Alfredo Angulo

Angulo To Fight Rivera on February 14th, Cintron vs. Martinez

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angulo45635231By Jim Dower: Unbeaten light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (14-0, 11 KOs) will be facing his third opponent this Saturday, February 14th, when he takes on welterweight journeyman Cosme Rivera (31-11-2, 22 KOs) at the BankAtlantic Center, in Sunrise, Florida. Angulo, 26, a former 2004 Olympian for the Mexican team, was initially set to meet former welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga, but he bailed out on the fight after apparently suffering an injury.

Mayorga Pulls Out Of Angulo Bout

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mayorga5623635By Jim Dower: Light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (14-0, 11 KOs) received some bad news this week in the form of former welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga (28-7-1, 22 KOs) suddenly pulling out of their February 14th bout due to an injury that Ricardo sustained in training camp. The fight, if it had gone ahead, would have potentially given Angulo’s still young career a big shot in the arm had he been able to defeat Mayorga in an impressive manner.

News: Campbell-Funeka, Angulo-Mayorga, Cintron-Martinez

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campbell4523464Unified lightweight world champion Nate “Galaxxy Warrior” Campbell (32-5-1, 25 KOs) gave a stern warning to International Boxing Federation No. 1-Ranked lightweight mandatory challenger Ali “Rush Hour” Funeka (30-1, 25 KOs) at a Don King-hosted press conference at BankAtlantic Center today promoting their Valentine’s Day meeting in South Florida.

Angulo vs. Mayorga on February 14th

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angulo4563523By Jim Dower: Unbeaten light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (14-0, 11 KOs) will face two-time welterweight and former light middleweight champion Ricardo Mayorga (28-7-1, 2 KOs) on February 14th, a fight that will likely be a war from the opening bell. Angulo, 26, a former 2004 Olympian for the Mexican amateur team, is one of the hottest stars in the boxing world, and has already beaten quality light middleweights like Richard Gutierrez, Andrey Tsurkan and Archak TerMeliksetian, showing a lot of power and a high work rate that reminds many fans of a harder punching version of welterweight Antonio Margarito.

Angulo Destroys Tsurkan

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angulo4535634.jpgBy Manuel Perez: Undefeated light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (14-0, 11 KOs) gave Ukrainian contender Andrey Tsurkan (26-4, 17 KOs) a sound beating on Saturday night, battering him in every round until the fight was mercifully stopped at the 2:27 mark in the 10th round by referee Tony Krebs in the 10th round at the Pechanga Resort & Casino, in Temecula, California. What originally started off as a fairly competitive fight in the first couple of rounds turned into an ugly one-sided fight by the 3rd as Tsurkan didn’t have the power or the style suited to fight a rugged, high volume, hard punching light middleweight like Angulo.

It was like watching a harder throwing version of welterweight Antonio Margarito going out and destroying another hapless opponent. However, in this case, Angulo throws far less hooks and uppercuts than Margarito, preferring to mix in straighter shots than Margarito, whom he spars with on occasion. Tsurkan, 31, took an enormous amount of punishment in the bout and by the 7th round, he looked badly beaten, his face swollen around both eyes and red from the accumulation of punishment he had sustained. The fight arguably should have been stopped at this point, or perhaps a round earlier in the 6th, for it was painfully obvious that Tsurkan, although having put in a courageous effort against Angulo, just didn’t have the power to take him out.

Angulo vs. Tsurkan On Saturday

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angulo34453.jpgBy Manuel Perez: Undefeated light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (13-0, 10 KOs) takes on what is likely his biggest test of his young career on Saturday night against top ranked Andrey Tsurkan (26-3, 17 KOs) in a scheduled 10-round bout at the Pechanga Resort & Casino, in Temecula, California. This fight matches two fighters with a similar nonstop punching style, who get by with furious unrelenting attacks on their opponents. However, Angulo is the much harder puncher of the two, and by far the more dangerous fighter, and the one with the biggest upside.

Angulo, 26, a former Olympian for the 2004 Mexican team, is ranked #6th in the WBO, 10 in the WBC and #13rh in the IBF. He has big power and a work rate reminiscent of WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito, only slightly slower than Margarito. However, Angulo more than makes up for his lack of speed by having crushing power and good punching technique. Although it’s still a little premature to make predictions about his career considering he’s only fought 13 times, he appears to have the talent to be a future champion. His management team haven’t been shy about putting him in with good competition, that’s for sure.

Angulo Stops Gutierrez

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angulo462235.jpgBy Scott Gilfoid: In perhaps the most exciting fight of the night on card with top prospects James Kirkland and Yuriorkis Gamboa, undefeated light middleweight prospect Alfredo Angulo (13-0, 10 KOs) stopped Colombian Richard Gutierrez (24-2, 14 KOs) in the 5th round of a scheduled 10-round bout to win the vacant WBO Inter-Continental light middleweight title on Saturday night at the Buffalo Bills Hotel, in Primm, Nevada. Angulo, 25, a former 2004 Olympic representative for the Mexican team, was hurt by a powerful left hook by Gutierrez in the 5th round.

Gutierrez, 29, appeared to get careless as he went for the knockout, and left himself open for a big right hand from Angulo, who stunned him. Instead of rushing quickly to score a knockout of his own, Angulo stayed calm, and placed his punches well to the head and body of Gutierrez. A short while later, after taking numerous big right hands to the head, a now staggering Gutierrez, could barely stand and was taking tremendous punishment causing the referee Tony Weeks to move in and stop the fight at 2:48 of the 5th round to prevent Gutierrez from absorbing more punishment.