By Manuel Perez: Kermit Cintron (30-2, 27 KOs) will take on Sergio Martinez (44-1-1, 24 KOs) for the interim WBC light middleweight title on February 14th. The date was left open for Cintron after Joe Greene was unable to make the fight with Martinez due to kidney stones. Next, Daniel Santos stepped in but he needed more time to train, wanting to fight in March rather than February.
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Cintron Decisions N’dou
By Aaron Klein: Former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (30-2, 27 KOs) defeated former IBF light welterweight title holder Lovemore N’dou (46-11-1, 31 KOs) by a harder than expected 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night in a IBF welterweight title eliminator at the Vanderbilt University Memorial Gymnasium, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Cintron & Gomez: What Now?
By Peter Kurth: This last weekend was particularly hard on former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (29-2, 27 KOs) and former star from The Contender Alfonso Gomez (18-4-2, 8 KOs), both of which were destroyed by their opponents Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito.
Of the two, Gomez took the worse beating, but then again, he was never excepted to be very competitive in the first place, having been brought in largely for an easy payday for the WBA welterweight champion Cotto. Certainly Cotto deserved an easy fight after having fought Zab Judah and Shane Mosley in back to back fights, but there was hope by some that Gomez might have a sliver of a chance against Cotto.
Cintron vs. Margarito On April 26th
In an act of either pure bravery or a sign of confused thinking, International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (29-1, 27 KOs) has reportedly signed to fight a rematch with his former conqueror Antonio Margarito (35-5, 25 KOs) on April 26th at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Apparently, the winner of the bout will possibly meeting up with Miguel Cotto, after he finishes destroying Alfonso Gomez on April 12th.
Cintron, 28, seems to have made a big mistake in opting to fight the 29 year-old Margarito, as he was previously destroyed by Margarito in a 5th round TKO in April 2005, a bout in which Cintron was knocked down four times in the process of losing the fight. After the first three rounds, the fight was no longer competitive, as Cintron didn’t have the punch output to match Margarito, and found himself getting hurt repeatedly by Margarito’s powerful hooks to the body and head. Cintron’s defense was poor, allowing Margarito to shoot through his guard with shots to the head.
Williams Angered Over Cintron’s Choice Of Margarito & Cotto for Future Opponents
In the latest boxing news, undefeated World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Paul Williams (33-0, 24 KOs) is reportedly furious at International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron due to him opting to call out Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito rather than taking on a bout with Williams. Previous to this, Williams and Cintron had decided on fighting each other on February 23, following Cintron’s title defense on November 23rd. However, Cintron appeared to have change of heart after winning the fight by 10th round stoppage and discovering that he had once again re-injured his right hand.
Is Cintron Making A Mistake In Fighting Margarito?
In the past week, International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (29-1, 27 KOs) has publically called out Antonio Margarito (35-5, 25 KOs), saying that he wants to fight him as soon as possible, apparently a move made to attempt to erase the previous stain of defeat for Cintron. Two years earlier, in April 2005, Cintron, 28, was stopped in five brutal rounds by Margarito, a bout in which Cintron was knocked down four times before the fight was finally stopped at 2:12 of the 5th round.
I personally don’t see how the fight will be any different than the first time because Cintron doesn’t have an answer for Margarito’s high volume punch output. While Cintron is the harder puncher of the two, he tends to be much more selective of his punches, loading up for an occasional huge shot, whereas Margarito throws a steady volume of hard shots which make it difficult on his opponents. Cintron showed that he couldn’t deal with that kind of fire power from Margarito and quickly succumbed to Margarito’s constant raining punches. It didn’t matter that Cintron hit harder, because Margarito proved to be able to take his punches without much problem.
Cintron Wants Rematch With Margarito
Once beaten International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (29-1, 27 KOs) made it public yesterday his desire to meet up with Antonio Margarito as soon as possible to get revenge for his previous defeat to him, a one-sided 5th round TKO loss in April 2005.
Apparently, Cintron, 28, feels that he wasn’t ready last time out against Margarito, saying “I was coming off a 9 month layoff, hand surgery, and had only 4 weeks to prepare. I’m not going to make any more excuses, but I know that fight was a fluke. When I fight Margarito again, the fight will once again end in a knockout. Only this time, it will be Margarito lying on the canvas.”
What Cintron fails to remember, however, is that he was out-gunned in virtually every second of the bout, lacking both the handspeed and the punching output to contend with Margarito.
Williams Wants Cintron To Take The Challenge
In today’s boxing news, unbeaten superstar World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Paul Williams (33-0, 24 KOs) badly wants his counterpart, International Boxing Federation welterweight Kermit Cintron to take him on as previously planned for their February 2nd bout. However, the bout hasn’t been confirmed as of yet because the contractors haven’t been signed. Apparen’t, Williams is under the impression that Cintron isn’t in a rush to fight him because of the fact that Williams already defeated Antonio Margarito by unanimous decision in July 2007, a fighter who demolished Cintron in five brutal rounds in 2005.
Cintron Defends Title Against Feliciano On Saturday
International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (28-1, 26 KOs) defends his title in a stay busy fight against tough club fighter-type Jesse Feliciano (15-5-3, 9 KOs) on Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Cintron, 28, is making his first defense since stopping top Argentinian welterweight prospect Walter Matthysse, who Cintron blasted out in the 2nd round in July.