WBC Silver Super Middleweight champion Jaime Munguia is scheduled on January 27th to improve his record to 43-0, meeting former WBO Interim Super Middleweight champion John ‘The Gorilla’ Ryder, 32-6, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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In his last fight, he lost by a decision to Super Middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in May. In his previous fight, he stopped Zack Parker, 22-0, for the WBO Interim title.
There are only two current unbeaten boxers with at least 40 wins, and besides Munguia, it’s welterweight champion Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford at 40-0, who has announced he is only having a couple more fights.
At only 27, Munguia is in no rush to fight others in his division like Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez or even David Benavidez, 28-0.
Munguia had three fights in 2022 but only fought once in 2023, winning the WBC Silver title and defeating Sergiy Derevyanchenko, 14-4, in Ontario, Canada, in June.
Some of Munguia’s best wins were over such opponents as D’Mitirus Ballard, 21-0-1, in Tijuana in February of 2022.
In October 2020, Munguia won the vacant WBO Inter-Continental Middleweight title, stopping Tureano Johnson, 21-2-1, in Indio, CA.
In May of 2018, Munguia won the WBO World Super Welterweight title, stopping Sadam ‘World Kid’ Ali, 26-1, in four rounds in Verona, NY. He made five defenses, including defeating Liam ‘Beefy’ Smith, 26-1-1; Brandon ‘Bad Boy’ Cook, 20-1 in three rounds; Takeshi Inoue, 13-0-1; Dennis ‘Hurricane’ Hogan, 28-1-1 and Patrick Allotey, 40-3 in four rounds.
In February of 2018, Munguia won his first title, stopping in three rounds Argentina’s Jose ‘Puro’ Carlos Paz, 21-6-1, for the vacant WBO Latino Super Welterweight title.
Hailing from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, Munguia has fought some thirty times in his home country, including his first twenty-five fights.
“John Ryder is not an easy fighter. He demonstrated that not only with Canelo but against Callum Smith with a bunch of fighters,” said Munguia to Boxing Social.
“I’m going to look to knock him out, and if I do that, I’m going to show that I’m learning from each fight and everything gets better with time.
“We’re just focused on John Ryder. We know it’s a tough fight, and if we want to fight the big names, we need to win over Ryder first,” said Munguia when asked what his thoughts are that fans are talking about him possibly facing Canelo Alvarez next.
