Angulo Destroys Tsurkan

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.

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Angulo vs. Tsurkan On Saturday

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.

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Angulo Stops Gutierrez

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.

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Angulo vs. Gutierrez On Saturday

angulo444.jpgBy Aaron Klein: Undefeated light middleweight prospect Alfredo Angulo (12-0, 9 KOs) makes his second appearance of the year this Saturday night when takes on Colombian Richard Gutierrez (24-1, 14 KOs) in a bout for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental light middleweight title at the Buffalo Bills Hotel, in Primm, Nevada. Also on the card is undefeated light middleweight contender James Kirkland a super featherweight phenom Yuriorkis Gamboa, so this will be a good chance for the young 25 year-old Angulo to show off his skills in comparisons to fellow light middleweight Kirkland.

Angulo represented Mexico in the 2004 Olympic Games, losing to Ireland’s Andy Lee. Since turning professional in January 2005, Angulo has strung together a high percentage of knockouts in that short time period, with four of him nine knockout victories coming in the 1st round. In his last two fights, Angulo has surprised many with 1st round knockouts over the tough veterans Archak TerMeliksetian and most recently Ricardo Cortes. Most people hadn’t expected Angulo to win so impressively over either fighter. More to the point, some fans felt that Angulo wouldn’t be able to get by TerMeliksetian at all period, let alone knock him out in the 1st round.

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Alfredo Angulo: Is He A Future Champion?

angulo754447.jpgBy Manuel Perez: It may be a little too early to start discussing things like championships for unbeaten unior middleweight prospect Alfredo Angulo (12-0, 9 KOs), but I’m going to anyway, because I think Angulo has the boxing skills and power to be a champion in the division. Already, Angulo has knocked out nine of his twelve opponents, most of which he stopped well before the 6th round. Of course, the opposition is nothing to speak about, but the manner in which Angulo has beaten them has been especially impressive.

Angulo, still only 25, was formerly a member of the Mexican 2004 Olympic squad. This is perhaps why he isn’t mentioned as much as former American Olympic boxers from the same year. To go with his Olympic credentials, Angulo is a four-time amateur Mexican national champion, which says a lot about his ability, because Mexico has some of the best fighters in the world, amateur or professional. Angulo, though still very young in terms of years, is much more a polished fighter due to his impressive amateur background and Olympic status.

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Angulo vs. Cortes On Friday

angulo56.jpgBy Eric Schmidt: Hard-hitting undefeated junior middleweight prospect Alfredo Angulo (11-0, 8 KOs) will put his unbeaten record on the line on Friday night when he takes on fellow prospect Mexican Ricardo Cortes (22-1, 150 KOs) in a scheduled 10-round bout at the Grand Casino, in Hinckley, Minnesota. Angulo, 25, a former Olympian on 2004 Mexican boxing team, is one of the best prospects in the junior middleweight division. With explosive power in either hand, Angulo has the potential to end a fight at any moment. Though he’s not particularly fast in terms of handspeed, his power seems to make up for his lack of speed, at last up to this point in his still young career.

In his most recent bout, a 1st round TKO of the tough junior middleweight Archak TerMeliksetian on November 30th, 2007, Angulo badly hurt TerMeliksetian with a big left hook, and then finished off with a flurries of shots to the head. It was especially impressive considering that TerMeliksetian is a tough competitor with a lot of power.

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