Thursday night's, or Wednesday's early morning, title fight was a good appetizer to start off the EVENT this weekend.
Panama's Celestino Caballero successfully defended his WBA Super Bantamweight and IBF Junior Featherweight titles against Jeffrey Mathebula of South Africa via a split decision. I've not seen Mathebula before and never thought that he will be a threat. But, after watching this fight, he is not a bad challenger after all and made it quite interesting. Caballero was at the wrong end of the ring in the mid to late rounds as Mathebula was more aggressive than Caballero. I thought at that point that Mathebula might upset Caballero. Overall, though, Caballero did enough to retain his titles. I'm not sure if he's due to fulfill his WBA mandatory soon. If that's the case, up next for him will be against the interim titleholder Ireland's Bernard Dunne who won a barnburner against Ricardo Cordoba late March. Otherwise, a unification against Juan Manuel Lopez will be a fight to look forward to. By the way, I caught the fight on tvnlive's streaming video. The undercards seem to not end and the main event started just before 1 am when I was close to giving up. Glad I did not. Boxing Scene; Fight News
Prediction Result:
Underestimated Mathebula but still got the winner right.
My record is up to 24-3 and a draw.
Tally remains as the champ retained.
Panama's Celestino Caballero successfully defended his WBA Super Bantamweight and IBF Junior Featherweight titles against Jeffrey Mathebula of South Africa via a split decision. I've not seen Mathebula before and never thought that he will be a threat. But, after watching this fight, he is not a bad challenger after all and made it quite interesting. Caballero was at the wrong end of the ring in the mid to late rounds as Mathebula was more aggressive than Caballero. I thought at that point that Mathebula might upset Caballero. Overall, though, Caballero did enough to retain his titles. I'm not sure if he's due to fulfill his WBA mandatory soon. If that's the case, up next for him will be against the interim titleholder Ireland's Bernard Dunne who won a barnburner against Ricardo Cordoba late March. Otherwise, a unification against Juan Manuel Lopez will be a fight to look forward to. By the way, I caught the fight on tvnlive's streaming video. The undercards seem to not end and the main event started just before 1 am when I was close to giving up. Glad I did not. Boxing Scene; Fight News
Prediction Result:
Underestimated Mathebula but still got the winner right.
My record is up to 24-3 and a draw.
Tally remains as the champ retained.
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