Kermit Cintron turned down Joshua Clottey for December 5
by Scott Christ on Oct 1, 2009 9:37 AM EDT
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PrintFormer welterweight titlist and current 154-pound contender Kermit Cintron told Primera Hora (link in Spanish) that he turned down an offer to fight Joshua Clottey on December 5, citing his October 24 date in Puerto Rico as his main reason.
Cintron (31-2-1, 27 KO) has fought twice in 2009, getting a gift draw in February against Sergio Martinez and then upsetting Alfredo Angulo in May in a WBC 154-pound eliminator bout, a fight that seemed designed to get the rising Mexican star Angulo a title shot, which was ruined when Cintron fought arguably the best fight of his career.
His October 24 fight, by the way, will be against Juliano Ramos (15-2, 12 KO), a Brazilian who was knocked out by Mike Jones in his last fight in August 2008. One wonders if this low-level fight really should be enough to keep Cintron from taking an HBO date with Clottey. He was also discussed as a potential Shane Mosley opponent recently. I understand his desire to fight in Puerto Rico, which he's never done, but seriously, he's passing up a lot of money and a big chance to make some serious waves.
As for Clottey, it still looks like the frontrunners are Luis Abregu and Kendall Holt. It's interesting that most of the talk for this card, which features a big fight between Kelly Pavlik and Paul Williams, is now centering on Clottey's opponent. Pavlik-Williams is done and good to go, but Clottey is seemingly having a hell of a time figuring out an opponent. He was going to fight Shane Mosley on December 26 before HBO pulled the plug, and now he's been allegedly turned down by Cintron and has turned down Sergio Martinez.
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this sucks, i hope they get clottey a decent opponent and, obviously, that he stays on the dec 5 card
makes u think back to the days of guys fighting 2-3 times a month with smaller gloves and all the rest. don’t make fighters like they used to, that’s for sure. the game truly has changed.
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by theworldsoldestsport on Oct 1, 2009 11:39 AM EDT reply actions
This is why crappy fights get made
HBO guaranteed Clottey a spot, and there probably isn’t enough money in the budget for a good opponent, so now he’s just going to keep turning guys down until he gets to face some bum.
I’d still like to see Clottey-Collazo, if that can get done. There has to be more than $35k worth of interest in that one now. Another possibility is Clottey-Aydin.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
No fanbase, not a particularly exciting fighter, not young, not charismatic.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
you could say that about most of the guys Golden Boy, i mean, HBO has been pushing the past few years
That’s another one: Not well connected.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
Yeah, I had some I had some pretty positive ideas about Collazo's career at one point.
Then he fought Mosley.
Boxing writer: "Iran, what are you going to do when you retire?"
Iran Barkley: "Rob your house"
Mosley's in a different class
It doesn’t help much that there’s a lot of elite talent at welterweight. If Collazo were a flyweight, he’d have about 5 or 6 title defenses under his belt by now.
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