kokietgym 130

By Boxing News - 09/19/2014 - Comments

salido4534By Dan Ambrose: Former IBF/WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido (41-12-2, 28 KOs) successfully made weight on Friday in weighing in at 130 pounds for the interim WBO super featherweight title against 33-year-old former world title challenger Terdsak Kokietgym (53-4-1, 33 KOs) on Saturday night at the Auditorio Municipal Fausto Gutiérrez Moreno, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

#2 WBO Kokietgym also weighed in at 130 pounds for the fight. #1 WBO Salido is trying to get in position to fight a rematch against WBO super featherweight champion Mikey Garcia, who beat him by an 8th round technical decision last year in January in a fight in which Salido looked to be taking control of at the time that Mikey bowed out of the fight with a broken nose in the 8th.

Salido also was fighting with a broken nose, and he didn’t understand why Mikey wanted to quit because of a broken nose. Salido felt that Mikey was getting worried at that point in the fight because he was no longer able to hurt Salido and he was starting to take punishment in return.

Salido had been knocked down twice in the 1st and once in the 3rd and 4th round. But after the 4th, Salido started coming on and giving Mikey a great deal of problems. Mikey was allowed to put his left arm out far in front of him to push down on Salido’s head when he was attacking. The referee didn’t do a thing to stop Mikey from using this illegal tactic all during the fight.

In Salido’s last fight, he defeated Vasyl Lomachenko by a 12 round split decision earlier this year in March. Salido’s body attack had Lomachenko holding on constantly for the first 8 rounds of the fight. Lomachenko was able to rally in the last 4 rounds after Salido faded, but it was a clear win for Salido due to his earlier work. The one referee that scored it for 115-113 for Lomachenko appeared to be watching a completely different fight altogether because there wasn’t enough good Lomachenko rounds for him to have beaten Salido.

Kokietgym has only fought 4 good opponents during his entire 11-year pro career and he’s lost to all four of them in Steve Luevano, Juan Manuel Marquez, Joan Guzman and Takahiro Ao. Sadly, all the rest of the fighters that Kokietgym has faced during his career have been little known weak opponents with mostly poor records. On Saturday night, Kokietgym will be taking a huge step up in class from the normal mediocre opposition he faced when he gets in the ring with Salido.

Other weights on the card:

Javier Mendoza 108 vs. Ramón García 108
Angel Rodríguez 130 vs. Edgar Ramírez 131
Alejandro González 126 vs. Alen Robles 125.5
Elvis Torres 127 vs. José Pech 128
Máximino Flóres 112 vs. David Godínez 112



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