JOHNREIL CASIMERO DEFENDS INTERIM TITLE IN MEXICO TOMORROW
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 24 Jul 2010
Promising 20 year old Johnreil Casimero, after several postponements and the scrapping of an earlier publicly announced title fight against WBO light flyweight champion Ivan Calderon, will finally defend his Interim title against Ramon Garcia Hirales in Sinaloa, Mexico on Sunday, Manila Time.
Casimero who is undefeated in 14 fights with 8 knockouts won the interim title with an impressive 11th round TKO over highly fancied Cesar Cancilla of Colombia on December 19, 2009.
After Calderon announced that he would defend his title against Casimero at Madison Square Garden on June 12 the title fight was called off and the Puerto Rican defended his crown against Mexico?s Jesus Iribe who had earlier lost to then IBF champion Brian Viloria.
It was then announced that Casimero would face Garcia on the undercard at MSG in New York but that was also scrapped and the Filipino will now face Garcia in his hometown of Mexico.
Garcia is the brother of former IBF minimum weight champion Raul ?Rayito? Garcia who won the title with a somewhat controversial split decision over Florante Condes in La Paz, Mexico on June 14, 2008.
Ramon Garcia Hirales has a record of 12-1-1 with 8 knockouts. The 27 year old won the vacant WBC International title with a twelve round unanimous decision over Jose Luis Varela on May 20, 2009 and scored a 6th round TKO over Luis Alberto Zarraga on August 29, 2009.
In his last fight Garcia Hirales won by a 2nd round TKO over Michael Arango on February 13, 2010.
In the undercard veteran Federico Catubay who has an unimpressive record of 25-16-3 with 13 knockouts and has lost 8 of his fights also by knockouts takes on young super flyweight Rodrigo Guerrero (13-2-1, 9 KO?s) who is coming off a gallant effort against WBC/WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan who is also the IBO bantamweight champion.
Catubay who is known for his ugly wild-swinging style lost a 12 round unanimous decision to Juan Alberto Rosas at the Mandalay Bay House of Blues in an IBF super flyweight eliminator on November 13, 2009 is inexplicably figuring in another IBF super flyweight title eliminator against Guerrero.
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