Roman Martinez vs. Juan Carlos Burgos: Fight Time, Date, TV Info and More

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Roman Martinez vs. Juan Carlos Burgos: Fight Time, Date, TV Info and More
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When Roman "Rocky" Martinez (26-1, 16 KOs) defends his WBO Super Featherweight crown against Juan Carlos "Miniburgos" Burgos (30-1, 20 KOs) on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, boxing fans may be treated to a slugfest.
Beyond the normal intrigue from the Puerto Rican (Martinez)-Mexican (Burgos) rivalry in the sport of boxing, these two fighters' styles and hunger levels could make this a classic.
Both men have been impressive since suffering the only defeats of their careers. Rocky is 2-0 since he lost his title to Ricky Burns in September 2010. He regained it with a split-decision victory over Miguel Beltran, Jr. in September 2012.
Burgos has really been on a roll since he lost to Hozumi Hasegawa in November 2010. He has won five fights in a row, and that includes a third-round TKO win over Cesar Vazquez.
The bout is part of a stellar HBO Boxing After Dark card that also features Gennady Golovkin defending his WBA middleweight title against Gabriel Rosado, and Orlando Salido defending his WBO featherweight title against Mikey Garcia.
Here are the specifics for the event, and some deeper analysis into the Martinez-Burgos matchup.

When: Saturday, Jan. 19, 9:45 p.m. ET
Where: Madison Square Garden, New York
TV: HBO

The Book on Martinez
http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/article/media_slots/photos/000/687/218/hi-res-152069187_crop_exact.jpg?w=650&h=440&q=85 Jeff Bottari/Getty Images
Rocky is a relentless, unrefined, crowd-pleasing fighter. I'm running out of adjectives to describe the 29-year-old Puerto Rican champion.
His fights are almost always entertaining, but if you're a Martinez fan, he'll keep you biting your nails. Defensively, he has perplexing lapses as he routinely drops his hands in closed quarters with his opponent.
However, his qualities still allow him to be effective with those flaws.
He's a hard puncher who throws with the intention of leaving a mark with each strike. He also has a remarkable chin. If you need visual evidence to support that, take a look at the video below of Martinez in his only loss to Burns.
video from YouTube, h/t FrankWarren
There is no doubt he absorbed a lot of punishment in that fight, but if you watched the video or saw the fight at another time, you know he delivered his share of pain as well.
Any opponent that climbs into the ring with him will have his mettle tested. Even with those exciting qualities, Martinez may have difficulties solving the long-armed, hard-punching Burgos.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6cVBmMSxDUI#!

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The Book on Burgos
http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/article/media_slots/photos/000/687/225/hi-res-132612973_crop_exact.jpg?w=650&h=440&q=85 Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Miniburgos has improved a great deal since his loss to Hasegawa in 2010. He has gained more confidence in each performance, and that seemed to reach an all-time high in his last fight against Vazquez.
The 25-year-old stopped the previously undefeated Vazquez in the third round. His speed and counter-punching ability really stood out to me in that fight. Check it out below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X1IjirgxdZg

video from YouTube, h/t sweetboxingespn
Burgos showed he could handle himself in a brawl, but he didn't get too reckless. He didn't allow the less-talented fighter to drag him into a fight that put him at a disadvantage.




He will have to employ the same approach against Martinez, but it won't be nearly as easy.
Martinez is a better puncher than Vazquez, more experienced and he has a great chin to fall back on. Utilizing the jab and boxing ability is his best bet, but Martinez has a style that makes it hard to dictate the tempo.

Prediction
This is going to be an action-packed bout, but Burgos will win by decision or a late stoppage. His accuracy and speed will be the difference.
Martinez has a great chance to prove me wrong. If he can get Burgos to lose his composure and mishandle the pressure, he could retain his title.

[Fibroso]

Golovkin defending his WBA middleweight title against Gabriel Rosado

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"King" Gabriel Rosado: Blue-Collar Story, Hungry for Glory

Nothing sticks in the mind like a knockout. Felix Trinidad shoulder bumping William Joppy and then knocking him out in the fifth at the Garden. Sugar Ray Robinson dropping Gene Fullmer with that hook in the fifth. Lennox Lewis-Hasim Rahman II. Mike Tyson in any of his wins. Knockout artists are what boxing fans truly crave if they are at all honest with themselves. But in between the highlights are the grinders, the men who came up in the hardest of ways to keep this “dying sport” alive in the clubs and the smaller venues out east. Men like 27-year-old Gabriel Rosado.

A classic Philadelphia fighter’s fighter, Rosado, 21-5 (13), has learned his craft the hardest way one can. He turned pro at 18 with just 11 amateur fights and 12 fights later, Rosado was matched with the likes of Fernando Guerrero, who competed on a national level as an amateur and is currently poised to challenge for a WBO middleweight title. That was Rosado’s third decision loss.

Two fights later, following a quality win over Kassim Ouma in early 2009, Rosado faced former Olympian Alfredo Angulo and was stopped in two rounds.

But fighters aren’t defined by wins. It’s the losses that show character.

Rosado rebounded with two wins before dropping a disputed decision to Derek Ennis in July of 2010. Since then, Rosado has gone 7-0 (5) against increasingly rough opposition. Last June, he stopped Sechew Powell in nine rounds to capture a top ranking and mandatory position in the WBO junior middleweight rankings. But rather than wait for his title shot at 154, the old-school Rosado decided instead to take a greater challenge and vie for WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s title.

“By me going up in weight to fight ‘GGG’ cost me my ranking. I knew that going in. But I felt that it’s a better challenge and it’s the type of fight where I could make a statement,” Rosado told leaveitintheringradio.com in an interview conducted three weeks out from the fight by me and co-host David Duenez.

Golovkin, 30 years of age with a record of 24-0 (21), might be the puncher boxing has been looking for. His positive demeanor and powerful hands are a franchise K2 Promotions hopes to build, starting this Saturday on HBO at Madison Square Garden in New York City. But Golovkin is a franchise in the making. The risk is there but the reward with the casual fan may not be. And so Golovkin’s team has offered to fight anyone from 154-168, even going so far as to offer catchweight opportunities. Rosado wanted no part of that. If he was going to fight for the middleweight title, he was only going to do it one way.

“I never wanted a catchweight. The fight is for the middleweight title and [the limit] is 160,” said Rosado. “I just wanted to honor the weight class. Me and my trainer just agreed on that. We never wanted the catchweight.”

Even though he is moving up in weight, Rosado is the taller man at 6’ to Golovkin’s 5’10”, which seems taller in person.

“Honestly, I am probably the biggest junior middleweight in the division right now,” said Rosado. “I am strong and I think the extra pounds are going to make me a bigger puncher as well. Everything is going well. Training camp is going well. Sparring is perfect. Right now [three weeks out from the fight], I am 169 solid. I have just a few pounds to lose.”

Golovkin, 30 (with a long amateur pedigree that includes a 2004 Olympic silver medal), is fresh off a September 2012 beating of Grzegorz Proksa in five rounds. Golovkin may be short on pro fights but he has been doing this for a very long time and is likely hitting his peak. Rosado understands this and factors it into his assessment of Golovkin.

“I think he’s a basic guy. I think he’s solid. I think his biggest asset is he packs a good punch,” surmised Rosado. “I definitely see myself as being a lot faster than he is. I think the biggest difference in the fight is the ability to adjust. With ‘GGG,’ I think what you see if what you get. He is going to try and come forward and land that big punch. I can counter. I can box. I can bang. I can resort to a lot of different styles. He just relies on that one thing which is applying pressure. I don’t think it’s going to be an easy fight because he is a strong guy and he is the middleweight champion. He is definitely going to come in but I feel extremely confident that at the end of the night, I will be victorious.”

Golovkin might be guilty of having slow feet but his intelligence and one-punch knockout power coupled with patience and precision make him arguably the division’s most deadly titleholder. Rosado further explained the need for versatility with Golovkin.

“Maybe the jab is not working. Maybe he will take the jab away. I will do something else. If pressure is not working, I can box. I can resort to different things,” he explained. “With ‘GGG,’ I think he is one-dimensional. He can do one thing. It’s a really good dimension though. He’s a solid guy. He can apply pressure and he packs a punch but I can do the same thing. I’ve done that before. I’ve applied pressure to guys and broke them down and knocked them out. Did with [Jesus] Soto Karass, Sechew Powell and Charles Whittaker. I can break guys down. I can do more than one thing to get a win in the fight. He’s going to have to go to the ropes to win this fight and so will I. No one is going to back down. No one is afraid of each other in this fight. I think it’s going to be a matter of who is the smarter man and who makes the adjustments and that’s going to be me.”

Rosado understands his role in this fight. He is there at the Garden to be fed to a lion. But he has a bit of Maximus in him. This is one gladiator who intends to silence the critics and incite the crowd. No one rolled out the red carpet for the man nicknamed “King.” He’s had to crown himself the hardest way possible.

“It motivates me because I put myself into his fight because I want to do what people think I can’t do. I want to prove people wrong. That motivates me, the challenge,” said Rosado. “So I am definitely confident I will beat this guy. I know a lot of people are caught up in the excitement of ‘GGG’ and whatnot. As I a fighter, I understand what it is. I see flaws. I see things that I can capitalize on. Fans look at one thing; fans look at power and they get caught up in that. I come from an old-school background. My trainer is old-school and we work on our craft. We work on rolling shots. We work on countering. We educate ourselves. We don’t just go to the gym. We study film. We educate ourselves on fighting on the outside, fighting on the inside. It’s why I turned my career around. I am a student of the game. I definitely respect the sport and I work on my craft. So at the end of the day, I am going to display that on January 19. People will definitely believe in me after that.”

Rosado has been on a hot streak of late with wins over Jesus Soto Karass (TKO5), Sechew Powell (TKO 9) and Charles Whittaker (TKO 10) in 2012. Rosado could be a more well-oiled machine right now but there has been another change. For the past two fights, fighting has been Rosado’s full-time job for the first time.

“It was a just lot of things. I wasn’t a fighter that came up with a silver spoon. I was a fighter that started late in the sport. At the age of 18, I only had 11 amateur fights. I went pro at 19. I turned 20 the next day. I was pretty much learning on the job against top-notch professionals like Alfredo Angulo and Fernando Guerrero,” said Rosado. “At the same time I was fighting these guys, I was working a job. I have a family, so I was working 10-hour shifts. Getting out of work with no energy and then going to train for a 10, 12-round fight, which is crazy. That’s the type of road that I had in my career. At this point in my career, I have been blessed with fights where I get paid enough where I don’t have to work. I can just train 24/7 and dedicate myself to the sport. I take full advantage of that.

“Fighting Soto Karass, that was the late fight where I had to work a job,” he continued. “So training for Soto Karass, I was actually working a graveyard shift. I did six weeks of training camp working at Home Depot doing the graveyard shift. My boss let me take off the last two weeks of training camp so that was good. Get out of work at six in the morning to run four miles. Then sleep four or five hours, then go to the gym and spar. Then get no rest and go straight to work after the gym.”

“King” Gabriel Rosado is not far removed from working a graveyard shift and training for fights. His hunger is still fresh in his belly. It’s that very hunger that that drives him and every fighter forward. Saturday night might be the beginning of a franchise or it could be one man making the most of the chance his hard work has yielded.

Boxing at its most pure.

“Fighting at the world-class level is difficult. Boxing training alone is tough. Then when you throw a job into it, it’s difficult,” smiled Rosado, “but that’s the road I had and I wouldn’t change a thing because it’s made me the type of fighter I am. It’s made me hungry and it’s made me appreciate training 24/7 and being dedicated to the sport.”

[rudee]

Lets hope Rosado has some Gold Bond in his corner! :tehe:
Looking forward to all these fights... we gotta get back in the swing of
things on the boxing front... NBA and NFL stealing our thunder!!!

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Lets hope Rosado has some Gold Bond in his corner! :tehe:
Looking forward to all these fights... we gotta get back in the swing of
things on the boxing front... NBA and NFL stealing our thunder!!!

I know who he is facing but the kid is going up in weight and like always,I never give my back to my own, I see an upset in the making.........................

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If Salido loses to this young fighter Juanma has a chance to conquer the division. Salido is to Juanma what JMM is to Pac. Rosado and Martinez have a very good chance of winning their bouts, Rosado by boxing around Golovkin counter punching and waiting for the big punch to come. If he lets Golovkin get inside, things can get very difficult for the King. Martinez on the contrary has to come in and pressure the young mexican and try to put him out early in the fight. It will be a good show on HBO tonight.

[rudee]

Quick observations.....
Salido not the same fighter that beat Juanma twice.. got old fast!
and..
Both Puerto Rican fighters took beatings.... Martinez got thoroughly beaten.. Bad judges again.
Rosado had no business in with the European.... shoulda stopped the fight sooner.

[El Chido®]

The European was The Highlight of The Night!!
Salido was nowhere to be found, a Shadow from his previous fight, and IMO, a dirty way to end a Losing fight!
Garcia was way quicker, slicker and more precise in punching accuracy and power, not a Salido Night from the Start!

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One thing is clear, GGG can be beaten, Martinez should go after him now. My paisanos didn't look good at all, could smell superiority all over. The judging again, looks like this can't be dealt with. Overall, we had a fair boxing night to start the 2013. That is including channel 159 boxing show. Sorry rudee, not all the Ricans got beaten, hehehe watch........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GrCE52LqeI&feature=player_embedded

[rudee]

Ha ha ha... yer right Doggie,,,, saw that young whipper snapper knock the guy cold with the left hook...
Was a thing of beauty... He will be heard from... looks good.
Yep.. the judging is ruining the sport... Never seen Max so excited... gotta feel for the Messican... he fought hard.
I do not see much of a future for Rosado though...
How about Ward and the European??? would be a good match up...
The Kazahstan hits hard but CAN be hit!! I did notice that... if Rosado woulda thrown more
punches,, i believe he hurts the Kazah.
A big hitter hurts the K... but the K hits like a mule...
Hat off to Rosado to take that beating and keep coming on... big huevotes on the gent.

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Ha ha ha... yer right Doggie,,,, saw that young whipper snapper knock the guy cold with the left hook...
Was a thing of beauty... He will be heard from... looks good.
Yep.. the judging is ruining the sport... Never seen Max so excited... gotta feel for the Messican... he fought hard.
I do not see much of a future for Rosado though...
How about Ward and the European??? would be a good match up...
The Kazakhstan hits hard but CAN be hit!! I did notice that... if Rosado woulda thrown more
punches,, i believe he hurts the Kazah.
A big hitter hurts the K... but the K hits like a mule...
Hat off to Rosado to take that beating and keep coming on... big huevotes on the gent.
I see Rosado doing a better job in 154 pound division, he's big like the tuna,I mean Trout. Ward, Sergio or maybe Floyd could invade 160 and test his defense against a great puncher. That would quiet down many peeps, don't you think? Also put his undefeated record on the line against a real fighter, mucho money there to give away. Floyd is big enough to handle any one in that weight class. Many experts do think so.


The European was The Highlight of The Night!!

He's Asian, Kazakhstan

[KIDWCKED]

I will say one thing thou...Salido can a take a punch...He's a work horse no doubt...If the accidently head but hadn't a happened it would have went to the cards..Matinez looked sharp...Definately much faster...He was starting to take a few thou in the later rounds...Decent show...

[rudee]

Totally right Kidwcked... i noticed that the Mexican was starting to reach Mikey,,, especially when he would get him on the
ropes.. looked like Mikey was tiring a bit...
Mikey is good, fast and hits hard. But Salido is on his way out! (pardon the pun)
I like Mikey, but I wanna see what would have happened later in the fight.
Salido was definitely gaining momentum.
p.s. Blackie, you are correct about Kazakhstan,, I called it Europe because at one time they were in the old Soviet Union
block... forgetting how close Russia is to Mongolia and China.. Actually, India and Pakistan and a few others around there are considered to be in Asia too. So you would be right to call Ghandi an Asian.
Agreed, Rosado should go back down to 154. The Kazakhstanian hits hard but is stationary... can be had.

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Totally right Kidwcked... i noticed that the Mexican was starting to reach Mikey,,, especially when he would get him on the
ropes.. looked like Mikey was tiring a bit...
Mikey is good, fast and hits hard. But Salido is on his way out! (pardon the pun)
I like Mikey, but I wanna see what would have happened later in the fight.
Salido was definitely gaining momentum.
p.s. Blackie, you are correct about Kazakhstan,, I called it Europe because at one time they were in the old Soviet Union
block... forgetting how close Russia is to Mongolia and China.. Actually, India and Pakistan and a few others around there are considered to be in Asia too. So you would be right to call Ghandi an Asian.
Agreed, Rosado should go back down to 154. The Kazakhstanian hits hard but is stationary... can be had.

That's not the way to take away a belt from a Champ, the rules need to be alter. Salido could've KO Micky in the late rounds.
They took away that chance or maybe his head butt cost him the fight.

rudee, PBF can take on the Asian and win a 12 round unanimous decision. We haven't seen this guy fight 12 rounds yet, he has the power but has he the stamina? You're correct, he can be had. Rosado kind of spoiled the promo for this Guy, showed he needs a bit more to compete with our boxers. Maybe that's why he interrupted the hbo interview to say "This guy is strong, he can hit hard" assuring his payday. hehehe

[rudee]

Agreed,,, the Asian is powerful.. but he got puffed up from the blows he took... he does not
move his head at all.. anyone that can counter hard, can take this guy.
I agree on the salido comment... mikey don't like to be backed up... salido was getting to him.
Mikey was low on fumes.... again, this was not the Salido that beat Juanma... Juanma hit
him harder than Mikey did and he did not go down.... Mikey gave Salido a dirty look
and Salido's legs wobbled...

[Fibroso]

Agreed,,, the Asian is powerful.. but he got puffed up from the blows he took... he does not
move his head at all.. anyone that can counter hard, can take this guy.
I agree on the salido comment... mikey don't like to be backed up... salido was getting to him.
Mikey was low on fumes.... again, this was not the Salido that beat Juanma... Juanma hit
him harder than Mikey did and he did not go down.... Mikey gave Salido a dirty look
and Salido's legs wobbled...

So that means that Floyd can take this guy and eat him up. He was willing to fight at 154,sure he is looking for a payday to build his mom a new house. They offered Rosado a catch weight at 158, Floyd can take that if the money is good. Lets hope for this one, what is your opinion ...............

[rudee]

Well to be honest,, i have not seen the Asian fight before... I saw the tape and this fight with Rosado..
And of course Rosado was clearly overmatched... doubt very much Floyd would be a punching bag for
the Asian.. he would move and counter.. But,,, if this guy hit Floyd he would hurt Floyd. This guy hits
harder than Miguel and Miguel hurt Floyd.
This guy is young and hits like a mule..
The old Floyd would probably box his ears off... but I just dont see much of Floyd anymore.. plus he did not
look that invincible to me vs. Miguel..
Would be tough to pick a winner right now Blackie. Course if i had to put my pink slip on it I would pick Floyd.