Mexican
power-puncher Marco Antonio Rubio will take on Argentina’s former World
Champion Carlos Manuel Baldomir for the vacant World Boxing Federation
World Super Middleweight title on Saturday September 8 at the Estadio
Miguel Aleman in Celaya, Mexico.
The
show, labeled “Viva Celaya Campeones”, will be promoted by HG Boxing
and Promociones Del Pueblo, and will go out live on television
throughout Mexico on Televisa.
Rubio,
54-6-1 (47), turned professional in 2000 and has since build an
amazingly impressive resume. Almost half of his sixty-one fights were
for titles, twenty-nine to be exact, and twenty-four times Rubio emerged
victorious from championship bouts.
Having
won Mexican national titles and various regional straps, this will be
the 32-year-olds third attempt to capture a world championship. In 2009
he lost a challenge of world middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, and
this past February he got the wrong end of a close decision, also at
middleweight, against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
Moving
up to Super Middleweight, Rubio will this time be on home turf, and he
won’t be coming in as the outsider. But he is facing a fighter in
Baldomir, 49-14-6 (15), who is no stranger to being an outsider, and
very often winning as such.
Although
41-years-old, Carlos Manuel Baldomir is still operating at a very high
level, and all his impressive victories since turning pro in 1993 are
way too many to mention. In 2006 he dethroned world champion Zab Judah
in New York, and six months later defended the title by stopping Arturo
Gatti in Atlantic City before ultimately relinquishing it on points to
pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Since
then a lot of water has flown under the bridge, and Baldomir has yet to
recapture his old glory. In 2007 he came up short in a Super
Welterweight world title-challenge against the late Vernon Forrest, and
in 2011 he started to campaign at Middleweight without securing a shot
at world honors.
In
his last outing, this past July, Baldomir made his Super Middleweight
debut with an impressive knockout victory over fellow countryman, and
former Mundo Hispano Champion, Gaston Alejandro Vega. Not known as a
hard puncher, but very much respected for his brilliant boxing
intelligence, it seems that Baldomir is still able to hurt bigger
opponents. And that’s exactly what he plans on doing to Rubio, saying:
“Rubio
can not deal with quality fighters. In Mexico, he's a monster against
bad fighters, but he always crumbles when he faces a fairly good
fighter. Pavlik and Chavez Jr. are good examples. I have no fear of
facing him at his weight. I know that even at 41-years-old and with the
little time I have left boxing, I still have enough of an opportunity to
beat him".
The
Rubio vs. Baldomir WBF World Super Middleweight title fight is a
classic puncher vs. boxer encounter, between a young, albeit
experienced, slugger and an older former world champion looking to get
back on top. It remains to be seen if the power of Rubio will be too
much for Baldomir, or if the Argentinean has too many tricks in the bag
for Rubio to handle.
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