Jaime Munguia’s choice to struggle 4 occasions in 2024 could have price him along with his sixth-round knockout loss to Bruno Surace final Saturday night time on the Estadio Caliente in Tijuana, Mexico. This was an ideal instance of a cherry-pick gone fallacious.
Overconfidence
The previous tremendous middleweight world title challenger Munguia (44-2, 35 KOs) received grasping, selecting to squeeze a fourth struggle on this yr, and the unranked, little-known Surace (26-0-2, 5 KOs) took benefit of that by knocking out the Mexican fighter in entrance of his followers in Tijuana. This was presupposed to have fun Munguia, however what an utter catastrophe.
Munguia appeared heavier than typical contained in the ring, showing like he hadn’t educated as onerous as in his earlier fights this yr towards Erik Bazinyan, Canelo Alvarez, and John Ryder. Clearly, Jaime took it without any consideration that he was going to defeat Surace with no issues, however man, he was fallacious.
You could possibly see that Surace was going to be an issue early on after he was dropped within the second spherical. The Frenchman received up and landed a lightning-fast proper to the top of Munguia that was like, ‘Wow, the place did that come from?’ Nobody within the 168-lb division throws punches like Surace, and Munguia wasn’t seeing the right-hand photographs that he was throwing.
The one cause the struggle didn’t finish earlier is as a result of Bruno, 26, wasn’t letting his arms go. He was principally defending all of the incoming from Jaime, which was comprehensible. Munguia was exhibiting no respect for Surace contained in the ring, throwing combos and seeking to impress the Mexican followers with a quick knockout.
Bruno Surace: “I do know that he’s a superb boxer. So, we labored on our counter punches,” Surace mentioned. “He’s a real warrior. I wish to thank him for the chance. This was an enormous expertise for me. Middleweight is my true weight class. However we’ll see if [a second fight against Munguia] can occur.”
A Hype Job?
It will be a foul thought for Munguia’s Prime Rank promoters to arrange a rematch with Surace. In a second struggle, this good man will counter him into oblivion, and Munguia isn’t ok to beat him.
If Jaime possessed precise capability, they might put him in with Surace once more and count on him to avenge his loss. The Mexican fighter Munguia can’t do this. He was all the time protected throughout his 11-year profession. Munguia’s profession would evaporate if he fought Surace once more as a result of he’d possible lose. The Frenchman is smarter than him and can rating one other KO.
Munguia has all the time been a hype job. He was by no means put in with the killers in any of the three divisions he’s competed in, from 154 to 168. When he did get the Canelo struggle, he misplaced. He and Edgar Berlanga are the identical kind of fighters with manufactured data. It was only a sham.
This defeat places Munguia’s profession in a foul place; he can’t afford one other loss. His promoters at Prime Rank might want to rebuild him, however they need to accomplish that in a method that matches him towards notable opposition.
Hardcore boxing followers have already perceived Munguia as a hype job from day one. He was purposefully matched towards tomato cans his complete profession to get a big-money struggle towards Canelo Alvarez. Now that Munguia lastly fulfilled his goal of getting that mega-payday struggle towards Alvarez on Might 4th earlier this yr, his promoters are caught with a badly flawed man who nonetheless must be protected simply as he all the time was.
What’s Subsequent?
– Trevor McCumby
– Edgar Berlanga
– Jermall Charlo
– Bektemir Melikuziev
Jaime Munguia shall be again 🇲🇽🙏 pic.twitter.com/jur4ltbZCu
— Prime Rank Boxing (@trboxing) December 15, 2024
Unreal end in slow-mo 😳 #MunguiaSurace pic.twitter.com/2bE9JOTF6E
— Prime Rank Boxing (@trboxing) December 15, 2024
