Gerry "FEARLESS" Peñalosa wants to fight JuanMa Lopez on Dec. 6 Hoya-PAC card

[XaduBoxer]

Doesn't really matter Penalosa loses to both Mares and Lopez

Peñalosa is not afraid of any young, powerful punchers around his division...
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Good for him. Doesn't mean he beats them

Living up to his monicker... "FEARLESS"...
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[James_Teja]

Penalosa is excellent fighting leftys. But Juanma aint a natural southpaw though. His money punch is his right hand.

It should be interesting.

[XaduBoxer]

Gerry Penalosa Tells Juan Manuel Lopez To Stop Hiding

Perhaps learning from celebrated trainer Freddie Roach’s needling of Oscar De La Hoya who, after some pondering decided to take the fight against Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao despite criticism for picking on a much smaller fighter, Gerry Penalosa is using the same tactic to try and draw WBO super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez into a title showdown.

In an interview with insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports after his featherweight protégé Michael Farenasdisposed of a Thai patsy in 78 seconds last Saturday at a packed Mandaluyong City Gym, Penalosa said “I want Juanma. No other than Juanma.”

Picking up the tempo of his rhetoric the WBO bantamweight champion challenged Lopez, the Puerto Rican sensation to “stop hiding. I want to fight you.”Lopez has a record of 23-0 with 21 knockouts and won the title via a stunning first round KO of Daniel Ponce De Leon.

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Juanma Lopez Not Interested in a Gerry Penalosa Bout

WBO bantamweight champion Gerry Penalosa’s bravado in challenging Puerto Rican sensation Juan Manuel Lopez, the reigning WBO super bantamweight champion to “stop hiding” and to fight him hasn’t apparently worked.

Penalosa’s manager Billy Keane in an overseas telephone conversation with insidesports.ph, Manila Standard and Viva Sports said “Juanma turned the fight down.”

Keane said that Top Rank promoter Bob Arum “doesn’t want to do the fight” on the undercard of the “Dream Match” between Filipino ring idol Manny Pacquiao and “The Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya.

Keane believes that as far as the promoters are concerned there is “no need to put another Filipino on the fight card” He pointed out that “every Filipino is going to buy because of Manny and every Mexican is going to buy because of Oscar.”


Is JuanMa avoiding Penalosa? This should have been a good fight. Bantamweight champ versus the super bantam champ. Experience vs. youth...
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[holmcall]

Juanma ices him inside 5!

[XaduBoxer]

JuanMa said that Gerry prices himself out and if they fight he will KO Gerry... What a shame, should have been a good undercard to Hoya-PAC... JuanMa now possibly face Sergio Medina instead...

[SweetPea]

Not sure if this fight will come together, but I think it is important for GB/TR to put together a real undercard.

Golden Boy dropped the ball big time when they put together that horrible undercard for Floyd-Oscar. When you have more fans tuning in than usual, you need to put together a better-than-usual undercard to make them want to keep ordering PPVs in the future.

[XaduBoxer]

I heavily favor a JuanMa-Penalosa fight over JuanMa-Sergio Medina fight... I hope they can offer both JuanMa and Penalosa some decent purses that's acceptable to both...

[KKisser]

I think Peñalosa is just returning the favor to Team Nacho Beristain... Gerry was calling out Rafael Marquez since November 2004 but Team Nacho didn't entertained him... Now one of Nacho's boys (Mares) trying to get a fight against Gerry but maybe he remembered how Team Nacho responded to his challenge to Rafa before...

Anyway, props to Peñalosa for seeking bigger challenges...
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I don't think a veteran like Penalosa would turn down big money on the Dec 6th card just to get back at somebody. He's pretty much just hurting himself. I think Mares youth and like they said hand speed were most likely the reasons why

Super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez is a bigger challenge than bantamweight prospect Abner Mares...

No way Peñalosa is avoiding Mares because of Mares' great handspeed ... Peñalosa not getting Mares will not hurt him if he gets the JuanMa Lopez fight on Dec. 6...
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this is what i read:

His (gerry's) scheduled mandatory defense against Abner Mares also had to be called off because Mares has to undergo surgery for a detatched retina and would be out for several months.

PE�ALOSA WOULD DESTROY JUANMA!!!

anyway, i think penalosa would be juanma's biggest challenge to date if this comes off. i don't see gerry getting stopped though but losing by decision. gerry has a shot though like what happened with the gonzales fight.