According to MaxBoxingScene, "a deal is in the works" for Michael Katsidis to return agains Jesus Chavez and Joel Casamayor to defend against Juan Diaz. The date they're looking at is September 13 in Houston.
REED is Surprised that Casamayor would Take on Another YOUNG, AGGRESSIVE Guy after the Katsidis Bout...But then Again, Juan DOESN'T have the POWER of Katsidis... Katsidis WRECKS Jesus Chavez.... IN Houston???!!...SWEET!!! REED:clap:
Casamayor is CLEARLY ducking Nate Campbell. Why fight the guy who just lost? What a fucking disgrace!
Casamayor would fight his mother if they pay him :: I think Chavez - Diaz will be a great fight :bears:
What about Santa Cruz? That guy got robbed big time and still is getting robbed! I thought he had a mandatory rematch???
who gives a shit about santa cruz? he got clocked by david diaz and managed outwork a rusty casamayor in an absolute stinker. is santa cruz the real champ? what about david diaz? how many 'real champs' are there in the lightweight division? ::
Chavez is Toooooooo SMALL for Katsidis... So was Casa, but he Had the SKILLS & POP to Overcome it...Chavez has HEART, but Not Enough TANGIBLES... Katsidis STOPS him N LESS than 10 Rounds... REED
How DARE U???:dunno: ... Santa Cruz DOMINATED the "Lineal" Champ, Joel Casamayor!!!...Which Makes him the UNCROWNED "Lineal" Lightweight Champ..."Ya'll Musta Forgot" just HOW IMPORTANT a "Lineal" Title is... Show some Fucking RESPECT!!!:flip: ... REED:stir:
Well, it does matter when the win(s) actually take place. To be fair to Santa Cruz, he was easily outpointing Diaz until he came a cropper. Doug Fischer had an interesting article not too long ago about what went on between his camp (primarily his manager) and G. Supposedly, HBO and Showtime weren't interested in a re with Casamayor but he was reportedly offered the fight with Katsidis and his manager turned it down. He's now supposed to fight a WBC title eliminator against Antonio Pitalua.
doug and kim love working as their local mexi-cali fighters' unofficial publicists. didnt santa cruz also lose to some journeyman spoiler a few fights before losing to diaz? just because cruz has one significant win (officially a loss) doesnt necessarily mean that he deserves a shot nor the money. what else has he done? on top of that, he's not even fun to watch.
I agree about the publicists comment, but he quotes Rudy Hernandez and Eric Gomez at length in the piece. I didn't watch it, but from the reports at teh time Trejo loss followed a similar pattern of the Diaz fight, he was up big and was knocked out late. I guess it was extremely hot in the Houston venue they were fighting and he simply fatigued badly and was stopped.
what was his excuse for getting stopped by the moderate punching david diaz? perhaps he just isnt very good?
It wasn't his excuse, that's what was written in the reports at the time. (Karl Hegman's description, since it was the easies to find: "The temperature inside the D & I Colonial Ballroom was 95 humid Texas Gulf Coast degrees and inside the ring under the hot lights, it was over a hundred.") I'm not making the case he's that good, or that his manager should have turned down the Katsidis fight. Regardless of either, though, I haven't seen one person who actually thought Casamayor beat him.
You guys are ripping on Santa Cruz yeah, I can see why and I'm not trying to make him out to be a consistent world class opponent. The part about it that sucks,is that this guy may have lost out on his ONE chance to get paid well.
This is going to be a fun one to watch to be sure! There may be no bigger fan or admirer or Joel's than myself here on fightbeat as I have followed his career with admiration since he was the amateur world champion in the 80's. But; I think youth will be served here as I am going with Diaz to outhustle the Cuban Great to a wide points win. The fight will take place on Mexican Independence Day as well, should make for an awesome boxing weekend! Houston will be rocking and rolling, that's for sure!
