Viloria vs Segura: Giovani Segura Has Broken Orbital Bone After Loss to Viloria

by Scott Christ on Dec 11, 2011 8:34 PM EST in Boxing News Analysis

Flyweight contender and former junior flyweight world champion Giovani Segura reportedly suffered a broken orbital bone last night in the Philippines, with the injury coming early in his TKO-8 loss to Brian Viloria, according to his team.

Segura (28-2-1, 24 KO) will remain hospitalized in the Philippines for the time being.

The 29-year-old Segura gave a valiant effort, fighting through massive swelling on the right side of his head and the eye injury to stay in the fight as long as he did, but he did often look simply overmatched against the smarter, more controlled, far more accurate Viloria (30-3, 17 KO).

[ Related: Viloria Stops Segura - Recap ]

It's worth wondering if it might be time for Segura to get a new chief second in his corner. He's trained by Javier Capetillo, the disgraced former trainer of Antonio Margarito (who also suffered a broken orbital bone last year, though not under Capetillo's guidance), and Segura's one-dimensional, wild-swinging ways betrayed him against a fighter sturdy enough to take the shots that landed, and slick enough to avoid the majority of the blows thrown his way. Segura was beaten up and out-gunned last night against Viloria, who was simply too good for the Mexican brawler.

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Hopefully Segura will be okay.

I saw an amazing tweet today from Brian Viloria saying that he was having breakfast with Segura’s team, just a day removed from tearing lumps out of each other. One of those moments when you think all isn’t lost in the sport.

"Occasionally, there is a boxing match that, in its demonstration of skill, courage, intelligence, hope, seems to redeem the sport - almost. Perhaps boxing has always been a sport in crisis, a sport of crisis."

by Oli Goldstein on Dec 11, 2011 8:36 PM EST reply actions

Segura talked a lot in the lead-up but from what I understand both sides are friendly with one another, and they’ve sparred a lot in the past.

Thankfully they didn’t have a buddy fight like that Bute vs Johnson turd.

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by Scott Christ on Dec 11, 2011 8:38 PM EST up reply actions

Thankfully they didn’t have a buddy fight like that Bute vs Johnson turd.

They could have always whipped out the occasional “bro hug”, though, just to keep things nice and friendly.

by Oli Goldstein on Dec 11, 2011 8:39 PM EST up reply actions

How good was this fight?

Should I seek it out? Is it a top ten FOTY contender?

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by Matt Miller on Dec 11, 2011 9:39 PM EST reply actions

No, not close to that. It’s good — if you’ve got time and it’s easy to track down a copy, worth watching.

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by Scott Christ on Dec 11, 2011 9:43 PM EST up reply actions

Segura strikes me as the type of guy who gets confused when you suggest he defend himself better because, if he's using his hands to protect his face, what's he going to punch people with?

by Patrick L. Stumberg on Dec 11, 2011 10:03 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

I watched the fight live, and was surprised it wasn’t stopped sooner. Segura was less bloody than Margarito, but he was more swollen. It looked awful, and turns out it was awful. He’s a pretty straightforward fighter, but fighting on as badly injured as that couldn’t have helped his game.

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by BoxAnne on Dec 11, 2011 11:22 PM EST reply actions

I'd like to see Segura link up with Robert Garcia.

He’s got a similar style to Brandon Rios, and although Rios still gets hit a lot he doesn’t get slammed with so many flush punches as he used to. Plus, Segura could do with tightening up his offensive technique and stop throwing so many wild, looping punches, and Garcia’s certainly helped Rios do that.

by ham_napkin on Dec 12, 2011 7:14 AM EST reply actions

I don’t think he and Rios fight similarly at all, honestly. Rios stays in the pocket and throws accurate, short shots. Segura throws ridiculous bombs from way downtown and lunges all over the place.

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by Scott Christ on Dec 12, 2011 11:58 AM EST up reply actions