{"id":12605,"date":"2011-07-08T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2011-07-08T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:30:00","slug":"kermit-cintron-returns-to-the-ring-july-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12605","title":{"rendered":"Kermit Cintron Returns to the Ring July 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KOs), of Carolina, Puerto Rico, will mark his return to the SHOWTIME airwaves while Carlos Molina of Chicago will make his network debut when they meet this Saturday, July 9, in the co-feature on SHOWTIME\u00ae (10 p.m. ET\/PT, delayed on the West Coast) at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.<\/p>\n

Just one week before the 10th anniversary of ShoBox: The New Generation, Cintron, who fought three times on ShoBox from 2001 to 2002 including the series\u2019 third telecast, will take on Molina in a 10-round junior middleweight tilt. Following that, Brandon \u201cBam Bam\u201d Rios (27-0-1, 19 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., and two-time world title challenger Urbano Antillon (28-2, 20 KOs), of Maywood, Calif., tangle for the World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight championship in the Top Rank-promoted main event on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING.<\/p>\n

Cintron, Molina and two up-and-coming Top Rank fighters worked out for the media on Thursday at Fortune Gym in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

The telecast also will include highlights from overseas as IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (28-0, 23 KOs) defends his title for an eighth time \u2013 but first in his home country of Romania \u2013 against mandatory challenger Jean-Paul Mendy (29-0-1, 16 KOs) of France.<\/p>\n

Tickets, priced at $125, $75, $50 and $25, are available at all Ticketmaster outlets and online at www.Ticketmaster.com as well as The Home Depot Center Box Office (Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). Suites are available by calling (877) 604-8777.<\/p>\n

KERMIT CINTRON<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling really light right now which is different than I have for my last couple of fights. It\u2019s been great to have Mike Lee down in Houston with us fulltime and training with Ronnie (Shields).<\/p>\n

\u201cI sparred with Carlos five years ago but none of that matters now. I know he\u2019s gotten better but I just look at him like just another opponent. When you\u2019re a boxer you have to be ready to go in there with anyone and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I will be victorious come Saturday night. I\u2019ve never had more confidence than I do now. It does feel like it\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve been in the ring but I\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

CARLOS MOLINA<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is good and everything is in order. Now it\u2019s just time to weigh in and then it\u2019s fight time. This is the biggest fight of my career and my first time on SHOWTIME. I mean, you always want to do good but this is SHOWTIME so you want to perform and put on a good show even more.<\/p>\n

On Cintron returning to the Home Depot Center where he fell out of the ring a year ago: \u201cAs boxers we put everything out of our minds. If it does bother him, I\u2019ll take advantage of it. But I really don\u2019t think it will and shouldn\u2019t be an issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Kermit and the way he likes to fight. It has been a long time since we sparred but we know each others\u2019 styles and what we both want to do in there. It should be very interesting to see how it plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n

MIKE LEE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lee (5-0, 3 KOs) is the Notre Dame champion who faces Michael Birthmark (2-5, 0 KOs) in a four-round light heavyweight matchup on the undercard Saturday:<\/p>\n

\u201cI just can\u2019t wait to get in there and show people how much better I\u2019ve gotten since my last fight. For my last fight I just felt heavier. Now, I\u2019ve built more muscle and just feel so much stronger.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really been like a big family joining (trainer) Ronnie (Shields) and the guys in Houston. I used to just bully guys. Now, I feel like a boxer. I\u2019ve been working on my defense and watching tape of some of Ronnie\u2019s older fighters and it\u2019s really helped me.\u201d<\/p>\n

MATT KOROBOV<\/strong><\/p>\n

Korobov (15-0, 9 KOs) from Orotukan, Russia, will take on Lester Gonzalez (12-3-2, 6 KOs) from San Diego in a middleweight undercard fight on Saturday:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my third fight this year and we\u2019re right on schedule. We\u2019re ready to go. The middleweights need an exciting fighter like me. I don\u2019t even know where I\u2019m ranked. I\u2019m just so focused on Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KOs), of Carolina, Puerto Rico, will mark his return to the SHOWTIME airwaves while Carlos Molina of Chicago will make his network debut when they meet this Saturday, July 9, in the co-feature on SHOWTIME\u00ae (10 p.m. ET\/PT, delayed on the West Coast) at The Home Depot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,428],"class_list":["post-12605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-kermit-cintron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}