Thank You Gerry

[OumaFan]

Penalosa beat Ponce, no doubt in my mind. Its not all about just throwing punches, landing clean hard punches is supposed to be fairly important.

[Spicoli]

Gerry boxed the piss outta Ponce. For christ sakes man.

[skel1983]

Good for him, great fighter and good for the sport, I remember Roach advising him to quit a couple of years back saying he is worried for his health in later life, but he was sad to see him not take his advice and carry on, but he had a good career.

[KananKrus]

As good as he is inside the ring, he is even better outside of it. Gerry Penalosa is a great character and a great individual and definitely a credit to the sport of boxing. In your own way, you have enriched the sport of boxing.

Thanks Gerry Penalosa for all the years of dedication that you've given the sport... you are a great champ!

[miron_lang]

Veteran fighters are fed to the young up and coming stars. But Gerry was able to at least get the respect of JuanMa who at latter rounds asked his corner "Are we winning?"
despite the fact that he out landed Penalosa all throughout. What made him thinking was due to penalosa landing some shots of his own. JuanMa was on a 3 fight 1st round KO streak. he landed everything on Gerry but Gerry kept on coming.

The fight againts Injo Cho and Tokuyama are worse than DeLeon, Morrel. If you could win on a judge's scorecard in Korea that means you've won the fight.

2 Division Champion just like his brother Dodie boy. He could have achieved more if he had added a seek and destroy style and better work rate.

He was trained by Freddie Roach before Manny met Freddie and he was a Champion at a time Luisito Espinosa was still holding the Featherweight title w/c Luisito defended 7 times.


Thanks Gerry!

[Spicoli]

What happened to muchmascaras

[ElTerribleMorales]

What happened to muchmascaras

guess he finally got himself banned again, all i gotta say is, OH HAPPY DAAAAY!

[Spicoli]

What happened to muchmascaras

guess he finally got himself banned again, all i gotta say is, OH HAPPY DAAAAY!

If at first you don't succeed.....flush tiwce

[KananKrus]

Excerpts from Dan Rafael Blog, ESPN Boxing:

"Best of luck to the Philippines' Gerry Penalosa in retirement. Following a fourth-round knockout in his home country against Yodsaenkeng Kietmangmee on Sunday, Penalosa, 38, announced his retirement. Penalosa (55-8-2, 37 KOs) won two world titles at junior bantamweight and bantamweight in a distinguished 21-year pro career and he has one of the greatest chins I've ever seen. The only time he was ever stopped in his 65-fight career came in fight No. 63, when trainer Freddie Roach pulled him out of a junior featherweight title fight after the ninth round against young gun Juan Manuel Lopez. Although it was a humane stoppage by Roach, I dare say Penalosa would have made it to the final bell. He lost some controversial decisions during his heyday, but it doesn't change the fact that Penalosa was a damn good fighter and a little guy with a huge heart".

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Boxing Hall of Fame ballot light on newcomers - ESPN