WBC #2 super middleweight Jaime Munguia rebounded from May’s defeat to Canelo Alvarez with a 10th-round knockout Friday evening over the previously unbeaten Erik Bazinyan at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
“It was a fight I had to do intelligently,” said Munguia afterward. “He’s strong. He hits hard. So, we had to break him down and be careful with shots to the body. And in the 10th round, that’s when I decided to come out with everything. And that’s how we got the knockout.
“There are great things to come, great fights at 168 pounds. There’s Caleb Plant, {Edgar} Berlanga, Christian Mbilli. There are great fights, and we will give great wars as well.”
What about fighting Benavides? Quite a few think he’s the bees knees , challenge him.
Benavides moved up to fight a winner of Bivol vs Beterbiev… it’ll be more expensive fight
Benavidez is campaigning at lightheavyweigh now.
I doubt anybody has ever called out Benavidez.
mungia is back to his “participation award “fights. he wont fight plant or mbilli as golden boy wont allow these fights. as far as berlanga he is another “fighter” raised on “participation awards” so that fight might not happen either. These fighters now a days are so over protected – coddled. Both mungia and berlanga will just wait around for their ” $cripted rematches ” .
Gotta pay attention bud, Munguia is no longer with golden boy. You get no participation award for this comment.
I fully believe he wants to make the biggest fights at 168. And he will compete with all those fighters. Idk if he’ll win, but he’s a player in this division
With golden boy or top rank, its the same approach . the real promotion for mungia is zanfer boxing with fernando beltran from mexico . they partner up when he fights in the US.
Carlos, Munguia is no longer with Golden Boy, he is with Top Rank now
I think Plant vs Munguia would be a good matchup. Stylistically, it favors Plant even though he’s a step slower in my opinion. Make it happen. I’m not sure that he will be allowed to trade bombs with Mbili next.
I am not sure why Munguia did not mention Pacheco. I am hoping for an excellent fight between Munguia/Pacheco.
If we want a fight of the year candidate for 2025, let’s try Munguia vs. Mbilli in a small ring
There should be several attractive fights in Munguia’s future.
Does anyone know why Munguia left Golden Boy for Top Rank? I was unaware Jaime & Oscar had a falling out.
His contract expired giving him the option of working with other promoters