Calderon vs. Cazares II - Results Thread

[the_godslayer]

Little giants busy!
Undefeated world champion Ivan "Iron Boy" Calderon and his challenger Hugo Cazares have been very busy this weekend in Puerto Rico promoting their fight next Saturday in the main event of Latin Fury to be telecast on Pay-Per-View in Puerto Rico and the United States. Cazares of Los Mochis, Mexico, got in on Thursday Night and, on Friday, both he and Calderon took part in the seven day pre-weight in Guaynabo, where Cazares was three pounds heavier then the limit of 116 pounds, though that was after a long 20 hours of flying to get to Puerto Rico. "I'm not worry I know what I need to do to make the weight and I will make it next Friday when I have to do it officially", said Cazares, who lost his WBO 108-pound title to Calderon last year here in Puerto Rico.
On Saturday, both guys were together again when they held public workouts at a local mall. Cazares was serenaded by a live Mariachi band while he worked, took pictures and signed autographs for the fans. Calderon had his own workout as the fans cheered him on. On Sunday, they where together again, doing a live national interview in Univision's highly rated sports show "Republica Deportiva.”
If the verbal sparring is any indication of the kind of fight this second encounter is going to be, it should be a war between these little giants. "I did not come all the way here to lose again,” says Cazares. “I'm here to take back my title—Calderon has borrowed it long enough.”
"I know how to beat Cazares, and I will do it again,” promises the confident “Iron Boy.” “People were surprised I won the first time, but I will prove that the first time was not a fluke.”
The card will be held at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseo in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, the site of the first fight. The card is promoted by PR Best Boxing and Top Rank in association with Golden Boy


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[the_godslayer]

Calderon-Cazares updates!
Photos by Chris Cozzone
When the big three championship fights between Mexican and Puerto Rican boxers were officially announced at the start of the year, the one that did not have a clear favorite was the Ivan Calderon-Hugo Cazarez match, even with Calderon winning the first fight last year in Puerto Rico.
Juan Manuel Lopez was an underdog against Daniel Ponce de Leon in June, and Antonio Margarito was an underdog to Miguel Cotto in July. Both favorites lost, and now Calderon and Cazarez will meet in the rubber match.
Calderon lucky in first?
"It seems that even with me winning the first fight, there are some people out there who think I might have been lucky to win,” says Calderon, who defends his WBO junior flyweight championship for the third time, against former champ Cazares, this Saturday in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
“Even with the knockdown against me, I felt that I won the fight very clearly and I'm ready to do it again,” says the champ.
Cazares who is 4-1 over the last three years in Puerto Rico, feels that this time he can win the fight.
One good round
"All I really need is one good round to win this fight,” says Cazares, who came close to knocking out the champion in round eight of their original fight.
“I can knock Calderon at anytime during the fight and that's all I need to finish him—one good round. I don't need the 12 he needs to beat me.”
Cazares on weight
Cazares had a media workout on Monday, and after the one-and-a-half-hour workout, he tipped the scales at 112.5, according to the Puerto Rican Boxing Commission who was on hand to supervise. On Friday, Cazares came in at 118.5 for the seven day pre-fight weight-in, when the limit was 113 pounds.
"I know the weight is not going to be a problem to make on Friday,” says the challenger. “I feel strong and will be going down on weight little by little the next four days.”
Calderon Exhibition
The Sports Museum of Puerto Rico opened a special photography exhibition today of Ivan Calderon's professional career. The photos will be displayed all week in one of the wings of the Museum dedicated to the Puerto Rico’s rich sports history. Museum officials also announced that a wax statute of Calderon's has being commission to be displayed alongside Wilfredo Gomez in the boxing wing of the Museum.
The Museum is located in the city of Guaynabo—in the same sports complex that houses the Wilfredo Gomez Gym—where Calderon has trained all his amateur and professional career; and where he works now as a trainer when he’s not preparing for a fight.
Lineup
There are three fights scheduled for the pay-per-view portion of the card: former world champion Erik Morel will take on Edel Ruiz in the opening fight of the TV telecast, in a 12-round bout at 118 pounds. In the co-main, world-ranked Ramon "Rocky" Martinez will take on hard hitting Santos Benavides of Nicaragua, in what promises to be an explosive fight as long as it lasts. This one is a 12-round affair at 130 pounds.


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[the_godslayer]

Calderon vs. Cazares II: Weight and See - Redux

Hugo Cazares, in search of a challenge, travels to Puerto Rico in late August, where awaits him is undefeated Ivan Calderon, perhaps the best pure boxer in the game.
Upon his grand arrival on “La Isla del Encanto,” Cazares is ordered to step on a scale in compliance with the mandatory 7-day and 30-day pre-fight safety check weigh-in ordered by sanctioning bodies.
Calderon was well within the tolerable 113.7 lb limit, which is 5% over the junior flyweight maximum weight of 108 lb. Cazares missed it, and by quite a margin.
The excuses for weighing in so heavy were that the long plane ride led to his gaining pounds he’d normally shed if otherwise training; and also that it’s not uncommon for him to drop 10 or so pounds in a week in order to make the junior flyweight limit by Friday.
If you feel like you’re experiencing ‘déjà vu all over again,’ it’s because the aforementioned was the exact same scenario one year ago, even documented on Boxingscene.com (Hugo Cazares- Ivan Calderon: Weight and See - Boxing News ).
Cazares is once again considerably over the limit for his fight with Calderon this weekend (Saturday, PPV live from Bayamon, PR, 9PM ET/6PM PT), clocking in at 118 lb, a little more than four pounds too heavy. It’s three pounds less than he had to lose last year, but is still looking at 10 pounds to drop between now and Saturday.
Calderon was even closer to the divisional limit than he was last year, coming in at 109 lb. seven days prior to the third defense of the linear junior flyweight crown he won from Cazares last summer.
Given the weights, location, the month and the lack of significant pro action that preceded it, very little has changed between the first fight and this weekend’s rematch – other than who enters the ring as champion.
Last year, it was Calderon moving up from strawweight to challenger for Cazares’ crown. He was successful in doing so, but the battle before the war came a week prior at the scales.
Heading into last August’s fight, Calderon was 111 lb at the seven-day checkpoint and 107 lb. at the pre-fight weigh-in. Cazares was 121 lb seven days prior, but managed to shrivel down to 107 ¾ lb. the day before the fight to prevent from losing his title at the scales.
He would, however, lose it in the ring. Calderon boxed like a dream in the first half of the fight, while Cazares looked sluggish, perhaps showing the effects of a fighter forced to lose a lot of weight in a short amount of time.
Still, the hard-hitting Mexican made good on the pre-fight scouting report suggesting he boasted a legitimate puncher’s chance of adding a “1” to Calderon’s loss column. An eighth-round knockdown dramatically changed the course of the fight, with the diminutive Puerto Rican in an equal amount of trouble in the ninth and parts of the tenth before reverting to form down the stretch.
It was when Calderon became more mobile in the bouts final eight or so minutes that Cazares’ limitations – as a boxer and in experience against facing southpaws – were exposed. Unable to cut off the ring, Cazares spent the final two rounds battling fatigue, turning a fight still very much on the table into a well-deserved split decision win for Calderon.
Afterward, Cazares (26-4-1, 19KO) expressed disgust in the final outcome, believing he won the fight, as well as interest in a rematch. However, once 2007 became 2008, Team Cazares pondered whether or not it was any longer worth it to shrink down to junior flyweight, if flyweight (or higher) wouldn’t better suit his 5’5” frame.
His handlers erred on the side of caution, with his comeback fight serving the best of both worlds. Cazares’ lone fight since losing to Calderon (31-0, 6KO) came this past January. The bout was fought at the flyweight limit (though Cazares came in one pound heavy), but against durable southpaw Kermin Guardia.
It was mission accomplished, at least by fight’s end. Cazares was once again sluggish in the early going, only this time Cazares recovered much quicker, dominating the fight from the third round on en route to a unanimous decision. Afterward, he expressed interest in both returning to junior flyweight and, more specifically, seeking a rematch with Calderon.
That decision is what leads us to the first taste of televised pro boxing in nearly a month, only for the same old storyline to resurface.
If nothing else, it once again addresses an old issue of what exactly is the point of the 30-day and 7-day pre-fight checkpoints.
The policy makes sense from a safety standpoint. Dropping excessive weight in a short amount of time can greatly compromise a fighter’s in-the-ring performance and more importantly, put his health at serious risk.
Yet fighters have mastered the practice, to the point of it becoming an art. So one-week and one-month checkpoints, in effect, serve as babysitters for said “artists.”
The problem is, there’s nobody there to force them to draw inside the lines.
Both the WBO and the Puerto Rican Commission washed their hands of last year’s incident. The WBO (whose junior flyweight title is also at stake in this fight) insisted the 7-day pre-fight weigh-in was the commission’s rule, not theirs; they would only step in if Cazares showed up heavy at the official weigh-in.
The commission walked sideways on the issue, expressing concern over Cazares’ having to drop so much weight in a week, but said nothing along the lines of disciplinary action to be taken for the infraction.
One year later, same issues, same concern, same response – none.
As noted physician Dr. Margaret Goodman so often mentions, boxing is supposed to be about giving yourself the best possible chance to win a fight. It’s not supposed to be about making weight – that part should be a given, not the fight before the fight.
Yet here we are again – one fighter who can look forward to Saturday evening, while the other’s immediate fate won’t be revealed until he steps on a scale Friday afternoon.
It’s hardly boxing the way it ought to be, but unfortunately, just is.

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[TommyGunn]

Unbeaten WBO jr flyweight champion Ivan 'Iron Boy' Calderon (32-0, 6 KOs) won a seven round technical decision over former champion Hugo Cazares (26-6-1, 19 KOs) on Saturday night at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Calderon boxed beautifully and was in command until an unintentional head butt in round seven left the "Iron Boy" with a nasty gash on his forehead 1:58 into the round. Scores were 67-66, 68-65, 68-65.