With most promoters staying away from the date to not compete, the weekend is light with a lack of big fights and leaves a less than interesting card from Golden Boy/DAZN from Guadalajara, Mexico for boxing fans.
The only fight in the boxing challenge will be the latest squash match in Jaime Munguia's career as he faces Argentina's 21-5 Gonzalo Coria.
To quickly dispatch any chance of Coria winning, he has five losses, only eight knockouts, no victories of note, and has lost convincingly to the only two fighters that would be considered to be world-class in Janibek Alimkhanuly ( before he won the WBO title) and Fedor Czerkaszyn, so I'm not expecting much against Munguia.
As for Munguia, who has had a WBO title shot waiting for him whenever he wanted one for over three years, he continues to fight opponents past their prime, untested B-level prospects, or fighters that are nowhere near his level.
If this is Golden Boy or Munguia's management thinking they are protecting their fighter while he (and they) while collecting multi-million dollar paychecks then the last three years have proven to be quite successful.
However, the jury is still out on if this is improving Munguia as a fighter and I, for one, have had enough of these pro wrestling-type showcase affairs and can't wait to see how Munguia reacts when a top middleweight tests him in a tough fight.
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