By Huck Allen: Knockout artist Jaime Munguia and Gabe Rosado will probably be assembly tonight in the principle occasion on DAZN on the Honda Middle in Anaheim, California. The motion begins at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 PT.
Former WBO junior middleweight champion Munguia (37-0, 30 KOs) and the damaging puncher Rosado (26-13-1, 15 KOs) will probably be battling in a combat that might have large implications for the winner.
Munguia and Rosado are hoping to problem for a world title in 2022. Rosado, 35, desires to maintain his profession alive after an enormous bounce-back victory final June over Bektemir Melikuziev
Boxing Information 24 will probably be giving updates beneath:
Munguia is preventing for the fourth time at 160, however the jury continues to be out on whether or not he’s ever going to win a world title on this weight class.
Munguia vs. Rosado card:
Arely Mucino vs. 10×2 Jacky Calvo
D’Mitrius Ballard vs. Paul Valenzuela Jr.
Alexis Roacha vs. Jeovanis Barraza
William Zepeda vs. John Vincent Moralde
Alejandro Reyes vs. Osmel Mayorga
Jorge Chavez vs. Gilberto Aguilar
Asa Stevens vs. Felix Mendez Vasquez
Munguia vs. Rosado = previous time basic
“To begin with, the match-up matches hand & glove,” mentioned Bernard Hopkins to Fight Hub TV on tonight’s predominant occasion combat between Jaime Munguia and Gabe Rosado. “It’s going to come back all the way down to who desires it probably the most and who has one of the best plan.
“Whoever has one of the best plan and needs it probably the most goes to be victorious,” Hopkins continued on his view of the Munguia vs. Rosado combat. “Munguia is just not backing down.
“He’s not shy from getting hit or happening and getting up and destroying his opponents, not less than up till now. You have got that mentality going up Rosado. I don’t must let you know about Rosado’s mentality.
“That is our modern-day Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti. That is going to be that sort of battle. However the distinction within the types and talents that they’ve on this period, Munguia and Rosado.
“They each produce other issues that they’re good at whereas these fighters I discussed, Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti, have been restricted to sure issues,” mentioned Hopkins.
At 154, Munguia took benefit of being put within the excellent state of affairs by going through a flawed champion in Sadam Ali to win the WBO junior middleweight title.
Ali was primarily a welterweight, who moved up in weight to defeat an previous and injured Miguel Cotto in 2017.
When Munguia got here alongside, he took benefit of a weak champion that might have by no means been a world champion if not for Cotto being previous and injured.
At 160, it’s not going to be as simple for Munguia as a result of there aren’t any champions as susceptible as Cotto was on the finish of his profession. Except a belt opens up with one of many champions vacating or retiring, Munguia might have a troublesome time.
Munguia-Rosado is 50/50 match-up
“They didn’t actually field or step again to do some slick stuff to purchase a while to get their bearings proper as a result of they perhaps obtained hit, perhaps obtained harm perhaps obtained lower,” mentioned Hopkins. “I see much more capability from this match-up [Munguia vs. Rosado] on each guys’ sides.
“No one has the benefit on this combat,” mentioned Hopkins. “Hear, Munguia could be due to age the favourite, however the stay canine in Rosado and a extra harmful canine too. So the followers win once more.
“He believes he can win and he’s not coming in as an opponent,” Hopkins mentioned of Rosado being one of the best he’s ever been in his profession.
“When you’ve an individual that went in and all the time tried to win however understanding if he didn’t get a knockout or if he didn’t win 10 out of the 12 rounds or 8 out of 10 rounds of the combat or regardless of the rounds are, then he ain’t getting nothing with out taking it.
“You understand what a harmful man is? A harmful man has nothing to lose. Rosado has obtained extra to lose than Munguia and Munguia has extra to lose than Rosado. I say it’s the primary.
“Rosado has nothing to lose. That’s the man I’m going with. The man I’m being attentive to and the flexibility that led as much as this. I’m lower from the kind of material the place that’s a harmful man as a result of each combat he [Rosado] fought since Daniel Jacobs [in November 2020], there’s both yet one more defeat and so they knew they have been burying.
“They’d the shovel within the filth prepared. So, he is aware of he’s preventing each combat that it’s a victory to maneuver ahead or filth to bury him within the graveyard,” mentioned Hopkins.
Rosado has discovered from Hopkins
“It grew on me that he was good sufficient to ask questions and actually humble sufficient to not assume he knew all the things himself and I began taking him to camp,” mentioned Hopkins about Rosado.
“He was just like the third or fourth sparring companion that I had as a result of I by no means actually needed to let my sparring companions assume they have been sparring companions. They have been my helpers.
“So, I all the time needed my helpers to go in there with a mentality that you simply ain’t my sparring companions, you’re my helpers as a result of one of the best you may give me the extra you possibly can be taught within the course of as a result of you’ve your individual profession.
“Gabe is a product of that as you’ve seen right here up till just lately, he’d been in 15 of 16 camps with me, studying. I’ve obtained to remind you now, he was younger and I took him beneath my wing.
“That’s what Philly do. We glance out for one another. We’d combat one another, however we glance out for one another,” mentioned Hopkins.
