Aside from the big big names and the legends out there like BHop, Toney etc..
Luis Collazo is probably my favourite current fighter, young and in his prime..
And VERY underrated!
His fighting style is awesome, slick, crafty. hungry fighter, can punch harder then his record suggests, just all together smart fighter.
He kind of reminds me of having a james toney like mind set in the ring, because both luis and toney have thier losses on thier records, but neither fighter acts or fights like they ever really lost a fight..
Toney took some bad decision losses and defeated himself in part against roy jones and peter II by not bieng in shape..
and just like toney i feel like luis has never had a loss that should stop him from going on and fighting the best and making the big bucks,
the first loss to cassiani was a premature stoppage.. lou looked buzzed but with lou's style and defensive game he would have made it through and in a fight he was winning could havebeen given more of a chance..
but still.. continued on, kept on winning, in boxing you cant be denied if you keep winning so he takes the short notice welterweight title fight and beats rivera in a tough hard fight and takes the decision..
A nice defence and a very entertaining fight against miguel angel gonzalez after that, its not so much the level of opponent that makes these good fights but the performance he put in, the gonzalez fight was entertaining and solid with no mistakes and a tasty stoppage and you cant ask for too much more then that from a young fighter with a new title..
And still to this day i argue this point.. at the time i liked hatton.. now, really not a fan.. And back then i scored the fight a draw, and i dont count the first round knockdown either, he was off balance and tripped over his feet.. this is more of a win to lou then for hatton cause hatton cant count it after he promised luis a rematch and never gave it to him, But it made a name for an otherwise under promoted collazo..
thats probably the one of the few things i like from don kings promotion..
He gives his fighters dangerous fights but if your a fighter and you overcome the danger and your willing to fight thenames and fight the hardest fighters then its rewarding to show what you are made of.
this is no frank warren shit.. Don king will feed you to the lions, but thats just how you show how good you are, just like trinidad, judah, etc.. you cant complain about the way don promotes cause he gives you the big fights.
and of course we have the mosely loss..
I count this as a test and as something special..
Shane mosely is probably one of the few current great fighters who can still hang at the top level and still have 'it'.. shane mosely still has it, see the way he fights, see him against miguel cotto, ricardo mayorga, still fighting hard and not slipping. And lou fought him with a broken right thumb..
So fighting sugar shane, when your southpaw and with no right hand, no jab, thats pretty tough man.. the thumb injury has been a recurring thing with collazo since his amatuer days too..
He was a great amatuer fighter taking new york golden gloves titles,
He beat (the currently undefeated) Yuri foreman in a golden gloves final which is funny because Luis collazo, gary stark jr and Yuri foreman all trained together and all had thumb problems in the amatuers and the year before lou fought yuri foreman he couldnt compete in the golden gloves because of it..
But anyway, before round 3.. shane wasnt getting to luis and it was highly contested until his thumb broke.. since then, lou has been under promoted in my opinion, hes taken fights so he can remain busy enough, stayed sharp by staying in the gym, he has been in other fighters camps, was paul williams chief sparring partner for the quintana rematch, and hey look how that turned out for williams..lol and no names since mosely but credible opponents he did have lined up dropped out on him so to stay busy he fought the short notice fighters they gave him..
On the Jones-tito card he was to fight jorge linares' brother, an undefeated welterweight and on his brothers name quite interesting to see.. but he gets pulled out on..
They wanted to take the number 2 and number 3 ranked wbc contenders and put them in an eliminator for berto.. Like whaat?! why, luis is number one.. it took a hell of alot of effort to get any decent fights and to get his deserved mandatory shot. so hes going to be hungry on saturday!
Bring it home Lou Collazo!
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