From post fight presscon:
Juan Manuel Lopez: Penalosa is a very tough fighter as I fully expected him to be. This was a very hard earned victory. My promoters will decide what is next for me and I will be ready for whoever they put in front of me.
Gerry Penalosa: I gave my absolute best tonight. Lopez was the better man tonight and I congratulate him.
Freddie Roach: I thought Lopez would slow down after the 4th round since he threw so many punches but he didn’t. I had told Gerry going into the 9th round that if he wasn’t able to hurt Lopez then I was going to stop the fight because he needed to hurt him or knock Lopez out at that point. Lopez I think is the best fighter at 122 pounds.
gerry got his ass kicked he was game and landed shots enough to bring down a good fighter but juanma just marched on.
gerry has nothing in his arsenal to put down juanma in the last few rounds remaining.
good call from roach a well deserved win for juanma and for gerry im sad he lost but he is one tough mofo!
yea other priorities like starting a million threads on how Penalosa was going to destroy Lopez, he didn't even put a dent on him, i always knew Gerry was gonna be tough and was always sticking to my guns saying it was gonna be Juanma's toughesst fight, and honestly if Roach wouldn't of stopped it, Lopez wouldn't have been able to stop Penalosa, he just would have won a shutout UD, but then again you even knew Penalosa had no chance in hell, hence you chickening out of the sig bet
well that yea, but you know that there will be very few if any Phillipine flags around lol Killa still hasn't shown his face around here lol
To be fair Killa from Manilla couldn't show up even if he wanted too
Lopez beats them all at 122![]()
Are you sure Peñalosa was not able to put a dent on JuanMa?? Maybe physically but mentally JuanMa was sort of taken to deep waters... Why did JuanMa asked his corner in the 7th or 8th round "Are we winning?" How many times JuanMa was stretched to reach 9 rounds? JuanMa started to doubt himself when he threw everything he could including the kitchen sink and this guy Peñalosa was still standing...
Are you really that bitter that I smartly rejected your bet offer?You can't nail me, not on this fight...
Then after the fight, you're looking for me as if I need to pay you something... I really don't need to show up here after the Peñalosa-JuanMa fight coz I didn't owe anyone anything for this fight...
Penalosa was a tough as he could possibly get at thirty seven. Had it been anyone but had it been some other fighter he might have had a chance. The problem was, Lopez was younger and much more talented than he could imagine. Lopez was not lacking in experience because he had more tricks up his sleeve that a hairy man has hair. Mr. Lopez is under construction which means that anyone approaching him in this division had better be prepared to make plans for when he is going to start eating solid foods some time after their fight is over. He is that latest missile to be launched out of Puerto Rico.
I was hoping that Juanma would run of gas. But the kid is a machine. He's a fooking animal! I can see him beating Izzy, Rafa, and Caballero. Darchinyan better not climb up there and make the same mistake like Gerry did.
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