Juan Manuel Lopez storms past Bernabe Concepcion in two rounds
by Scott Christ on Jul 10, 2010 10:35 PM EDT
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Juan Manuel Lopez and Bernabe Concepcion gave us six of the best and most exciting minutes of boxing in 2010, with Lopez retaining his WBO featherweight belt via second round stoppage against the Filipino challenger.
Lopez (29-0, 26 KO) put Concepcion down in the first round, and had already badly hurt him before then. But while Lopez was throwing big, heavy shots throughout the first round, he was decked himself by a sudden hard left hook from Concepcion near the bell of the first round.
Nearly right off the bat in the second, Lopez put Concepcion (28-4-1, 15 KO) down with a straight left hand, and near the end of the round, finished him off. With Concepcion down once more, and this time badly hurt, the fight was stopped.
It was a hell of a fun six minutes to say the least, and those who missed it are encouraged to check out a replay.
Now, Lopez moves on to a September 18 date with Rafael Marquez, the biggest fight of Lopez's career. I love the fight on paper and think that for as long as it lasts (and it might not get past a couple rounds, either), it'll be great fun. It's also a wonderful alternative to Golden Boy's Shane Mosley-Sergio Mora PPV that night, so we can all thank Showtime for giving us something better that won't cost $50.
In the co-feature, Nonito Donaire fought four rounds as a southpaw against overmatched, undersized Hernan Marquez, and then went back to orthodox to toy with the unprepared 21-year-old Mexican until stopping him at the end of the eighth round. Donaire will move up to bantamweight in his next fight and hopefully will stop fighting guys who offer him no challenge.
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Seriously... if you weren't able to catch this fight
Find a replay ASAP. That was a damn fun 6 minutes.
JuanMa really has it. There is something special about this guy.
It's already on Youtube
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
The KD in the first round was a little concerning. Opening yourself up so much that even someone this overmatched can KD you, is not a good sign by any stretch of the imagination.
by Waldo Rastel on Jul 11, 2010 3:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Concepcion was overmatched in offensive weaponry, and I didn’t think he had much chance at beating Lopez, but it wasn’t like it was Donaire-Marquez or something.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jul 11, 2010 7:46 AM EDT up reply actions
True but JuanMa shouldn’t be getting KD by Concepcion no matter the situation.
by Waldo Rastel on Jul 11, 2010 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Getting knocked down is not that big of a deal. Yuriorkis Gamboa has been knocked down plenty, too.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jul 12, 2010 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
He didn’t look hurt at all.
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jul 12, 2010 5:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Totally agree
But it looked like JML just got a little ahead of himself trying to finish him there and left himself open.
I wasn’t able to see his eyes/face when he went down to the canvas. Was he dazed at all?
When he got up, he looked even more shocked and disappointed in himself than we were.
Predict--
that the fact that Lopez is often tagged will be a problem if he ever fights Gamboa.
And vice versa...
Both guys are exciting, aggressive, and lacking on defense. Can’t wait to see them fight each other, hopefully sometime early next year?
Well
That’s the latest from Arum, but don’t hold your breath.
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jul 13, 2010 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Juanma will eventually hit someone hard that hits back even harder. And then we’ll see how far up the food chain he wind up. Mtagwe and Concepcion were entertaining opponents but not the elite that Juanma will eventually meet. Both men were able to knock him back and down but neither was equipped to do much more. His fights are starting to remind me a bit of Fernando Vargas, another fighter whose confidence and aggression often worked to his disadvantage. Juanma is carrying the hope of a country with a great boxing tradition. I can only imagine that a lot of his fellow Boricua are hoping he doesn’t follow the always exciting but less than illustrious shortened path of the talented but flawed Mexican/American star.
Vargas might not be a bad comp
But people forget that Vargas was able to accomplish a lot before he moved up.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
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